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Energy transition

The windy islands

Toni Kaatz-Dubberke: Cape Verde is well on its way to a self-sufficient power supply with renewable energy

Sustainable Development Goals
Tetsuro Yoshida
Noriko Shimizu

The global dimension

Japanese scholars say international community must support shift to renewable energy in the developing world

Review essay
Achim Neumann

Germany is not alone

Relevant reading on the transition to renewable energy

Market analysis
Marlis Kees

Measuring sustainability

GIZ has developed a method to assess the market potential of fuel-efficient cookers

Renewables
Do Thi Bich Ngoc

Rural network must improve

Vietnam has ambitious objectives of using up to 30 % of renewable energy until 2030. For this it needs donor help

West Africa
Karim Okanla

Insufficient fire wood

Benin’s energy supply depends on fire wood – and smuggled petrol from Nigeria

Subsidies
Anthony J. Jude

Counter-productive policy

ADB expert spells out why subsidies for fossil fuels are bad policy

Burundi
Gesine Ames
Jean-Marie Vianney ­Kavumbagu

The acid test

Burundi’s fragile peace in the balance ahead of the 2015 elections

Peacebuilding
Anne Niyuhire

Great achievement

In Burundi, women’s organisations want to see enforced a constitutional quota for female leaders at all levels of government

Civil-society organisation
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières

Depending on livestock

The mission of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany

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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”