With Polit-Sichten, Helvetas provides monthly insights into development policy issues. In the current issue, we note that the world that the media brings into our living rooms is getting smaller and smaller. However, information gaps are dangerous in the face of crises and climate change. We then look at four obstacles that are undermining the 1.5-degree target set in Paris. And we point out possible solutions. But first, let’s take a look at what’s currently on our minds: In the debates under the dome of the Bundeshaus, funds that are actually earmarked for humanitarian aid, development cooperation and preventive peace policy are suddenly being used as maneuvering mass for other expenditures.