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Indigenous participants from Brazil attending workshop at UN climate summit in Katowice late last year.

Networking beyond the UNFCCC

A more holistic approach

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by Fatima Arkin
Cartoon published in the French periodical Le Rire in 1899.

Relevant reading

“Free trade” in the 19th century

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by Hans Dembowski

Why governments struggle to eradicate the illegal drug trade

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by Hans Dembowski

Clean energy

Oikocredit invests in clean ­cooking

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by Franziska Wekenborg

Cooking

“We consider ourselves a fuel utility”

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by Eric Reynolds
by Hans Dembowski
The ministers of 11 nations celebrate the conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in Santiago de Chile in March. The participating countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

Global trade

“I do not know whether the WTO will survive”

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Many armed fighters do not wear standardised uniforms, but they all have weapons: child soldiers in Goma.

Congo

“The state functions according to its entirely own logic”

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by Christoph Vogel
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A committee of the European Parliament discussing the Panama Papers in May. The Panama Papers made information about large-scale tax evasion and money laundering public.

International initiatives

Battling tax evasion

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by Nico Beckert
Protest in London in August against British mining companies that are accused, among other things, of evading taxes in Africa.

Commodities

Missing billions

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by Nico Beckert
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