Stories on economy and employment

Drei Fragen an Ana Maria Villegas, Start-up-Unternehmerin in Kolumbien. Die Designerin hat ein Mehrwegkonzept für die Gastronomie entwickelt.

The COP29 UN Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan ended with relatively little to show in the way of progress. In an interview with akzente, Jörg Linke, Head of GIZ’s Competence Centre for Climate Change, explains why hopes are now turning to COP30 next year in Belém.

Bernd Schramm explains why ensuring equal participation for people with and without disabilities is important in international cooperation and how much progress has been made.

To bring about a Just Energy Transition (JET), you have to take everyone with you and get them actively involved. On behalf of the German Government, GIZ supports a number of South African partner organisations as they embark on this journey. We interviewed a wide range of people about the changes they see happening in the Cape.

GIZ Managing Director Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven on this autumn’s political pushes for sustainability

Demand for sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is growing rapidly. In this interview, Fabíola Correia de Carvalho from the SENAI Innovation Institute for Renewable Energies in Natal explains how research has joined forces with GIZ in Brazil to tackle this key issue for the future.

In Brazil, GIZ supports research and efforts to build a green hydrogen economy in a variety of ways. As a result, there has been an upsurge of interest from many stakeholders, including the private sector.

My name is Daniel Moser. I’ve been living in India for a year now and, before that, I worked for the World Bank in the United States. In India, I manage several GIZ transport projects with support from a fantastic, dynamic team.

The world is facing uncertain times, and geopolitical tensions are on the rise. Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) be upheld? Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Programme, believes that they are more relevant than ever. In this interview, he explains why.

South Africa’s progress and challenges on the road to a green energy future: Aalia Cassim, Acting Chief Director of Microeconomic Policy at the National Treasury of South Africa, in an akzente interview

South Africa and its energy transition: a journey to the Western Cape shows how young people are being integrated into efforts to transform the energy sector.

Martha Gutierrez explains how GIZ evaluates its work, what it learns from such evaluations and why no policy area in Germany is more scrutinised.