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Umweltproblematik
Our view

The crucial development challenge

To achieve the SDGs, humankind needs strong and competent institutions at national as well as supranational levels

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

When people are displaced to make room for large-scale development projects, the trauma and impoverishment are real and long-lasting

Global trends

In urgent need of development

If Africa is not to fall behind further, the continent must develop fast

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

For environmental reasons, western Europe and North America cannot be models of development

Fire hazards

Up in flames

Zambian poor are increasingly subject to fire hazards from charcoal and firewood they use for heating and cooking

Infrastructure

Build back better

IEA wants stimulus money to drive climate protection

Summer Special

The shattered soul of Mauritius

In his latest novel, J. M. G. Le Clézio searches once again for a lost paradise

Summer Special

Kolkata, New York, Venice

Amitav Ghosh’s novel “Gun island” deals with global heating and global migration

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

UNDP chief explains how the concepts of “human development” and “sustainable development” are converging

Indoor air pollution

Clearing the air

Indoor air pollution from cooking with biomass continues to increase the vulnerability of India’s poor to respiratory diseases and Covid-19

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.