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akzente provides insight into local engagement. GIZ’s expertise is in demand around the world. Together with its partners, it works in over 130 countries to offer people prospects and improve their living conditions over the long term.

Menstruation: let’s talk!
Menstruation is still a taboo subject. GIZ is working with local influencers to change this. Girls and women around the world should be able to experience menstruation in a healthy way.

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‘Promoting gender rights across continents’
The German Federal Foreign Office has introduced a new feminist foreign policy. Renata Giannini from the Unidas Women’s Network explains how it could influence German-Latin American relations.

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Extinction – diversity under threat
Our natural environment is being lost at an unprecedented pace. Biodiversity is vanishing everywhere, with both ecosystems and species affected.

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‘The UN Biodiversity Conference was unexpectedly a great success’
The international community adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Silke Spohn explains its strengths and weaknesses, and what it means for GIZ.

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‘The results are mixed’
Jörg Linke, Head of GIZ’s Competence Centre for Climate Change, reports on the results of COP27 in Egypt.

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UN conference on biodiversity 2022: COP15 in Canada in a nutshell
On 7 December 2022, the UN World Biodiversity Summit will start in Montreal, Canada. We answer the most frequently asked questions about COP15.

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Global CO2 emissions: the warmest seven years on record

Growing emissions of greenhouse gases are harming the climate. Where exactly do we stand in terms of CO2 emissions?

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Food and nutrition: diversity on a plate
To combat hunger in the face of climate change, researchers are focusing on new and newly discovered resilient crops. We take a look at five of these ‘supercrops’.

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‘We need to reform our food system’

In this akzente interview, agricultural scientist Matin Qaim talks about the global food situation and explains why the current crisis is a continuation of an unwelcome development.

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