Iacobuta, Gabriela
Dr. Gabriela Iacobuta
Research programme
Environmental Governance
Function
Associate Researcher
Specialization
Climate and sustainable development policy
Work areas
- National and international climate policy
- Climate and sustainable development interactions
- Just transitions to sustainability
- Development cooperation
Vita
| 4/2018-6/2023 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Researcher at the Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability" |
| 5/2016-11/2021 | Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands PhD candidate: Enablers of ambitious climate action: Challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development |
| 5/2016-3/2018 | Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands Researcher: Environmental Systems Analysis Group; CD-LINKS research project (Linking Climate and Development Policies – Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing) |
| 8/2015-12/2016 | NewClimate Institute Internship: Climate change mitigation policy analysis |
| 3/2015-7/2015 | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Internship: Sustainable Development Mechanisms; Clean Development Mechanism projects demand |
| 7/2013-9/2013 | United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Internship: Resilience Academy 2013 organization team |
| 6/2012-9/2012 | Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) Student fellowship |
| 7/2011-8/2011 | National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico Internship |
Refereed Publications
- Hermwille, Lukas / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Wolfgang Obergassel (2023)
Global stocktake and the SDG mid-term review as opportunities for integration
in: Nature Climate Change 13, 1002-1004 - Browne, Katherine / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Zoha Shawoo / Ines Dombrowsky / Mathias Fridahl / Sara Gottenhuber / Åsa Persson (2023)
How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda
in: Sustainable Development 31 (5), 3161-3174 - Hägele, Ramona / Gabriela I. Iacobuţă / James Tops (2022)
Addressing climate goals and the SDGs through a just energy transition? Empirical evidence from Germany and South Africa
in: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 19 (1), 85-120 - Dubash, Navroz K. / Catherine Mitchell et al. (2022)
Contributions to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, Working Group III, Chapter 13: National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions
Cambridge, UK and New York, USA: Cambridge University Press - Iacobuta, Gabriela / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo / Sofia Durón (2022)
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens: the role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement
in: Global Environmental Change 74, article 102509 - Iacobuta, Gabriela (2021)
Enablers of ambitious climate action: challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development
Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen University - Nascimento, Leonardo / Takeshi Kuramochi / Gabriela Iacobuta et al. (2021)
Twenty years of climate policy: G20 coverage and gaps
in: Climate Policy 22 (2), 158-174 - Iacobuta, Gabriela / Niklas Höhne / Heleen L. van Soest / Rik Leemans (2021)
Transitioning to low-carbon economies under the 2030 Agenda: minimizing trade-offs and enhancing co-benefits of climate-change action for the SDGs
in: Sustainability 13 (19), 10774 - Chan, Sander / Gabriela Iacobuta / Ramona Hägele (2020)
Maximising goal coherence in sustainable and climate-resilient development? Polycentricity and coordination in governance
in: Sachin Chaturvedi / Heiner Janus / Stephan Klingebiel / Xiaoyun Li / André de Mello e Souza / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos / Dorothea Wehrmann (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of development cooperation for achieving the 2030 Agenda, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 25-50, online - Rantala, Salla / Gabriela Iacobuta / Stefania Minestrini / Julika Tribukait (2020)
Gaps and opportunities for synergies in international environmental law on climate and biodiversity to promote the Sustainable Development Goals
