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NDC-SDG Connections: Data on first NDC submissions (V1)

Iacobuţă, Gabriela / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo (2023)
Research Data

Financing Sustainable Development in Disruptive Times

Online, 23. May 2025

Escalating geopolitical tensions, shrinking development aid, and rising debt burdens are severely constraining the ability of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to invest in sustainable development. At the same time, the global financial architecture remains fragmented and key instruments to redistribute capital - such as…

Financing Sustainable Development in Disruptive Times

Online, 23. May 2025

Escalating geopolitical tensions, shrinking development aid, and rising debt burdens are severely constraining the ability of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to invest in sustainable development. At the same time, the global financial architecture remains fragmented and key instruments to redistribute capital - such as…

Low-emission hydrogen: global value chain opportunities for latecomers and industrial policy challenges

Altenburg, Tilman / Rita Strohmaier (2025)
External Publications

The stabilization and destabilization of marine carbon observations: co-producing knowledge in murky waters

Hägele, Ramona (2025)
External Publications

NDC Explorer

Special "NDC Explorer": The NDC Explorer is an interactive tool, which made NDCs information accessible and usable online.

The marginalised as the weakest link in pandemics

Broocks, Anne-Katrin / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2020)
The Current Column, 11. May 2020

How is the spread of the coronavirus related to marginalisation? An analysis of Guayaquil, the major Ecuadorian city bearing the brunt of Covid-19.

Transforming the global energy system – where do we stand?

Pegels, Anna (2012)
The Current Column, 20. August 2012

New initiative to protect “environmental refugees”: good but not yet sufficient

Schraven, Benjamin / Steffen Bauer (2013)
The Current Column, 02. April 2013

Die Klimaschutzkonferenz in Poznan: 2 Grad, daneben

Horstmann, Britta / Anna Pegels / Lars Schmidt (2008)
The Current Column, 15. December 2008

The London G20 Summit: what has it entailed for the developing countries?

Wolff, Peter (2009)
The Current Column, 06. April 2009

Reforming International Institutions: From Wishful Thinking To Reality

Hulsman, John C. (2009)

Can we bring digitalisation and the environment together?

Lucatello, Simone / Wulf Reiners (2024)
The Current Column, 13. February 2024

Until today, the advent of digital tools has not led to a substantial shift toward sustainable alternatives.

The global race to subsidise green technologies

Altenburg, Tilman / Axel Berger/ Clara Brandi (2023)
The Current Column, 17. April 2023

If competition between major industrialised nations over subsidies is focused on key green technologies, then this will accelerate the urgently needed development of clean technologies.

The costs of making Egypt an intimate partner on security affairs

El-Haddad, Amirah / Jannis Grimm (2022)
The Current Column, 14. March 2022

The efforts by Western governments to make Egypt an intimate partner on security affairs carry significant economic and socio-political costs.

Why Germany’s hydrogen strategy needs supplementing with a multilateral agenda

Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier / Tilman Altenburg / Huri Ece Oyan / Katharina Thoms (2021)
The Current Column, 22. September 2021

Knowledge sharing and scientific cooperation are essential if developing countries are to be empowered to develop their own H2-based solutions.

Agricultural and food topics merit key role

Brüntrup, Michael (2019)
The Current Column, 06. May 2019

The agriculture ministers are kicking off the G20 series of ministerial meetings. Nevertheless, agriculture and food security have only recently become important topics in international policy-making.

What still needs to be said about the migration pact

Schraven, Benjamin / Eva Dick (2018)
The Current Column, 10. December 2018

The UN migration pact has been at the heart of an intense political debate in Germany in recent weeks. What could the pact achieve in practice?

Vier Punkte, wie die Entwicklungspolitik der Corona-Pandemie begegnen sollte

Pressemitteilung vom 06.04.2020: Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn, formuliert Vier-Punkte-Plan, wie die deutsche und internationale Entwicklungspolitik der Corona-Pandemie begegnen sollte

Africa’s untapped economic potential

Altenburg, Tilman (2020)
The Current Column, 27. January 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa needs 25 million new jobs a year. Radical changes in the global economy are unlocking fresh prospects, but domestic demand offers the greatest opportunity.