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Major challenge or wishful thinking?

The United Nations's sustainable development goals can only be achieved with full support of the economy. But is the corporate sector even willing and ready for this? Answers by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Plaidoyer pour une éducation à la « condition terrestre »

Schweiz belastet andere Länder am stärksten

Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document

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The Post 2015 Development Goals: Solving the Puzzle

En transition : de la dépendance au pétrole à la résilience locale

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Nachhaltige Entwicklungspolitik / Michael von Hauff

Forests under threat / Robert Nasi ... [et al.]

Die Ökologie der digitalen Gesellschaft / hrsg. von Maja Göpel... [et al.]

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Politics and general pages

Article as analysis

Major challenge or wishful thinking?

The United Nations's sustainable development goals can only be achieved with full support of the economy. But is the corporate sector even willing and ready for this? Answers by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Political article

Noble intentions, short-sighted view

Three development economists were joint recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics. Their approach and research methods are controversial, however.

Political article

Driver of development, neo-colonialism – or both?

With the Belt and Road Initiative, China is pushing global development in a manner unparalleled to date. But how sustainable are the “new silk roads”? Switzerland wants a piece of the cake and has signed a memorandum of understanding with China.

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