Roll, Michael / Nicholas Goedeking / Lena Gutheil
(2026)
New city projects often fail to live up to their promise of advancing sustainable urban development – yet, they can serve powerful shadow interests.
Kuhn, Sascha / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Bernardin Senadza / Babette Never
(2026)
Emotions are widely invoked to motivate climate action, yet how different forms of emotional activation translate into costly, real-world pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) remains unclear. Based on...
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel
(2026)
This paper examines the ideological and policy shifts in US development cooperation under the second Trump administration and their implications for international development and the evolving global...
Taking part is not enough. What the Biodiversity COP can learn from climate negotiations about including Indigenous peoples and local communities.
Srivastava, Swati / Tads Ciecierski-Holmes / Christoph Strupat / Divya Parmar/ Nishant Jain/ Manuela De Allegri
(2026)
Goedeking, Nicholas / Lena Gutheil / Michael Roll
(28/2026)
Why do governments continue to promote new city developments even when they fail to achieve their stated urban development goals? Our new policy brief shows how shadow interests—hidden political...
Asatryan, Zareh / Thushyanthan Baskaran / Patrick Hufschmidt / Alexander Stöcker
(2026)
Zondo, Nomzamo / Eva Dick / Jacqueline Wingens
(2026)
Reflecting on the occasion of the World Cities Day 2026, we need courageous policies protecting the human right to adequate housing worldwide.
Strohmaier, Rita / Raimund Bleischwitz / Clara Brandi / Magnus Fröhling / Himanshu Himanshu / Henning Wilts / Christian Wolf
(2026)
Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / Daniele Malerba
(2026)
Novoselova, Anna
(27/2026)
What does Europe need from the next UN Secretary-General, and how can they keep Europe engaged? The new policy brief identifies key trends in Europe's engagemet with the UN and sets out the priorities...
Sinanoglu, Semuhi / Niels Keijzer
(26/2026)
Democracies face threats from both within and outside. In this brief, we explore a key area of the EU’s external action in terms of its potential to safeguard democracy, namely its trade policy.
Hein, Jonas et al.
(25/2026)
Conservation needs reform, as current approaches towards biodiversity conservation have not been able to halt biodiversity loss. This policy brief provides a number of suggestions on how to make...
Perez-Catala, Anna / Hanne Knaepen / Mariana Camelo / Marta Torres Gunfaus / Steffen Bauer / Niels Keijzer
(2026)
This blog draws on discussions at a closed-door roundtable titled “EU Climate Diplomacy: Promoting EU and Global Climate Goals in the Evolving Climate Regime,” held in Brussels on 3 September 2026 and...
Zumbraegel, Tobias
(12/2026)
Low-carbon hydrogen in Oman and Morocco is still being planned. The study compares how both countries govern resource demands, environmental risks and local participation while promised jobs and...
Wassie, Mengistu Alamneh / Lukas Kornher / Joachim von Braun
(2026)
Löpelt, Sarah / Julia Schlarmann / Kim Paczkowski / Christa Liedtke / Axel Berger
(2026)
Algieri, Bernardina / Lukas Kornher / Joachim von Braun
(2026)
El-Haddad, Amirah / Chahir Zaki
(2026)
Did COVID-19 favour the most efficient firms, or the most privileged? Evidence from Egyptian manufacturing reveals how firms’ capabilities and pre-existing inequalities shaped their resilience, while...
Martin-Shields, Charles / Anawaite Matadradra / Sevanaia Sakai / Unaisa Raileqe / Timothy Fadgen
(24/2026)
Planned relocation, the process of moving a community from one area of residence to a new one in response to an environmental risk or threat. Fiji has become a regional leader in planned relocation...