in: Honkonen, Tuula / Seita Romppanen (Hrsg.), 2019 International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review, Joensuu, Finland: University of Eastern Finland, 58-99 - Mark Roelfsema / Heleen L. van Soest / Mathijs Harmsen / Detlef P. van Vuuren / Christoph Bertram / Michel den Elzen / Niklas Höhne / Iacobuta, Gabriela [...] (2020)
Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement
in: Nature Communications 11(2096) (Online) - Chan, Sander / Idil Boran / Harro van Asselt / Gabriela Iacobuta / Navam Niles / Katharine Rietig / Michelle Scobie / Jennifer S. Bansard / Deborah Delgado Pugley / Laurence L. Delina / Friederike Eichhorn / Paula Ellinger / Okechukwu Enechi / Thomas Hale (2019)
Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance
in: Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change 10 (3), article e572 - Iacobuta, Gabriela / Navroz K. Dubash / Prabhat Upadhyaya / Mekdelawit Deribe / Niklas Höhne (2018)
National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update
in: Climate Policy 18 (9), 1114-1132
Non-refereed Publications
- Dzebo, Adis / Aparajita Banerjee / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Raphaelle Beaussart (2024)
NDC-SDG Connections: Data on updated NDC submissions (V2)
Bonn/Stockholm: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - Iacobuţă, Gabriela / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo (2023)
NDC-SDG Connections: Data on first NDC submissions (V1)
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) / Stockholm Environment Institute - Dzebo, Adis / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Raphaëlle Beaussart / Aparajita Banerjee (2023)
NDC-SDG Connections: Data on updated NDC submissions (V2)
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) / Stockholm Environment Institute - Dzebo, Adis / Gabriela Iacobuţă, / Raphaëlle Beaussart (2023)
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: evolving connections
Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - Iacobuta, Gabriela (2023)
IDOS researcher Dr Gabriela Iacobuţă has received the dissertation prize of the Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft
published on blogs.idos-research.de, 26.06.2023 - Bouacida, Ines / Elisabeth Hege / Gabriela Iacobuta / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2022)
African Union-European Union cooperation on climate and energy: discussing perspectives on hydrogen and just transitions
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) (November 2022) - Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Gabriela Iacobuta (2022)
El Pacto Verde Europeo sigue siendo la respuesta
in: Política Exterior 36 (209), 144-153 - Iacobuţă, Gabriela Ileana / Alexia Faus Onbargi et al. (2022)
The European Green Deal and the war in Ukraine: addressing crises in the short and long term
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) (July 2022) - Bauer, Steffen / Marie-Jeanne Kurdziel / Gabriela Iacobuta / Clara Brandi / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Delphine Deryng / Jonas Hanshom / Niklas Höhne / Sybrig Smit / Srinivasa Srigiri (2021)
Working together to achieve the Paris climate goals and sustainable development: international climate cooperation and the role of developing countries and emerging economies
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Bauer, Steffen / Marie-Jeanne Kurdziel / Gabriela Iacobuta / Clara Brandi / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Delphine Deryng / Jonas Hanshom / Niklas Höhne / Sybrig Smit / Srinivasa Srigiri (2021)
Gemeinsam Paris-Ziele und nachhaltige Entwicklung erreichen: Internationale Klimakooperation und die Rolle der Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Hackenesch, Christine / Maximilian Högl / Gabriela Iacobuta / Hanne Knaepen / John Asafu-Adjaye (2021)
Green transitions in Africa–Europe relations: what role for the European Green Deal?
ETTG-Paper, April 2021 - Teevan, Chloe / Luca Barana / Daniele Fattibene / Gabriela Iacobuta / Silke Weinlich / Steffen Bauer (2021)
A new multilateralism for the post-COVID world: What role for the EU-Africa partnership?
ETTG-Paper, April 2021 - Högl, Maximilian / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
AU-EU partnership to promote sustainable energy transitions
in: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Policy Briefing (209), Online - Iacobuta, Gabriela (2020)
Was bedeutet der Green Deal für den globalen Süden?
