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Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Sustainable and socially committed

Unless rising middle classes change their attitudes, sustainable develolpment will prove impossible

Nowadays
Patricia Galicia

Eco-tourism helps community

A village in Guatemala invites eco-tourists to its river in order to boost its municipal budget

Municipal climate partnership

Renewable energy for Nicaragua

Bielefeld is supporting climate-relevant projects in its Nicaraguan twin city Estelí

Climate finance
Morten Elkjær
Niels Egerup

Raising additional investment capital

Innovative Danish approach to mobilising private capital for climate-related investments in the developing world

Technological choices
Ian Christoplos

The downsides of green growth

Why naïve green-growth strategies can lead to failure

Infrastructure
Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann

Controversial undertakings

Large-scale projects for diverting water often cause more trouble than they deliver benefits

Global public goods
Mathieu Régnier

The web of life

Biodiversity is eroding – and the impacts on human health are not understood

Climate protection

Preparing for action

Involving indigenous peoples in REDD+ projects seems promising – in Bolivia even more so than in Ecuador

Farms
Barbara Mayrhofer

Feeding the world

Eco-friendly sustainable agriculture is what the world needs, according to some experts

Eco systems
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Dangerous dams

Mekong dam projects endanger eco systems as well as people's livelihoods

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Poverty Reduction

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?
Inequality is getting worse according to UNDP

Gender Equality

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

Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

Governance

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
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Sustainability

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Join us to discuss global development