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“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.
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“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.
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Minimising red tape: Companies to get help implementing new sustainability standards
A joint press release from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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Heat-Map about Principal Adverse Impact Indicators (PAIs)
DRSC/RNE pilot group "SME Reporting" presents contribution to the discussion on indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability aspects, the Principal Adverse Impact Indicators (PAI) for sustainability reporting by SMEs.
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COP28 must continue to push global climate financing despite multiple crises!
Members of the German Council for Sustainable Development at COP28 in Dubai
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Ways out of the current crises
Initial recommendations of the German Council for Sustainable Development for updating the country’s sustainable development strategy and advancing sustainability governance
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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.
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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.
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RNE calls for mobilisation of global capital to hit SDGs
Further recommendations: reforming the World Bank into a transformation bank, debt relief and reforming the special drawing rights of the IMF
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