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SDG 13: Climate Action

The temperature increase should be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. At the same time, the private sector should be mobilised for climate action, and the activities of international financial institutions should be made compatible with the climate targets of the Paris Agreement.

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Klima ist Teil unserer DNA
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Climate is part of our DNA

Global climate protection and why it’s essential for GIZ too. By Jörg Linke, Head of GIZ’s Competence Centre for Climate Change
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‘A community garden is a microcosm of society’

Monika Egerer is a professor at the Technical University of Munich. Her research explores what a healthy urban climate could look like. akzente asked her about the importance of urban ecosystems in the Global North and South, and how they benefit society.

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‘Climate is at the heart of development policy’

Svenja Schulze is new to the German Development Ministry but not to Government. Her priorities are climate, poverty, gender, health and crisis prevention. In an interview, she discusses German development policy in flux.

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In India, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH is empowering female entrepreneurs. Women are being empowered to take matters into their own hands as entrepreneurs. In this way, they become role models. Two voices on this inspiring journey.
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Bright change

In India, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is empowering women founders and allowing them to act independently as entrepreneurs. As a result, they are becoming role models. Two women describe this inspiring journey.
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Frozen sunlight

Green economic recovery in action: a successful German-Indonesian project illustrates how renewable energy can boost the local economy in fishing villages across the archipelago – with solar-powered ice makers.
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Three children are playing in the water on a sunny day. The child in the foreground is wearing swimwear and actively splashing water, while the other two children, one in pink and the other in grey, are watching. They are located at a water canal in Central Asia.
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A well of cooperation

Water is a precious resource in Central Asia. akzente visits Uzbekistan to see how it can be distributed sustainably and fairly – and how this enhances stability in the region in times of climate change.
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Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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