Stories on sustainable infrastructure

Three questions for Costa Rican Guillermo Pereira, founder and managing director of Fortech

Grenada is promoting sustainable tourism, in line with SDG 12. Dessima Williams has already made a number of changes at her hotel, and she still has big plans.

Lviv, revisited: In 2020, akzente spoke with its mayor Andriy Sadovyi for the first time. Since the Russian invasion, his world is a different one.

I’ve been working for GIZ in Benin since 2020. Every morning, my route to work takes me across a small lagoon. It’s a sight I’ll never get tired of, and one that reminds me of the importance of water every day.

The world’s biggest mangrove forest is situated on the border between Bangladesh and India. We meet the people who live with and earn a livelihood from the Sundarbans UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Water scarcity is increasing across the globe. Conflicts escalate in places where there is a lack of drinking water and sanitary facilities. An overview of global water stress and its causes.

Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment of Jordan, Dr Mohammed Al Khashashneh, on the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR)

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.

Edgar Ssensalo, 27, is from Uganda and works as a Software Engineer. For him, artificial intelligence is the most important accomplishment there is – because machines that are able to learn can predict and shape the future, with sophisticated software and intelligent modelling.

An interview from South Africa's coal-mining region: a new beginning that incorporates fair climate action, the expansion of renewable energy and new job prospects

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.