Global Environmental Governance and (Sub-)national Transformation Strategies

The cluster examines developments in global environmental governance and their effects on national and (sub)-national transformation processes.

Central research questions include:

  • How are the Rio Conventions and the 2030 Agenda implemented and how do they influence (sub-)national transformation strategies?
  • How does the concept of just transitions influence ecological and social change?
  • How can governance and financing mechanisms for dealing with adaptation to climate change, loss and damage and human mobility be strengthened?
  • What role do national sustainability frameworks play in the implementation of international environmental agreements?
  • Which strategies accelerate urban and rural sustainability transitions?

Publications

Making global climate action work for nature and people: priorities for race to zero and race to resilience
Boran, Idil / Nathalie Pettorelli / C. Alexandre / Ricardo Aguiar Borges Köberle / Adriana De Palma / Deborah Delgado / Andrew Deneault / Alexandra Deprez / Pablo Imbach / Neil R. Jennings / Anke Manuela Salzmann / Oscar Widerberg / Sander Chan (2024)

Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 159, September 2024, 103803

Supporting the Paris Agreement through international cooperation: potential contributions, institutional robustness, and progress of Glasgow climate initiatives
Kuramochi, Takeshi / Andrew Deneault / Sander Chan / Sybrig Smit / Natalie Pelekh (2024)

in: npj Climate Action 3, article 31

Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund
Aleksandrova, Mariya / Laura Kuhl / Daniele Malerba (2024)

in: Climate Policy 24 (7), 878-893

Transforming the rhetoric of Just Energy Transition Partnerships into reality: the devil lies in the details
Banerjee, Aparajita (2024)

in: PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 3 (8), e0000121

Exploring the influence of power on the governance of climate im/mobility in Accra and Dakar
Ekoh, Susan S. (2024)

(Discussion Paper 10/2024)

Early engagement and co-benefits strengthen cities' climate commitments
O'Garra, Tanya / Viktoriya Kuz / Andrew Deneault / Christopher Orr / Sander Chan (2024)

in: Nature Cities, first published March 19, 2024

Building a shared agenda on green industrialization for Africa and Europe
Banerjee, Aparajita / Damien Barchiche / San Bilal et al. (2024)

Ukȧmȧ Policy Brief (February 2024), Paris: IDDRI

EU-LAC cooperation on climate change and energy transitions
Riaño, Maria Alejandra / Damien Barchiche / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Niels Keijzer (2024)

in: ETTG Collective Report 2/2024, A common future for Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brussels: European Think Tanks Group, 15-26

The future of climate and development finance: balancing separate accounting with integrated policy responses
Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2023)

(Policy Brief 19/2023)

How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda
Browne, Katherine / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Zoha Shawoo / Ines Dombrowsky / Mathias Fridahl / Sara Gottenhuber / Åsa Persson (2023)

in: Sustainable Development 31 (5), 3161-3174

Global stocktake and the SDG mid-term review as opportunities for integration
Hermwille, Lukas / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Wolfgang Obergassel (2023)

in: Nature Climate Change 13, 1002-1004

Germany's Energiewende: synergies, trade-offs and political drivers
Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Ines Dombrowsky (2023)

(Policy Brief 18/2023)

Climate change and coastal megacities: adapting through mobility
Ekoh, Susan S. / Lemir Termon / Idowu Ajibade (2023)

in: Global Environmental Change 80, article 102666

From regime-building to implementation: harnessing the UN climate conferences to drive climate action
Obergassel, Wolfgang / Steffen Bauer / Lukas Hermwille / Stefan C. Aykut / Idil Boran / Sander Chan / Carolin Fraude / Richard J. T. Klein / Kathleen A. Mar / Heike Schroeder / Katia Simeonova (2022)

in: WIREs Climate Change 13 (6), e797

The EU and the Glasgow Dialogue: advancing a balanced approach to loss and damage
Anisimov, Ariadna / Mariya Aleksandrova / Steffen Bauer / Lola Vallejo (2022)

IDDRI Policy Brief 5/22

The global biodiversity framework needs a robust action agenda
Chan, Sander / Steffen Bauer / Michele M. Betsill et al. (2022)

in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 172-173

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)

Now or never: challenges of global biodiversity conservation
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2020)

in: Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ), 11/2020, 4-10

Maximising goal coherence in sustainable and climate-resilient development? Polycentricity and coordination in governance
Chan, Sander / Gabriela Iacobuta / Ramona Hägele (2020)

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

Gaps and opportunities for synergies in international environmental law on climate and biodiversity to promote the Sustainable Development Goals
Rantala, Salla / Gabriela Iacobuta / Stefania Minestrini / Julika Tribukait (2020)

in: Honkonen, Tuula / Seita Romppanen (Hrsg.), 2019 International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review, Joensuu, Finland: University of Eastern Finland, 58-99

Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management
Stange, Gunnar / Harald Sterly / Patrick Sakdapolrak / Marion Borderon / Benjamin Schraven / Diogo Andreola Serraglio / Mariya Aleksandrova (2020)

published on Environmental Migration Portal, 22.10.2020, Online

AU-EU partnership to promote sustainable energy transitions
Högl, Maximilian / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)

in: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Policy Briefing (209), Online

