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Water
Krupa Ge

Marginalised women’s plight

Women’s stressful duty of procuring water

Urban life
Krupa Ge

No water – or too much of it

2019 Chennai suffered a terrible drought – after devastating flooding four years earlier

Climate protection
Hans-Jochen Luhmann
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Appropriate carbon prices

Why carbon emissions pricing and carbon shadow pricing both make sense

Governance
Riad Sultan
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“Digitalisation and advanced technologies must be applied”

Mauritius’ water-supply problems result from faulty bad governance

Companies
Aviva Freudmann

Oil majors feel the shock

Multinational oil companies are under pressure

Oil markets
Aviva Freudmann

How the mighty have fallen

Oil producers are not able to send shock waves through the global economy anymore

KfW financing
Friederike Bauer
Achim Neumann

Investing in better networks

This is where KfW invests in new storage facilities and networks for renewable energy

Renewables
Friederike Bauer
Achim Neumann

Networks and storage needed

The global transition towards renewable energy can only succeed if the necessary networks and storage capacities are available

Fossil fuel
Nora Sausmikat
Quirin Jetschke

Bangladesh’s coal boom

International financial institutions are funding coal power in Bangladesh

Fossil fuel industry
Nora Sausmikat
Quirin Jetschke

China continues to finance coal power around the world

China’s energy policy is full of contradictions

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Poverty Reduction

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

Junk food in school
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

Gender Equality

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

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders

Sustainability

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders