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Come on, into the “Green Twenties”!

Bauer, Steffen (2021)
The Current Column, 19. April 2021

“Restore Our Earth!” is the theme and rallying cry for this year’s Earth Day on 22 April. This is not something that can be achieved on a single day.

Investment facilitation for development: a toolkit for policymakers

Berger, Axel / Karl Sauvant (2021)
External Publications

Exploring South African 'Green Leadership' in the context of the European Green Deal

Chevallier, Romy / Alex Benkenstein (2021)
External Publications

De-Globalization and the Future of GVCs

Online, 20. April 2021

The online seminar series aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and instead aims to promote the translation of academic…

The ambiguous partner: Mexico and the European Green Deal

Ruano, Lorena (2021)
External Publications

Identity and discourse within diverse international networks: the Managing Global Governance network seen through the lenses of thematic oral history

Domínguez, J. Carlos (2021)
Discussion Paper 14/2021

The analysis interlinks long-term life trajectories of MGG network members with their experiences of the MGG Academy. It shows how individual identities intersect with a collective sense of belonging to the program and to the network.

COVID-19 und Naturschutz: Strategien zur Krisenbewältigung für Mensch und Natur

Lehmann, Ina / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Anna Spenceley (2021)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 2/2021

Die COVID-19-Pandemie ist eng mit der globalen Biodiversitätskrise verknüpft. Dieses Paper zeigt, wie die Pandemie den Druck auf natürliche Ressourcen im Globalen Süden erhöht und welche Lösungsansätze die Naturschutzpolitik nun verfolgen sollte.

Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation: work in progress at the United Nations

Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Discussion Paper 15/2021

This paper shows how the United Nations (UN) has tried to mainstream support for South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC). It provides a scorecard of UN entities and identifies key factors that condition the heterogeneous and increasingly controversial trajectory of SSTC at the UN.

Renewable energy consumption in Africa: evidence from a bias corrected dynamic panel

Baye, Richmond / Allesandro Olper / Albert Ahenkan /Issa Justice Musah-Surugu /Samuel Weniga Anuga / Samuel Darkwah (2021)
External Publications

Newly founded African-German Leadership Academy fosters mutual learning on sustainability

Press Release: Shaping sustainable economic and social change together - that is the aim of the newly established BMZ African-German Leadership Academy.

About the need for a public debate about social cohesion and democracy

Leininger, Julia / Armin von Schiller (2021)
The Current Column, 28. April 2021

Against what many “preached” at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, societies did not become stronger through the crisis.

Proposals to make the T20 a more impactful, effective, and continuous think tank process

Berger, Axel / Imme Scholz / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Sait Akman / Jann Lay / Gustavo Martinez / Stormy Mildner / Amrita Narlikar / Andrea Ordóñez / Claudia Schmucker / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos / Sébastien Treyer (2021)
External Publications

The second hand market for air conditioners in Metro Manila. Business models, resource use, policy options

Never, Babette (2021)
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How COVID-19 is highlighting the benefits of a localisation of development cooperation

Roll, Michael / Tim Kornprobst (2021)
The Current Column, 03. May 2021

The pandemic shows that greater localisation can make development cooperation more participatory and possibly more effective and sustainable.

Zu Hebeln gewendet?

, 04. May 2021

Um die international vereinbarten Nachhaltigkeits- und Klimaziele zu erreichen, müssen Deutschland und die Europäische Union (EU) die externen Wirkungen ihrer eigenen Wirtschafts- und Lebensweisen sowie ihre auswärtigen Beziehungen und Kooperationen so umgestalten, dass diese Ziele auch in anderen Ländern unterstützt und erreicht werden.…

Benefits and challenges of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development for Latin American economies

Online, 05. May 2021

Investment facilitation can be understood as a set of measures concerned, among other things, with improving the transparency and predictability of investment frameworks, streamlining procedures related to foreign investors and enhancing coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders, to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)…

Seven principles to guide German development policy

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10. May 2021

For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?

Finanz.Macht.Zukunft

Online, 17. May 2021

Der Beirätedialog 2021 wird am 17. Mai 2021 online stattfinden. Bei der Überwindung der Corona-Krise und der Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft gewinnt das Thema Finanzen über alle Politikfelder hinweg zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Bundesregierung stellt in ihrer Dialogfassung der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie 2021 Finanzen als einen von fünf…

To save biodiversity, transform the economy

Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
The Current Column, 17. May 2021

As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.

UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems

Online, 18. May 2021

A key challenge for sustainable water management and thus sustainable development as a whole is the complexity of human-water-systems. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and the targeted processing of research results are central for a better understanding and sustainable implementation of knowledge. This is where the new UNESCO…