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Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Climate change deserves top-level attention

El Niño aggravated heat and drought this year

Political environment
Christoph Kannengießer

Stability promotes economic development

Upswing requires the right environment in a developing country

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Climate change remains a burning issue

Humankind’s most daunting challenge

Urbanisation
Ellen Thalman

“Can a city be sustainable?”

The “New Urban Agenda” will set a global urbanisation strategy for the next two decades

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Foreign policy, cooperation and the ecology

Brexit and the global commons

United Nations
Priya Behrens-Shah

Mere exchange or real change?

World Humanitarian Summit was a good start, much more needs to happen

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Southeast Asia is suffering the worst drought in decades

Poor rains mean rice price is set to rise

Marine ecology
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Saving the seas

New action plan for better protection of the world’s oceans

Global governance
Nannette Lindenberg

Coordinating the willing

How international financial institutions must contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Global affairs
Adolf Kloke-Lesch

The EU needs new confidence

SDGs could help EU escape its malaise

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Poverty Reduction

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

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
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

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

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
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

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