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The solar plant in Boundiali is considered a lighthouse project in West Africa and promotes the ambitious climate goals of Côte d’Ivoire.

KfW

Solar modules gleam in the bright African sun

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by Michael Ruffert
Their personal carbon footprints are certainly larger than the 13 tons Russians and the 8.9 tons the Chinese emit annually on average: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing in October.

Climate negotiations

Once again, climate-summit results are “too little, too late”

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by Hans Dembowski
Wind power is one of the key components in the construction of the Power-to-X reference facility

KfW

Reach climate goals with Power-to-X

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by Elisabeth Ehrhorn
Global needs exceed available resources: displaced people in Yemen.

Development financing

Wrong priorities in Germany’s federal budget

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by Åsa Månsson
by Lukas Goltermann
Development Minister Schulze with (from right) Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and Minister of Infrastructure and Municipalities, and Maksym Marchenko, Odessa Regional Governor, in front of a bombed-out substation near Odessa.

KfW

“Expansion of renewables offers enormous employment potential”

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by Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze
by Michael Ruffert
The global energy transition can only succeed in a socially just and sustainable manner.

KfW

Rapid further expansion of renewable energy

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by Christiane Laibach
World Bank President Ajay Banga speaking at the financial institution’s annual meeting in Marrakesh in October.

Our View

Close funding gaps

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by Jörg Döbereiner
The debt has become unsustainable: President Hakainde Hichilema (3rd from right) visits Chinese-financed water infrastructure in Lusaka Province in July 2022.

Regional integration

Why Zambia needs the AfCFTA

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by Beaulah N. Chombo
President Lula da Silva at this year’s G20 summit in New Delhi.

G20

Social presidency in difficult times

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by Luiz Ramalho
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