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Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

The two pieces of good news this month are about Bhutan’s way to become the first country in the world that is carbon negative, and about Vietnam’s new comprehensive AI law.

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The logo of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: In Germany, sustainability is often used to refer to ecological issues.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The SDG’s core vision: an opportunity for development cooperation

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by Estelle Herlyn
Investments in companies that supply underserved populations with essential goods such as food are a form of impact investing.

Impact investing

How to convince rich people to use their money for good

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by Nico Blaauw
Distribution of improved cooking devices in Rwanda: funds are allocated to projects such as this one under the contribution-claim model.

Contribution-claim approach

How companies can contribute to climate justice voluntarily

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by Lukas Küsters
by Kirsten Gade
Climate protests by Fridays for Future in Rome in April.

Climate activism

“The climate movement is much less naive now”

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by Linus Steinmetz
by Jörg Döbereiner
Textile workers protest in Dhaka, demanding payment of their wages before the Eid holidays.

Sustainable supply chains

“The law would be gutted before it even came into force”

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by Armin Paasch
by Leon Kirschgens
Donald Trump and Elon Musk in front of the White House in March – a textbook example of the merging of power and wealth.

Poverty reduction

Time to set a limit on extreme wealth

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by Olivier De Schutter
Eva-Maria Verfürth and Hans Dembowski.

On our own behalf

Our editor-in-chief says goodbye

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by Hans Dembowski
Herbicide application on a German field.

Harmful practices

Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

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by Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert
Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 in Rom.

Migration

Belonging to more than one nation

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by Maren van Treel
Woman feeding buffaloes, which are relevant for natural farming, in a village in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Healthy diets

Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

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by Sunita Narain
by Hans Dembowski