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Umweltproblematik
Blog
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

How the climate crisis is slowing down the world economy

Global environmental change is a cause of investors’ much bemoaned uncertainty

IPCC Special Report
Floreana Miesen

Sounding the alarm

IPCC report paints a bleak picture of the state of the world’s oceans

Poverty
Katie Cashman

Urban food insecurity

Urban hunger is an under-rated problem, for example in Nairobi

Municipal governance
Katie Cashman

Farming in the metropolis

Low-income Nairobians mitigate hunger and malnutrition by growing their own food

Our view
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Indispensable transformation

Global agriculture must become climate-neutral

Climate science
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Tell it like it is

Denialists are questioning sciences, but scholars all over the world fight back

Climate protests
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why civil disobedience is inherently non-authoritarian

So far Extinction Rebellion seems to be living up to non-violence principles

Human civilisation
Heide Hackmann
Dirk Messner

Why we need a UN charter

What needs to be done so digitalisation will drive, not thwart the transformation to sustainability

Rainforest
Carmen Josse

Amazon region in danger

The fires in the Amazon region have drawn global attention to this endangered ecosystem

IPCC special report
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Destructive land-use

IPCC assesses how climate change and land use patterns are interlinked

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts