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Conference of the Parties (COP 21)

Paris, 30. November 2015

From 30 November to 11 December, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Paris. A new global agreement on climate change is to be adopted. This agreement will be decisive for future life on our planet. Climate change…

Chapter scientists in the IPCC AR5: experience and lessons

Schulte-Uebbing, Lena / Gerrit Hansen / Ariel Macaspac Hernández / MartenWinter (2015)
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Anticipating mediation with disaggregated conflict dynamics

Ruhe, Constantin (2015)
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Individualized medicine: ethical, economical and historical perspectives

Fischer, Tobias / Martin Langanke / Paul Marschall / Susanne Michl (eds.) (2015)
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¿Cuál es el estado de la inclusión social en el sector forestal en el Perú?

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Navigating the trilemma: central banking in East Asia between inflation targeting, exchange-rate management and guarding financial stability

Volz, Ulrich (2015)
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Behave and save? Behaviour, energy efficiency and performance of micro and small enterprises in Uganda

Never, Babette (2016)
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What does the Paris climate agreement mean for water policy?

Dombrowsky, Ines / Steffen Bauer / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
The Current Column, 22. March 2016

The Turkish-Syrian friendship dam on the Orontes River: benefits for all?

Scheumann, Waltina / Omar Shmaly (2016)
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The global refugee crisis: The key role of cities

Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2016)
The Current Column, 02. May 2016

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there were over 60 million displaced persons worldwide in 2015, a figure unparalleled since 1945.

G20: Concert of great powers or guardian of global well-being?

Fues, Thomas / Dirk Messner (2016)
Briefing Paper 9/2016

Eight years after its formation, the Group of 20 (G20) has consolidated its status as the power centre of global economic governance. In light of pressing challenges G20 leaders need to act as guardians of global well-being by supporting implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Financing Loss and Damage

Bonn, 17. May 2016

The workshop kicked off with an introduction to the idea of Loss and Damage in the context of the UNFCCC and set the stage to discuss how the issue of Loss and Damage has been evolving since COP-19 in Warsaw via COP-21 in Paris towards COP-22 in Marrakesh and beyond. Dedicated workshop sessions notably included a review of pertinent…

Shifting gears and forging ahead: Research for transformative climate governance after "Paris"

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Klaus Jacob (2016)
The Current Column, 18. May 2016

The Bonn Climate Change Conference 2016 provides a first litmus test for the value of the Paris deal – will it prove as 'historic' as it has been heralded in the wake of the Paris conference or will it turn into another paper tiger of international law?

2015

2015 Jump to: 2015 Dezember 2015 November 2015 Oktober 2015 September 2015 August 2015 Juli 2015 Juni 2015 Mai 2015 April 2015 März 2015 Februar 2015 Januar 2015 2015 Jan. Feb. Mär. Apr. Mai Juni Juli Aug. Sept . Okt . Nov . Dez . Dezember 2015 Dirk Messner zur WTO-Konferenz in Nairobi Im Interview erläutert DIE-Direktor Dirk Messner warum es wichtig ist, dass den Entwicklungsländern der Zugang zu den Märkten der Industrie- und Schwellenländern ermöglicht wird und…

Public-Private Partnerships in irrigation

Bonn, 01. June 2016

This year, the Dialogue on Water has been jointly organized by the German Development Institute /Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Experts from North African, sub-Saharan and European countries met with practitioners of German development cooperation,…

Getting to zero poverty and zero emissions

Brussels, 15. June 2016

The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, is a major breakthrough in our joint fight against climate change. In terms of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it will be the main instrument to reach SDG 13: 'Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.' Approaches such as the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project…

SSC’s contribution to achieving the SDGs

Nairobi, 19. July 2016

The panel debate was an informal ‘Davos style’ session where the facilitator probed key respondents to comment on questions regarding data management, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and accountability systems of new and emerging development partners, to better track the contribution that South-South co-operation is making to Agenda…

Wastewater reuse for enhanced food and non-food value chains

Stockholm, 28. August 2016

The seminar explored the opportunities of using wastewater and organic waste within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food and energy crops in urban transition zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this approach the wastewater is treated in a target-oriented manner to be used for irrigation and nutrient supply of the…

Climate change, land degradation & desertification

Bonn, 29. August 2016

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) welcomed Lindsay C. Stringer of the renowned Sustainability Research Institute of University of Leeds, UK, to present her new book Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change: Anticipating, assessing and adapting to future change (Earthscan 2016,…

Migration, risk management and climate change: evidence and policy responses (Global Migration Issues)

Milan, Andrea / Benjamin Schraven / Koko Warner / Noemi Cascone (eds.) (2016)
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