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Chart: UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020, Executive Summery, p. VII

Climate protection

UNEP sees climate opportunities in pandemic-related stimulus

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by Katja Dombrowski

04.02.2021

Belgian soldiers patrolling a Christmas fair in Brussels after terror attacks of 2015.

Relevant reading

The Middle East and the challenge to the west

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02.02.2021

Exhibition stand of the Export-Import Bank of China.

Bilateral lending

Understanding Chinese development loans

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by Claudia Isabel Rittel

19.01.2021

View of Singapore’s Chinatown: in the background is a portion of the Pinnacle@Duxton housing complex, which was built by the state-run Housing Development Board.

Relevant reading

Singapore’s clever approach to public housing

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by Katja Dombrowski

17.01.2021

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KfW

KfW promotes energy-efficient new buildings in Mexico

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by Sanna Stockstrom

by Matthias Zilbauer

13.01.2021

Building boom in Istanbul.

Urban development

Why real-estate prices are rising fast in Istanbul

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by Sarah C. Schreiner

08.01.2021

Improved slum in Kolkata.

Urbanisation

Stages of improving neglected communities’ lives

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by Diana Mitlin

by David Satterthwaite

06.01.2021

“People gaze at their screens the whole day.”

Social media

Increasingly manipulated forum

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by Alan C. Robles

Alan C. Robles

01.01.2021

Mumbai slum.

Urban lives

My family succeeded in leaving dismal informal housing

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30.12.2020

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