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Mobilising private adaptation finance: developed country perspectives

Pauw, Pieter (2017)
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Global Climate Action 2022: how have international initiatives delivered, and what more is possible

Kuramochi, Takeshi / Sander Chan / Sybrig Smit / Andrew Deneault / Natalie Pelekh (2022)
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Bridging the Gap - the role of non-state action

Höhne, Niklas / Philip Drost with the contributing authors Fatemeh Bakhtiari / Sander Chan / Ann Gardiner et al. (2016)
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It’s time to look beyond the UN’s $100bn climate finance target

Dzebo, Adis / Pieter Pauw (2014)
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Social acceptance of social transfer policies: the role of climate vulnerabilities and policy design

Roost, Stefanie (2025)
Discussion Paper 36/2025

As climate shocks grow, can social protection keep its legitimacy? Drawing on survey experiments in Brazil, this study shows how voters balance fairness, costs, and conditionalities; and how climate framing nudges attitudes toward solidarity.

Build now, pay later: Frontloading poor countries’ climate mitigation investment

Kraemer, Moritz / Ulrich Volz / Dirk Schoenmaker (2022)
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The first Trillion is the hardest: how to raise the necessary funds for poor countries’ climate mitigation investments

Kraemer, Moritz / Ulrich Volz (2025)
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To enable low-income and lower-middle-income countries to invest in climate mitigation, we propose in a the establishment of a Finance Facility against Climate Change (F2C2) that would raise USD1 trillion.

Prioritizing Africa’s Needs: how to strengthen Africa-German cooperation on migration

Ekoh, Susan (2023)
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Germany’s Africa policy must maximize co-benefits by focusing on the migration-development nexus, argues Susan Ekoh (IDOS). The government needs to mainstream climate change needs in migration cooperation due to the present realities and future projections of climate-induced mobilities.

Towards sustainable ocean governance: a call for blue climate action in international development

Lehmann, Ina / Michael Siebert / Nicola Hanke / Maximilian Högl / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
Briefing Paper 22/2021

Sustainable ocean governance is of vital importance for human development. And yet life in the ocean is strongly threatened by human economic activities. This Briefing Paper outlines the way forward for a sustainable blue economy that is inclusive of local stakeholders.

From Geneva to Copenhagen: what does the World Trade Conference have to do with the World Climate Conference?

Wiemann, Jürgen (2009)
The Current Column, 14. December 2009

DIE-Director Messner elected as Chair of PIK’s Scientific Advisory Board

DIE-Director Messner elected as Chair of PIK’s Scientific Advisory Board DIE-Director Messner elected as Chair of PIK’s Scientific Advisory Board Press Release of 22 February 2010 Today, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has elected Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), to its Chair. The international membership of the Advisory Board…

Framing a long-term response to climate finance

Berlin, 20. November 2014

In 2010, the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) agreed to establish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as a global investment vehicle for climate finance. At the GCF High-Level Pledging Conference hosted by the German Federal Government on 20 November 2014 in Berlin, governments pledged a total of 9.3 billion USD to the Fund for its initial…

From public to private climate change adaptation finance: adapting finance or financing adaptation?

Pauw, Pieter (2017)
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Parallels between the corona pandemic and climate change

Fuhrmann, Hanna / Sascha Kuhn (2020)
The Current Column, 01. April 2020

Measures are being taken all over the world to slow down the spread of the virus and minimise the economic damage. In this situation, behavioural change of individuals is indispensable.

The EU and the Glasgow Dialogue: advancing a balanced approach to loss and damage

Anisimov, Ariadna / Mariya Aleksandrova / Steffen Bauer / Lola Vallejo (2022)
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Scaling up sustainable finance to enable sustainable economic recovery

Volz, Ulrich / Kathrin Berensmann / Stephany Griffith-Jones / Anthony Lacavaro / Irene Monasterolo (2022)
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New international cooperation approaches_Lessons from Climate Politics – a Chinese Perspective

Bonn, 10. February 2014

China’s 12th Five Years Plan, with its ambitions to turn China into a model of low-carbon growth, reflects the enormous and uncontested efforts in the recent domestic climate policy of China. Yet, at an international level, negotiations for a global deal on CO2-reductions are constantly at an impasse. Do we need a change of perspectives…

Health, climate and geopolitical relations

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2022)
The Current Column, 17. January 2022

2022 has the task of significantly advancing the management of the pandemic, redesigning our economic and social systems, and negotiating a multi-polar and rule-based world order.

“We need to build shock resilience” - Interview

Messner, Dirk (2017)
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Rutte zegt vandaag in Parijs dit, hij bedoelt iets anders

Pauw, Pieter (2015)
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