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The UN Pact for the Future: New hope for multilateralism?

Debt relief for poor countries, pulling the plug on corporate tax avoidance, guaranteeing developing countries a seat on international finance committees – experts discuss proposals for development financing at the annual conference of the German Council for Sustainable Development.

Successfully monitoring global sustainability goals

At a VNR Lab initiated jointly by the German Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Forum for National SDG Advisory Bodies, stakeholders from around the world exchanged views on the factors that determine whether the progress of the 2030 Agenda can be successfully and constructively monitored. The participants were surprisingly unanimous.

“Cutting the development budget risks provoking the next conflicts”

There’s a gaping hole in global development financing – which means the poorest countries have nothing left to put towards the UN SDGs. This is partially due to the global financial and debt architecture, which is now set to change with, among other measures, the reform of the World Bank. We spoke to RNE member Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul to find out what this reform has in store and where even more needs be done.

“Sustainability done well is freedom”

How can sustainability go from swimming against the current to popular sport? RNE member, sustainability researcher and didactics professor Kai Niebert talks about evil cutlets, self-righteous debates and the freedom to make one’s own decisions.

“Conservation nearly always means climate protection”

As Director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt am Main, Professor Katrin Böhning-Gaese explores the coexistence of people and nature. In our interview she explains why the loss of biodiversity is a threat to humans and how we can rescue nature.

The DNS – a plan to secure Germany’s long-term future

A revised version of the German Sustainable Development Strategy (DNS) is set to be published at the end of the year. As a partner in the update process, the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) is determined to make the DNS more binding, more systematic – and more focused on what comes after 2030.

A pact for the future

The United Nations has big plans for the Summit of the Future in September 2024. A Pact for the Future aims to smooth the waters between the member states and, above all, give the 2030 Agenda a boost. Now the first draft has been published and the tussle begins.

Heat-Map about Principal Adverse Impact Indicators (PAIs)

SDG Summit: A question of money

The world has some catching up to do, was the overwhelming takeaway from the sustainability summit in New York. So how do we get there? The German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) calls for urgent reform of the international financial architecture.

HLPF: The international community is still off track

As every year, the High-Level Political Forum saw UN member states and NGOs convene in New York to discuss the lie of the land as the international community attempts to reach the global sustainability goals. We present the key topics that emerged for the forthcoming SDG Summit in the autumn.

Midway through Agenda 2030: Global community must step up a gear

The mid-term review from the latest Global Sustainable Development Report makes sober reading. Answers are expected at the United Nations SDG Summit in New York in September.