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The European Green Deal and the war in Ukraine: addressing crises in the short and long term

Iacobuţă, Gabriela Ileana / Alexia Faus Onbargi et al. (2022)
External Publications

Editorial: Constructing ocean and polar governance

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Hubert Zimmermann (2022)
External Publications

Governability of regional challenges: the Arctic development paradox

Łuszczuk, Michał / Jacqueline Götze / Katarzyna Radzik‐Maruszak / Arne Riedel / Dorothea Wehrmann (2022)
External Publications

BRT Transjakarta: phasing in, performing and expanding a new system within a consolidated urban area: Report for the “Inclusive and sustainable smart cities in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” Project

Jauregui-Fung, Franco (2022)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Corona and development cooperation

Special "The Corona Virus and international development cooperation": Experts from IDOS explore the developmental and socioeconomic consequences of the corona crisis.

Water Governance

Special "Water Governance": Researchers at IDOS analyse water governance problems to understand conditions for equitable, ecologically sustainable water use, access, and control.

‘Nothing is more permanent than the temporary’ – Understanding protracted displacement and people's own responses

Etzold, Benjamin / Elvan Isikozlu / Simone Christ et al. (2022)
External Publications

Development cooperation and climate change: the quest for orientation in a challenging context

Klingebiel, Stephan (2022)
External Publications

Prevention of Corruption

Prevention of Corruption Our goals in applying the Public Corporate Governance Code By applying the Public Corporate Governance Code of the Federal Government and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, IDOS is pursuing the goal of continuing to ensure the balanced interaction of the four important bodies - the shareholders, management, Board of Trustees and the International Scientific Advisory Board newly constituted in February 2023 - within the framework of the…

Think7: G7 faces landmark decisions for the well-being of humanity

In addition to more ambitious climate protection, the major industrialized countries must do more to combat the global food and debt crisis and make healthcare systems more resilient worldwide. So far, the G7 has failed to protect its citizens from digital corporations and data abuse. Moreover, there is still a lack of common standards to measure progress in social and environmental projects.

DIE becomes the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Press release, Bonn, 23 June 2022: Established in 1964 as the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) gGmbh, the Institute became the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) on 23 June 2022.

Catchment, streams and sewers: Strengthening flood resilience in Bonn

Subramanian, Saravanan / Katharina Höreth / Nathalie Sänger / Diego Jara / Lutz Becker (2022)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Climate change: threat or potential opportunity for social contracts in the MENA region?

Houdret, Annabelle / Markus Loewe (2022)
External Publications

Climate change, natural resource degradation and lack of inclusiveness challenge existing social contracts in the Middle East and North Africa. This think piece looks at how environmental factors influence governments’ scope of action to deliver on their duties of protection, provision and participation within current social contracts and proposes an alternative solution that can work for both people and planet.

Investigating Synergies in Development Cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Germany

Ewha Womans University and online via Zoom, 22. June 2022

This informal workshop is organised in the context of a joint research project between by Ewha Womans University and the German Development Institute, which explores synergies between Korean and German development cooperation and their wider multilateral engagement. The aim of this workshop is to take stock of the current challenging…

Addressing human mobility in national climate policy: insights from updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in South America

Serraglio, Diogo Andreola / Benjamin Schraven / Natalia Burgos Cuevas (2022)
Briefing Paper 4/2022

Given the urgent need to move forward from the recognition of the human mobility - climate change nexus to the establishment of effective measures to tackle the topic, the updating of NDCs entails an opportunity to incorporate strategies that can better address population movements in this context.

Challenging the imperial mode of living by challenging ELSEWHERE: Spatial narratives and justice

Dünckmann, Florian / Jonas Hein / Silja Klepp (2022)
External Publications

Keeping global sustainability in mind

Berger, Axel (2022)
The Current Column, 20. June 2022

The German Government launched an ambitious sustainability agenda in early 2022 as part of its G7 Presidency. Less than two months later, it was confronted with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, requiring a change of priorities and calling old certainties into question.

Is foreign direct investment losing clout in development?

Berger, Axel / Alexandros Ragoussis (2022)
Briefing Paper 2/2022

This Briefing Paper calls for rethinking of policies that help to improve the impact of FDI to development. We argue that four secular trends invite for a conversation on a renewed basis around the kind of foreign investment we want and expectations on this source of finance for development.

Meeting the world’s demand for Wellbeing with less resources

Bauer, Steffen / Babette Never (2022)
The Current Column, 13. June 2022

The outcome of the Stockholm+50 summit now provides a universal reference point. Context-specific research on the enabling conditions for SCP and practical international cooperation can jointly support both the calibration and application of a global compass for wellbeing

Up-scaling co-benefits of sustainable consumption for development

Bonn, 13. June 2022

Environmentally sustainable consumption is now high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers in rich countries. In contrast, in developing countries the consuming middle classes are just emerging, mostly in cities, and concerns about the environmental footprint of consumption are only slowly entering the policy agenda. Given the…