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In brief
Expert opinion
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Four norms

The UN experts' network SDSN demands global goals for sustainable development

High-Level Panel report
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

New partnership

High-Level Panel calls for new global UN development agenda and an end to poverty by 2030

Print edition

Contents May issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of May's print edition with links to all contributions

Print edition

Contents June issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of June's print edition with links to all contributions

Renewables
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Powering the transition

Supposedly green energy technologies can have detrimental side effects that need to be addressed

Civil society
Mareike Forchheim

Mutual understanding

More exchange in academia, the arts and sports might boost mutual understanding among Iran and the west

Technology
Eva-Maria Verfürth

African innovation hubs

African IT centres and business incubators are spawning fast

Raising awareness
Mareike Forchheim

Joy of life – and refugees

ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL helps to promote large-scale intercultural dialogue in Germany

Economic policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Stuck in informal employment

Prominent Indian economists emphasise indispensability of growth in new book on development policy

Agriculture
Floreana Miesen

Valuable farmland

IFPRI and ZEF: The politics and economics of land degradation

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”

Sustainability

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

Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”