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Washed up microplastic debris in Depoe Bay in Oregon on the US West Coast.

Microplastics

Scientists consider tiny chemicals to be health hazards

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Wind farm in northwest China.

CO2 emissions

Make Xi keep his climate promises

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Elementary school children at Jusoor learning center in Lebanon.

Education

Initiatives that help refugee children

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by Qaabata Boru
Children are curious and want to learn.

Schools

Eight-week module on plastic waste for school curricula

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by Mukta Martens
In terms of sales, BASF, the Ludwigshafen-based multinational, is the chemical industry‘s global leader.

Environmental sustainability

First steps towards keeping environment toxin free

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by Katja Dombrowski
: KoBoToolbox | Data Collection Tools for Challenging Environments

Remote management

KfW remote project management with KoBoToolbox

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by Jochen Harnisch
by Meinhard Rögner
Plastic waste in Dakar, Senegal, in 2005: humankind needs global solutions to global chemicals problems.

Global environment

Trailblazing UN conference

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by Hans-Christian Stolzenberg
Inequality results from the current economic order, warns Oxfam: worker in Bangladeshi garment factory.

Oxfam

Fundamental change needed to overcome inequality

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Peter Thiel, the Silicon-Valley billionaire, visiting Donald Trump in New York in late 2016.

Special interests

The public good must not be left to powerful billionaires

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by Michael Steffen
by Hans Dembowski
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