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SDGs
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau

More effective partnerships

The OECD offers advice on how to improve international cooperation

Urbanisation
Ellen Thalman

“Can a city be sustainable?”

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

Relevant reading
Floreana Miesen
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Local action, global purpose

Though garbage challenges are similar all over the world, every place needs its own solutions

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Foreign policy, cooperation and the ecology

Brexit and the global commons

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

Urban development
Regina Brück
Hermann-Josef Ostlender
Mona Plate
Gabriele Schütz-Lembach

Learning from one another

Municipal development cooperation: Aachen and Cape Town break new ground

Fashion industry
Floreana Miesen

Mainstreaming responsibility

NGOs want to mobilise consumer pressure towards higher production standards in fashion industry

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Poverty Reduction

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

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
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

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.

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
How development policy is misunderstood

Sustainability

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

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
How development policy is misunderstood