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Uganda: electricity or tourism?

Never, Babette (2014)
The Current Column, 08. July 2014

In Uganda, the decision on the size of a planned hydropower plant would breach a 2007 agreement to conserve this stretch of the river.

Dynamic dependence between clean investments and economic policy uncertainty

Urom, Christian / Hela Mzoughi / Gideon Ndubuisi / Khaled Guesmi (2022)
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The German "Energiewende" in the global context: lessons and pitfalls for low-carbon transformation

Berlin, 04. March 2014

Germany’s energy transition is high on the political agenda. However, the so-called “Energiewende” still has a long way to go if it is to become a global model for low-carbon transformation. What is expected from the German “Energiewende”? Is energy transition primarily a technical or a sociopolitical challenge? And how can the…

Reforming fossil fuel subsidies in the MENA countries

Vidican, Georgeta (2014)
External Publications

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

SDSN Leadership Council

Berlin, 13. July 2017

More than 60 SDSN Leadership Council members and representatives from around 20 national and regional SDSN networks came together on this year's spring meeting of the global SDSN Leadership Council (LC) in Berlin on 30 and 31 May 2017. The session took place in close association with the T20 summit (29 and 30 May). The German…

Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS)

The public sector capacity development activities for the implementation of the Agenda 2030 enable mutual learning between Schools of Public Administration (SPAs) from MGG partner countries.

Sustainability, round two: a new ecological radicality

Schmidt, Lars / Pierre Ibisch (2009)
The Current Column, 30. November 2009

The emergence of a solar energy innovation system in Morocco: a governance perspective

Vidican, Georgeta (2015)
External Publications

Setting the course for global development in the second decade of the 21st century

Messner, Dirk (2011)
The Current Column, 10. January 2011

Lund Dialogue and Transfer Forum on Sustainable Public Procurement

Lund, 26. September 2018

Sustainable public procurement (SPP) represents a central policy tool of the United Nations' Agenda 2030 for implementing sustainable consumption and production patterns. However, despite the enormous potential leverage effect of public demand for a transformation towards sustainability, there is a lack of academic studies on SPP. Against…

Assessing EU-Mediterranean policies in the fields of industry and energy from a bottom-up perspective

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki / Jean-Yves Moisseron / Khaled Guesmi (2018)
External Publications

Energy efficiency management in Ugandan SMEs: assessing the role of behaviour

Never, Babette (2015)
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Decarbonising Cities: Assessing Governance Approaches for Transformative Change

The “Decarbonising Cities” project focuses on the topic of sustainable urban development, actor constellations, financial resources, and impact assessment.

Profile and determinants of the middle classes in Ghana: energy use and sustainable consumption

Senadza, Bernardin / Babette Never / Sascha Kuhn / Felix A. Asante (2020)
External Publications

Payment for ecosystem services and the water-energy-food nexus: securing resource flows for the affluent?

Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Bibiana Duarte-Abadía / Rutgerd Boelens (2019)
External Publications

IDOS@COP28

Dubai, 30. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. IDOS will be active as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on…

Bringing development policy (back) in the picture

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2024)
The Current Column, 29. January 2024

Continuing the current direction of assertively and pragmatically pursuing the EU’s geostrategic interests carries the risk of fuelling conflicts of interest with a more assertive Global South.

The emergence of an innovation system for the solar energy sector in Morocco

Vidican, Georgeta (2014)
External Publications

Renewable, ethical? Assessing the energy justice potential of renewable electricity

Banerjee, Aparajita / Emily Prehoda / Roman Sidortsov / Chelsea Schelly (2017)
External Publications