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451. Don’t blame Islam for the murders in Paris

     

     Loewe, Markus / Annabelle Houdret / Mark Furness (2015)
     The Current Column, 21 January 2015

     The rise of militant Islamism has mainly domestic political reasons; the ideology has only catalytic effect.

452. Charlie Hebdo as a turning point of world politics? What Europe can do

     

     Messner, Dirk (2015)
     The Current Column, 21 January 2015

     Following the Paris attacks Europe faces three key challenges.

453. “The Stars are aligned”: Now bring them down to Earth!

     

     Bauer, Steffen / Silke Weinlich (2015)
     The Current Column, 19 January 2015

     Today, diplomats in New York kick off negotiations on a new universal agenda for sustainable development that is to be finalized in September this year. The envisaged set of new sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the post-2015 agenda will be at the heart of the foreseeable wrangling and haggling.

454. Development will be in the centre of 2015 – will it be universal or national?

     

     Scholz, Imme (2015)
     The Current Column, 12 January 2015

     This year's most ambitious development-policy project involves pushing ahead with a new universal agenda for sustainable development that commits all countries to working together for the good of current and future generations at national and global level. Is a project such as this even possible?

455. Assessing a Charter for the Future

     

     Mallavarapu, Siddharth (2014)
     The Current Column, 17 December 2014

     There is much to commend in the recent Charter for the Future (Zukunftscharta) presented to the German public and to German Chancellor Angela Merkel by the German Development Minister. But, one should ask under what conditions are these goals attainable, do they obscure issues of vast power differentials in their manner of their benign framing and do they invoke the universal to momentarily conceal more limited geopolitical visions.

456. Mind the (energy efficiency) gap!

     

     Figueroa, Aurelia (2014)
     The Current Column, 15 December 2014

     Behavioural barriers to energy efficiency uptake have been demonstrated to impede uptake in OECD Member countries. New research points to the relevance of this topic in a global setting.

457. Children’s Rights are Future Rights!

     

     Bauer, Steffen / Danuta Sacher (2014)
     The Current Column, 10 December 2014

     To mark the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we are dedicating this year's Human Rights Day, annually commemorated on 10 December, to the children and young people of the world. In today's discussions of key future issues, only a few players in the field of development policy have committed to explicitly taking the rights of children and young people into account,

458. Charter for the Future – Impulses for Sustainability Policy in Germany

     

     Scholz, Imme (2014)
     The Current Column, 02 December 2014

     In the year 2015, there will be two political processes that are fundamental with regard to sustainability policy in Germany: The further development of the German Strategy for Sustainable Development (SNE) and the adoption of the post-2015 Agenda by the United Nations (UN).The Charter for the Future – presented last week by the German Development Minister, Gerd Müller – is an important element in these processes.

459. What if TTIP fails?

     

     Berger, Axel (2014)
     The Current Column, 01 December 2014

     The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which the United States and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating since last summer, is currently the subject of heated debate.So, it is time for us to start to consider what impact its failure would have.

460. Why we wouldn’t have a climate problem, if we sent our children to the climate change conference

     

     Nannette Lindenberg (2014)
     The Current Column, 26 November 2014

     For many of us, the wait for Christmas begins on the first Sunday of advent - from Monday the international climate protection community will be looking full of hope to Lima where 195 countries will be meeting for the 20th time for the UN Climate Summit.