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Climate finance
Morten Elkjær
Niels Egerup

Raising additional investment capital

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

Arabic language
Charlotte Schmitz
Guido Zebisch

A better understanding

Why Modern Standard Arabic needs to be updated – in particular in regard to technology

Technological choices
Ian Christoplos

The downsides of green growth

Why naïve green-growth strategies can lead to failure

Lessons of the past
Ronald Mangani

Unconditional support

Why support for adapting to climate change must be unconditional

Infrastructure
Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann

Controversial undertakings

Large-scale projects for diverting water often cause more trouble than they deliver benefits

Peace
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

The difficult road to reconciliation

The outbreak of violence puts the new state of South Sudan in danger

Communication technology
Monika Hellstern

Job-hunting and prenatal classes in Ghana

Digital services are improving poor people’s standard of life in Ghana

Global public goods
Mathieu Régnier

The web of life

Biodiversity is eroding – and the impacts on human health are not understood

Banking
Kilasa Mtambalike

Money flows with M-Pesa

Financial transactions by mobile phone have radically changed African economies

Social media
Aya Chebbi

Not as soft as jasmine

Social media did not topple Tunisia's dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali – but they served the purpose

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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.

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
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

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
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