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In 2025, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Reem Alabali Radovan, visited the municipal groundwater source in Amman together with Jihad Al-Mahamid, Secretary-General of Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

International cooperation

An investment in water is an investment in security

Clean water is becoming increasingly scarce worldwide, which heightens the risk of supply crises and conflicts over its distribution. How German development cooperation is helping to improve water security in countries such as Iraq and Jordan.

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by Reem Alabali Radovan

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The German broadcaster DW designed an app to circumvent digital censorship.

Good News

Kenya as a pioneer of clean energy and a German app designed to circumvent censorship

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by D+C / E+Z
There have already been two landslides this year at Rubaya, the largest coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, each claiming several hundred lives.

Mining

How to limit hazards of energy transition

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by Hans Dembowski

Our view

Why we need to tell different start-up stories

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

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

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by D+C / E+Z
Good repairability can significantly extend the lifespan of a smartphone.

Technology

Why “fair” smartphones should become the new standard

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by Viktor Schödwell
The world is rich in mineral resources – yet the profits are unevenly distributed.

Mining

Rare earths and other critical minerals – an overview

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by D+C / E+Z
The Goldman Environmental Prize this year has gone exclusively to women.

Good News

Recognition of Afghan women’s football team and prize for female environmental activists

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by D+C / E+Z
Xiomara Acevedo (white blouse, hair down) at the TAFF conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, in April.

Climate action

“We don’t want another endless process without real implementation”

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by Xiomara Acevedo Navarro
by Leon Kirschgens
There can be no energy transition without batteries, and when it comes to the battery industry, there is no getting around China: wind turbines in China’s Jiangxi Province.

Just Transition

High ambition: jointly improving the battery industry

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by Inga Petersen
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies has an explicit focus on sustainability.

Good News

Successful activism and WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

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by D+C / E+Z