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There can be no energy transition without batteries, and when it comes to the battery industry, there is no getting around China: wind turbines in China’s Jiangxi Province.

Just Transition

High ambition: jointly improving the battery industry

The Global Battery Alliance aims to ensure that the rapid growth of the battery industry happens responsibly. The potential is huge: the critical minerals in batteries can be recycled to a high degree, making them a cornerstone of a circular economy.

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by Inga Petersen
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
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Exploitative conditions continue to prevail in mining regions of the Global South.

Fair trade

Critical minerals: unearthing injustice

Who profits from the natural resources of the Global South? In many places, colonial patterns of exploitation are repeated. However, some developments offer hope for greater distributive justice.

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by Jörg Döbereiner
AI projects can have a positive impact on the lives of people.

AI tools

Four positive AI stories

Artificial intelligence is already changing our world. Here we present four out of seven AI projects that are having a positive impact on the lives of people in the Global South.

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Environmental protection

Why thousands of young activists are fighting for a Zimbabwean lake

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
Women protest against femicide in Rio de Janeiro in December.

Gender-based violence

Femicide in Brazil: If women must arm themselves the state has failed

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Gen Z protests in Madagascar last year.

Governance

How Africa is caught in the governance trap

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by Aimé Muligo Sindayigaya
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Cover of D+C issue 05/2026 titled “Tomorrow needs technologies, what’s the price?” featuring a photo of two children on a street beside a large illustration of a sinkhole with miners and partially buried cars.
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Tomorrow needs technologies, what’s the price?

There can be no energy transition without batteries, and when it comes to the battery industry, there is no getting around China: wind turbines in China’s Jiangxi Province.
Just Transition

High ambition: jointly improving the battery industry

The Global Battery Alliance aims to ensure that the rapid growth of the battery industry happens responsibly. The potential is huge: the critical minerals in batteries can be recycled to a high degree, making them a cornerstone of a circular economy.

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by Inga Petersen
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Exploitative conditions continue to prevail in mining regions of the Global South.
Fair trade

Critical minerals: unearthing injustice

Who profits from the natural resources of the Global South? In many places, colonial patterns of exploitation are repeated. However, some developments offer hope for greater distributive justice.

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by Jörg Döbereiner
Eduardo Relero is a contemporary artist.
Artist of the month

Eduardo Relero creates giant 3D artworks

Eduardo Relero is an Argentinian artist who creates optical illusions. Two of his artworks are featured in the D+C March issue.

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by D+C / E+Z
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Good news and solution stories

From groundbreaking court rulings to inspiring projects – positive change is happening all the time. Find out how people drive progress.

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Political parties use AI to create posters and leaflets.

Politics

How artificial intelligence is transforming democracy

by Katja Muñoz Eva-Maria Verfürth
For many people with disabilities, inclusion almost only exists on paper.

Disability rights

Better inclusion for people with disabilities in Nigeria

by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
Nigerian youth in Lagos during prayers.

Poverty reduction

When poverty is your family legacy

by Audu Meera
An Iranian woman with a mobile phone outside a café in Tehran in April 2026. The windows are covered with tape to prevent them from shattering in the event of an explosion.

Iran

How Iranians try to get by every day amid war

by Ariya Farahmand
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In der Hindukusch-Himalaya-Region schmelzen die Gletscher
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Global environment

Restoring the planet’s environmental health is indispensable

Coal mine in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Decarbonisation

The fossil fuel reality behind the rhetoric of energy transition

by Pedro Alarcón
Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

by Tsitsi Bhobo

Human-wildlife conflicts

Coexistence, not conflict

by Lameck Masina
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Plattenladen im Kenyatta-Markt in Nairobi
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Culture Special

Art with a developmental connection - compiled for you by the D+C editorial team.

Scene from the music video for “Maandamano” by Bien and Breeder LW.

Music

Dancing under tear gas

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Refugees continue to risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Book

A prayer on the night before fleeing across the sea

by Dagmar Wolf
At an event in São Paulo in 2024, women commemorate the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

Novel

How brave women fight back against oppression

by Sinikka Soriya Dombrowski
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Kinder auf einem staatlichen Schulhof in Nigeria.
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Education

Around the world, access to education must be made easier and its quality has to improve

Young people are getting their information from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and WhatsApp.

Media literacy

How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

by Kari Kivinen Eva-Maria Verfürth
Our author and a friend at their graduation ceremony at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Studying abroad

International degrees, national development

by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Inclusion

This Malawian invention rewrites the rules for blind students

by Lameck Masina
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Eine Sammlung von Geldscheinen und Münzen.
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Fiscal space

In view of multiple crises, state agencies must stay able to invest in crucial infrastructure and services

People in traditional attire celebrate the Yomari Punhi festival in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in December.

Nepal and the SDGs

Dreams of economic prosperity and sustainable development

by Rukamanee Maharjan
Further investment in education and health is needed to fully realise the potential of young people in Africa.

Growth

What can help sub-Saharan Africa grow in an inclusive way?

by Aimé Muligo Sindayigaya
A mural on a wall at Punjab University in Lahore depicts the burden placed on the poor to sustain the lifestyle of the elite.

Social sector

Pakistan’s social divide

by Abdur Rehman Cheema
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A woman in Iran is protesting for her rights.
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Gender equality

Empowering women and girls is crucial to achieving gender justice.

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations from China in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Looking the other way is (not) an option

by Selmin Çalışkan
Torchlight procession in Kolkata in August 2025, on the anniversary of the brutal rape of a female doctor in the city.

Gender equality

A city where women need panic buttons is not a safe city

by Roli Mahajan
Women fighting against the terror militia ISIS in Iraq in 2014. The conflict has left both physical and emotional scars.

Empowerment

Supporting traumatised women and girls in Iraq

by Haneen Masoud
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Exploitative conditions continue to prevail in mining regions of the Global South.

Fair trade

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Gender-based violence

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