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Umweltproblematik
Health

Cooking stoves kill

Over 7 million deaths annually are caused by air pollution, according to the World Health Organisation

Agriculture

Fire farming

Small farmers in southern Africa cannot make a living from their inefficient slash-and-burn agriculture

Environment

Urgent need for action

IPCC says that climate change can be mitigated, and warns that action must be taken fast

Twin cities

Tackling climate issues

Local governments in Germany draft and implement climate policies with twin cities in the Global South

Human rights

Clean conscience

Civil-society activists promote socially and environmentally sound IT procurement

PEGNet

Sustainable and socially committed

Unless rising middle classes change their attitudes, sustainable develolpment will prove impossible

Nowadays

Eco-tourism helps community

A village in Guatemala invites eco-tourists to its river in order to boost its municipal budget

Municipal climate partnership

Renewable energy for Nicaragua

Bielefeld is supporting climate-relevant projects in its Nicaraguan twin city Estelí

Climate finance

Raising additional investment capital

Innovative Danish approach to mobilising private capital for climate-related investments in the developing world

Technological choices

The downsides of green growth

Why naïve green-growth strategies can lead to failure

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Sustainability

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