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German policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Points of reference

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, launches Charter for the Future

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

On the right track

Apart from global warming, there are other good reasons for phasing out fossil fuels

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

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

Ressource wealth
Loay Mudhoon

“Deathly silence”

How Saudi oil money is fuelling extremism and violence internationally

West Africa
Karim Okanla

Insufficient fire wood

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

Sustainability
Imme Scholz

“Skip out-dated technologies”

Several issues are slowing down the global transition to renewable energies

Subsidies
Anthony J. Jude

Counter-productive policy

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

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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.

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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

Sustainability

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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