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Energy systems, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report of WGIII: mitigation of climate change

Bruckner, Thomas / Igor Alexeyevich Bashmakov / Yacob Mulugetta, with contributions from Ariel Macaspac Hernandez et al. (2014)
External Publications

Integrated water resources management under different hydrological, climatic and socio-economic conditions: results and lessons learned from a transdisciplinary IWRM project IWAS

Seegert, Jörg / Thomas Berendonk / Christian Bernhofer / Frank Blumensaat / Ines Dombrowsky / Christoph Fuehner / Jens Grundmann / Nina Hagemann / Thomas Kalbacher / Frank-Dieter Kopinke / Rudolf Liedl / Marco Leidel / Carsten Lorz / Frank Makeschin / Dar (2014)
External Publications

NAZCA portal: capturing and catalysing climate action at all levels

Chan, Sander / Pieter Pauw / Harro van Asselt / Thomas Hale / Todd Edwards (2014)
External Publications

The UN and a new set of goals: Fit-for-Purpose?

Bonn, 12. December 2014

While the United Nations (UN) are central to the process of determining the new set of goals that will follow the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, there has been little introspection on its own organisational capacity to help countries to meet them. Which role should it play in the implementation of the new agenda? How does the…

REDD and Beyond

Lima, 04. December 2014

REDD+, PES and private forest finance gained importance in Latin America over the last years. But how effective are these various instruments with regard to forest protection? How socially inclusive are they with respect to indigenous communities and other vulnerable forest users? And how fair are the proposed benefit-sharing mechanisms?…

Introduction to "United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development"

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

A strong voice for global sustainable development: how China can play a leading role in the post-2015 agenda

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Risks and side-effects of global frameworks: what lessons for the post-2015 agenda?

Fues, Thomas (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development: perspectives from China and Europe

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (eds.) (2014)
Studies 84

The book reflects current thinking among scholars in China and Germany on the post-2015 global development agenda. The contributions from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the German Development Institute reflect differences, but also surprising convergence of perspectives.

Illicit Financial Flows and the post-2015 agenda

Bonn, 23. September 2014

Tax abuse constitutes a massive headwind against development. One common form of it is trade misinvoicing, used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to shift funds to affiliates in other jurisdictions that tax profits at lower rates or not at all. Global Financial Integrity estimates that $4.7 trillion were thus siphoned out of developing…

The UN post-2015 agenda: How Europe and China can take the lead

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (2014)
The Current Column, 12. September 2014

Starting this week, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will engage in negotiations over the post-2015 agenda for global development. The European Union and China are likely candidates for a pro-active stance at the United Nations.

DCF and the international development system

Fues, Thomas (2014)
External Publications

Unrequited love: What is the legacy of the first Global Partnership summit?

Fues, Thomas / Stephan Klingebiel (2014)
The Current Column, 17. April 2014

The Mexican government has hosted the most important conference on development co-operation (DC) issues since the Busan meeting at the end of 2011.

South-South Cooperation and the Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development

Mexico City, 16. April 2014

First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation The event covered mainly two aspects of the topic in the following two sections. 1. The first section focused on “Mutual Accountability and South-South Cooperation in the Post-2015 Agenda”. In the post-2015 debate, global accountability features…

Sustainable dam development in Turkey: between europeanization and authoritarian governance

Scheumann, Waltina / Vera Baumann / Anna-Lena Mueller / Dennis Mutschler / Sylvia Ismail / Thomas Walent (2014)
External Publications

A strong voice for global sustainable development: how China can play a leading role in the Post-2015 Agenda

Ye, Jiang / Thomas Fues (2014)
Briefing Paper 2/2014

The paper analyses the position of China in the UN process for a post-2015 global development agenda and formulates policy recommendations for the Chinese leadership which would enhance the country’s contributions to the developing world and the provision of global public goods.

2014

2014 Jump to: 2014 Januar 2015 Dezember November October September August July June May April March February January 2014 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Januar 2015 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking: DIE gut platziert Im aktuellen 2014 Global Go To Think Tank-Ranking erlangte das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in der Kategorie Top International Development Think Tanks mit dem 12. Platz erneut eine gute Position.…

2013

2013 Jump to: Archive 2013 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2013 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep . Oct. Nov. Dec. December Aid on the edge of chaos - reviewThe solutions Ben Ramalingam offers to the problems in the aid system are innovative ways of aligning aid with its complex environment and introduces 'exotic' new development terms, describe Heiner Janus and Sebastian Paulo in their review.…

Bureaucratic structure, geographic location and the autonomy of administrative systems

Henökl, Thomas / Jarle Trondal (2013)
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Inside the External Action Service: the impact of organisational change on the European political order

Henökl, Thomas (2013)
External Publications