published on www.welthungerhilfe.de, 12.08.2020 - Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action toward climate-friendly sustainable development
in: Global Solutions Journal (2020/5), 115-121 - Shawoo, Zoha / Adis Dzebo / Ramona Hägele / Gabriela Iacobuta / Sander Chan / Cassilde Muhoza / Philip Osano / Marie Francisco / Åsa Persson / Björn-Ola Linner / Marjanneke J. Vijge (2020)
Increasing policy coherence between NDCs and SDGs: a national perspective
Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI policy brief) - Iacobuta, Gabriela / Mariella Di Ciommo / Niels Keijzer / Hanne Knaepen / Lola Valllejo / Steffen Bauer (2019)
Harnessing EU external cooperation to boost ambitious and coherent climate action
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group - Dzebo, Adis / Hannah Janetschek / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)
Connections between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda: the case for policy coherence
Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI Working Papers) - Bauer, Steffen / Julian Bergmann / Clara Brandi / Mark Furness / Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Gabriela Iacobuta / Julia Leininger / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2019)
An agenda for Europe in the world
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group - Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)
With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action towards climate-friendly sustainable development
(Briefing Paper 10/2019) - Nguyen, Quynh / Hannah Janetscheck / Gabriela Iacobuta / Adis Dzebo (2018)
Pathways for policy coherence in implementation of NDC and SDGs in Viet Nam and the role of civil society
Hanoi, Vietnam: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Dzebo, Adis / Hannah Janetschek / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta (2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals viewed through a climate lens
Stockholm: Environment Institute Stockholm (SEI Policy Brief December 2018)
Opinion Pieces
- Iacobuta, Gabriela / Steffen Bauer (2023)
Let’s work together!
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 5 June 2023 - Iacobuta, Gabriela (2022)
An eye-level partnership
in: Eni World Energy 52, 24-31 - Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Gabriela Iacobuta / Lukas Hermwille (2022)
What role should the EU Green Deal play in times of conflict?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 4 April 2022 - Iacobuta, Gabriela (2020)
Europe in the world: how the European Green Deal could influence global climate action and sustainable development
published on blogs.die-gdi.de, 07.10.2020, Online - Högl, Maximilian / Christine Hackenesch / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
How the European Green Deal should reshape Africa-EU relations
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 28 September 2020 - Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
Curb your enthusiasm: Corona may slow down multilateral process, but must not derail global climate policy
published on blogs.die-gdi.de 02.04.2020 - Bauer, Steffen / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
Walking the talk: leveraging the Green Deal to boost climate ambition through EU external action
published on ETTG European Think Tank Group February 28, 2020 - Bauer, Steffen / Gabriela Iacobuta (2018)
Making sense of COP24
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 17 December 2018)
Projects
- Governance Analyses for Transformation to Sustainability – Sustainable Development Pathways Achieving Human Well-being while Safeguarding the Climate and Planet Earth (SHAPE)
- Klimalog: Research and dialogue for a just and SDG-compatible implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement ("Klimalog II")
- Global Sustainable Development Report - Scientific contributions and outreach activities
- Overcoming Incoherence in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda
- Klimalog: Research for a climate-smart and just transformation
Highlight
Transitioning to low-carbon economies under the 2030 Agenda: minimizing trade-offs and enhancing co-benefits of climate-change action for the SDGs
Iacobuta, Gabriela / Niklas Höhne / Heleen L. van Soest / Rik Leemans (2021)
in: Sustainability 13 (19)
Highlight
Green transitions in Africa–Europe relations: what role for the European Green Deal?
Hackenesch, Christine / Maximilian Högl / Gabriela Iacobuta / Hanne Knaepen / John Asafu-Adjaye (2021)
ETTG-Paper, April 2021
Highlight
Working together to achieve the Paris climate goals and sustainable development: international climate cooperation and the role of developing countries and emerging economies
Bauer, Steffen / Marie-Jeanne Kurdziel / Gabriela Iacobuta / Clara Brandi / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Delphine Deryng / Jonas Hanshom / Niklas Höhne / Sybrig Smit / Srinivasa Srigiri (2021)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Call for Papers
Integrative approaches to the environmental and socio-economic SDGs
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences is actively seeking submissions which contribute to the global policy priorities represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for a Special Issue “Integrative approaches to the environmental and socio-economic SDGs” to be published in 2022.
