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Wilder Westen bei der Klimafinanzierung wird noch wilder

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Steffen Bauer / Svea Koch (2024)
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Wollen die Staaten die Scherben vom Bakuer Klimagipfel aufsammeln und vorankommen, müssen sie aufhören, darüber zu streiten, ob das Glas der Klimafinanzierung halb voll oder halb leer ist, und stattdessen praktikable Mittel und Wege finden, es zu füllen.

Unlearning modernity? A critical examination of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Wagner, Niklas / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2025)
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Sustainable financial market policy against the headwinds

Hilbrich, Sören (2025)
The Current Column, 12. February 2025

Regulations aimed at channelling capital into sustainable economic investment should therefore be progressively developed rather than them being weakened or even abolished.

FfD4 as a turning point: overcoming challenges to strengthen sustainable development finance

Barchiche, Damien / Ben Katoka / Karim Karaki / Niels Keijzer / Iliana Olivié / Maria Santillán O’Shea (2025)
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International capital markets as a means of financing climate action: smooth sailing or stormy waters?

Dryden, Alex / Ulrich Volz (2025)
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Water in a heated world

Drewes, Jörg E. / Alexander Bassen / Markus Fischer / Anna-Katharina Hornidge et al. (2025)
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Middle East and North Africa: the importance of long-term effects

Loewe, Markus (2025)
The Current Column, 17. February 2025

The next German Federal Government should aim to achieve lasting impacts rather than seeking quick advantages in terms of trade, the stabilisation of authoritarian regimes or migration management, as the latter often have disastrous side effects in the long term.

Climate impact auctions: an underused tool for green subsidies in the Global South

Matthey, Max Alexander / Aidan Hollis / Clara Brandi / Georg Kobiela / Benjamin Roth / Magdalene Silberberger (2025)
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Current challenges in Central Asian water governance and their implications for research, higher education, and science-policy interaction

Abdullaev, Iskandar / Aliya Assubayeva / Ihtiyor Bobojonov / Nodir Djanibekov / Ines Dombrowsky / [...] / Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al. (2025)
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The heat is on: climate policy must not simmer on the back burner

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Mariya Aleksandrova (2025)
The Current Column, 19. February 2025

The incoming government will be well advised to reboot and even reframe the debate over Germany’s climate policy.

The heat is on: climate policy must not simmer on the back burner

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Mariya Aleksandrova (2025)
The Current Column, 19. February 2025

The incoming government will be well advised to reboot and even reframe the debate over Germany’s climate policy.

Policy for a rules-based multipolar world

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2025)
The Current Column, 24. February 2025

Over the next four years, the new German government, as a driving force in Europe, must throw its full weight behind securing the rules-based order.

Research Colloquium on Triangular Cooperation

, 25. February 2025

Triangular cooperation brings together partners across the North-South divide to address development-related concerns and strengthen partnerships. Triangular schemes often consist of multilateral bodies and traditional donors supporting (bilateral) South-South cooperation endeavours and have been said to centre on three sets of roles:…

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To strengthen our project “BioCAM4 – Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions for Planet, People, and Human Health”, we are looking with an immediate starting date and limited until 14.10.2027 for a research assistant

Application Deadline expired: Job Advertisment: Research Assistant (f/m/diverse) BioCAM4

To strengthen our project „BioCAM4 – Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions for Planet, People, and Human Health“, we are with an immediate starting date and limited until 14.10.2027 looking for a research assistant

Displacement and Social Cohesion: Solutions at the local, national, and regional levels

Martin-Shields, Charles / Merlin Flaig (2025)
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Taking climate change seriously in the design of trade agreements

Brandi, Clara / Kateryna Holzer / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Harro van Asselt (2025)
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The social contract: a lens to design socially just climate policies in Germany

Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / Daniele Malerba / Markus Loewe (2025)
The Current Column, 04. March 2025

Ending harmful subsidies could free billions to cut emissions, improve public health, and strengthen social services. To ensure fair compensation for all affected groups by subsidy cuts, the new government should approach the reform as a renegotiation of the existing social contract.

The impacts of disasters on capital flows, International reserves and exchange rates: implications for public sector financial risk management and development lenders

Lo, Yuen / Ulrich Volz (2025)
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Questioning growthism: Why and how we should question growth

Malerba, Daniele (2025)
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Debates on the feasibility and necessity of continuous economic growth have increased, not least due to the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and the current polycrises. Thinking about degrowth models to reduce material consumption and production in the richer countries must strongly involve lower-income countries to avoid a neo-colonial research agenda. It is also closely linked to the need for greater equity in global systems