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At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

Liane Schalatek

liane.schalatek@us.boell.org

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in summer of 2019 as the associate director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America. The foundation is close to Germany’s Green Party.  

All articles of Liane Schalatek

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Ambiguity instead of accountability

The international community urgently needs a clear definition of what exactly counts as climate finance

Green Climate Fund
Liane Schalatek

Signalling effect for global climate finance

The Green Climate Fund is important for implementing the Paris agreement

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Get ready for business

The Green Climate Fund aspires to be fully operational ahead of the climate summit in Paris in December

Multilateral institution
Liane Schalatek

Transformative potential

Several programmatic decisions that will guide the Green Climate Fund are promising

Global governance
Liane Schalatek
Smita Nakhooda

Slow, but steady progress

Green Climate Fund is making slow, but steady progress

New institution
Liane Schalatek

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Multilateral politics
Liane Schalatek

Another opportunity

Ahead of the UN climate summit in Durban, the Green Climate Fund is taking shape

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A powerful role model for African girls
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Women, climate and chocolate
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Financing health systems for informal workers

Poverty Reduction

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

Hope is a resource
Zimbabwe’s malnutrition crisis worsens under El Niño drought
Rethink conditions for lending to African countries
Better development financing for Africa
Burundi’s struggling tourism: Parks and reserves under threat

Gender Equality

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

Hope is a resource
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Annexation as a political goal
Living between hope and helplessness
Fundamentally different fundamentalists
How indigenous spirituality matters
Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

Sustainability

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

Annexation as a political goal
Living between hope and helplessness
Fundamentally different fundamentalists
How indigenous spirituality matters
Soviet-era borders cause trouble today