With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action toward climate-friendly sustainable development
Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)

in: Global Solutions Journal (2020/5), 115-121

Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact
Hale, Thomas .N. / Sander Chan / Angel Hsu / Andrew Clapper / Cynthia Elliott / Pedro Faria / Takeshi Kuramochi / Shannon McDaniel / Milimer Morgado / Mark Roelfsema / Mayra Santaella / Neelam Singh / Ian Tout / Chris Weber / Amy Weinfurter / Oscar Widerberg (2020)

in: Climate Policy, 1-15 (online first)

Correcting course: the emission reduction potential of international cooperative initiatives
Lui, Swithin et al. (2020)

in: Climate Policy, 25 August 2020, 1-19

Introduction: Agency in earth system governance
Betsill, Michele M. / Tabitha M. Benney / Andrea K. Gerlak / Calum Brown / Sander Chan / Okechukwu Enechi / Ronald B. Mitchell / Ina Möller / James J. Patterson / Michelle Scobie / Sandra van der Hel / Oscar E. Widerberg (2020)

in: Michele M. Betsill / Tabitha M. Benney / Andrea K. Gerlak (eds.), Agency in earth system governance, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 3-24

Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement
Mark Roelfsema / Heleen L. van Soest / Mathijs Harmsen / Detlef P. van Vuuren / Christoph Bertram / Michel den Elzen / Niklas Höhne / Iacobuta, Gabriela [...] (2020)

in: Nature Communications 11(2096) (Online)

Increasing policy coherence between NDCs and SDGs: a national perspective
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)

Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI policy brief)

Taming the big green elephant. Setting the motion for transformation towards sustainability
Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac (2020)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

The implications of the UN’s ruling on 'climate refugees'
Aleksandrova, Mariya / Benjamin Schraven / Diogo Serraglio (2020)

The Current Column of 24 February 2020

Harnessing EU external cooperation to boost ambitious and coherent climate action
Iacobuta, Gabriela / Mariella Di Ciommo / Niels Keijzer / Hanne Knaepen / Lola Valllejo / Steffen Bauer (2019)

Brussels: European Think Tanks Group

An agenda for Europe in the world
Bauer, Steffen / Julian Bergmann / Clara Brandi / Mark Furness / Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Gabriela Iacobuta / Julia Leininger / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2019)

Brussels: European Think Tanks Group

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement: voluntary contributions towards thematic policy coherence
Janetschek, Hanna / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo / Bernd Hackmann (2019)

in: Climate Policy 20(4), 430-442

Principles and considerations for mainstreaming climate change risk into national social protection frameworks in developing countries
Aleksandrova, Mariya (2019)

in: Climate and Development Vol. 12(6), 511-520

Social protection as a tool to address slow onset climate events: emerging issues for research and policy
Aleksandrova, Mariya (2019)

Discussion Paper 16/2019

Slow onset climate risks require a strong governance mechanism
Aleksandrova, Mariya/ Idil Boran (2019)

The Current Column of 14 October 2019

Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance
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 / Lukas Hermwille / Thomas Hickmann / Matthias Honegger / Andrea Hurtado Epstein / Stephanie La Hoz Theuer / Robert Mizo / Yixian Sun / Patrick Toussaint / Geoffrey Wambugu (2019)

published on Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change 03 January 2019

Exploring links between national climate strategies and non-state and subnational climate action in nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
Hsu, Angel / John Brandt / Oscar Widerberg / Sander Chan / Amy Weinfurter (2019)

in: Climate Policy, 1-15 (online first)

With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action towards climate-friendly sustainable development
Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)

DIE Briefing Paper 10/2019

The Sustainable Development Goals viewed through a climate lens
Dzebo, Adis / Hannah Janetschek / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta (2018)

Stockholm: Environment Institute Stockholm (SEI Policy Brief December 2018)

Deforestation and the Paris climate agreement: an assessment of REDD+ in the national climate action plans
Hein, Jonas / Alejandro Guarin / Ezra Frommé / Pieter Pauw (2018)

in: Forest Policy and Economics 90 (May), 7-11

National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update
Iacobuta, Gabriela / Navroz K. Dubash / Prabhat Upadhyaya / Mekdelawit Deribe / Niklas Höhne (2018)

in: Climate Policy 18 (9), 1114-1132

Beyond headline mitigation numbers: we need more transparent and comparable NDCs to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change
Pauw, Pieter / Richard J. T. Klein / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo / Davide Cassanmagnago / Anna Rudloff (2017)

in: Climatic Change (online first 19 December 2017), 1-7

Non-economic losses from climate change: opportunities for policy-oriented research
Serdeczny, Olivia / Steffen Bauer / Saleemul Huq (2017)

published on Climate and Development 09 Sep 2017

Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research
Klinsky, Sonja / Timmons Roberts / Saleemul Huq / Chukwumerije Okereke / Peter Newell / Peter Dauvergne / Karen O’Brien / Heike Schroeder / Petra Tschakert / Jennifer Clapp / Margaret Keck / Frank Biermann / Diana Liverman / Joyeeta Gupta / Atiq Rahman / Dirk Messner / David Pellow / Steffen Bauer (2016)

published on Global Environmental Change doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.08.002

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Why attaining gender equality is critical for climate action
Sen, Amrita / Aparajita Banerjee (2024)

Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 3 June 2024

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EU-LAC cooperation on climate change and energy transitions
Riaño, Maria Alejandra / Damien Barchiche / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Niels Keijzer (2024)

in: ETTG Collective Report 2/2024, A common future for Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brussels: European Think Tanks Group, 15-26