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Scaling up green investment in the Global South: strengthening domestic financial resource mobilisation and attracting patient International capital

Volz, Ulrich / Yuen Lo / Vaibhav Mishra (2024)
External Publications

Addressing climate goals and the SDGs through a just energy transition? Empirical evidence from Germany and South Africa

Hägele, Ramona / Gabriela I. Iacobuţă / James Tops (2022)
External Publications

The SDGs on the threshold of Germany’s election year 2021

Kranholdt, Dominic (2020)
The Current Column, 19. November 2020

The Bundestag debate on sustainability could serve as momentum to bring the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals into focus in the 2021 election year.

New rules, same practice? Analysing UN Development System reform effects at the country level

Weinlich, Silke / Max-Otto Baumann / Maria Cassens-Sasse / Rebecca Hadank-Rauch / Franziska Leibbrandt / Marie Pardey / Manuel Simon / Anina Strey (2022)
Discussion Paper 3/2022

Has the recent reform of the UN development system led to a better collective offer to developing countries, in line with the 2030 Agenda and its requirements? The paper presents the main findings, conclusions, and recommendations from research on reform implementation.

On the dilemma of flying for sustainability

Schwachula, Anna / Okka Lou Mathis / Daniele Malerba / Ramona Hägele (2019)
The Current Column, 27. September 2019

Mass mobilization of civil society is increasing global pressure to adopt more ambitious climate policies. A blessing for some people. But with the new consciousness, another debate comes into focus.

Wastewater reuse in nexus perspective

Dresden, 17. May 2017

Moderation Birguy Lamizana , UNEP Co-chairs Ines Dombrowsky , German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Tamara Avellan , UNU-FLORES The seminar explored the opportunities of using wastewater within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food and energy crops. In this approach the…

Fragmented development cooperation in the age of the 2030 Agenda

Klingebiel, Stephan / Timo Mahn / Mario Negre (2016)
The Current Column, 11. July 2016

Fragmentation is hugely relevant to the future of the 2030 Agenda. Intensive efforts to tackle the issue of fragmentation are the urgent order of the day.

Building Better Dams

Bonn, 04. February 2020

More than 3,700 large dams are planned or under construction worldwide, to service growing demands for energy, irrigation, urban water or flood control. This new generation of dam schemes, most in ‘developing countries’, has the potential to make a significant contribution towards achieving economic growth, the UN Sustainable Development…

Financing sustainable investments takes more than goodwill

Lindenberg, Nannette (2013)
The Current Column, 02. September 2013

New Climate Leadership

San Francisco, 13. September 2018

Panel 1: 14h-15.30h New Global Leadership in the Climate Regime without the U.S. Federal Government The climate regime requires leadership in a variety of areas, from actors willing to enhance the scope of ambition on emissions mitigation to those willing to provide climate finance for mitigation and adaptation. Leadership is needed in…

Privatisation Risks Leaving People Behind

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer (2019)
The Current Column, 18. March 2019

World water day 2019 focuses on the roughly 2.1 billion people in the world still lacking access to safe water. Nevertheless, governments and donor countries need to make sure that SDG implementation does not lend itself for privatisation of community water supply systems.

Localising the SDGs in India: the role of government and private training institutes

Sengupta, Sreerupa / Avik Sinha (2022)
Discussion Paper 1/2022

Capacity development in the public sector is essential for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study explores the SDG training landscape for government officials in India by mapping the role of government and private players, the resources required and current shortcomings.

Employment creation through industrial policy in the MENA countries

Bonn, 21. September 2018

Lack of productive employment is one of the most pressing challenges of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). No other region in the world has such high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Policy makers across the region are extremely concerned about the problem but have not yet been able to identify an effective…

Climate conference in Bonn: good COP or bad COP?

Bauer, Steffen (2017)
The Current Column, 15. November 2017

Two years after adopting the Paris Agreement in 2015, the UN Climate Change Conference reconvenes in Bonn for COP23 to advice the agreement's implementation. They seek to find ways of increasing their nationally determined contributions in the short term without losing sight of national and international development goals in the process.

Financing global development: Is impact investing an investment model with potential or just blowing smoke?

Lindenberg, Nannette / Caroline Pöll (2015)
Briefing Paper 20/2015

Impact investing intends to finance projects, organisations and social enterprises to intentionally create a measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. Their advocates see impact bonds as a useful instrument for financing the 2030 agenda, but many challenges remain.

International cooperation policy for sustainability transformations in disruptive times

Berger, Axel / Priyadarshi Dash / Paula von Haaren / Lena-Marie Putz / André de Mello e Souza (2025)
Policy Brief 22/2025

As global disruptions and power dynamics are reshaping aid and trade, how can low- and middle-income countries build resilience and new alliances? This policy brief explores how disruption can trigger new forms of cooperation.

Governance of natural resources for the common good

Cluster "Governance of natural resources for the common good": Natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity provide the basis for human existence. On a global scale, we are seeing the rapidly advancing overuse and degradation of natural resources.

Are results-based approaches key to implementing the 2030 Agenda in development cooperation?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel (2016)
The Current Column, 09. May 2016

At the heart of the major development policy events of 2016 lies the question: how can development cooperation provide targeted support for achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2030 Agenda? A total of USD 132 billion was spent on official devel-opment assistance worldwide in 2015. While this fund-ing merely supplements other initiatives supporting the achievement of the SDGs in areas such as financial, trade and taxation policy, it still needs to be used as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Green economy – Options for sustainable consumption

Never, Babette (2017)
The Current Column, 25. April 2017

For the first time, the achievement of sustainable consumption and production patterns has been explicitly codified (as Sustainable Development Goal 12) in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Yet little attention has so far been paid to consumption in discussions on sustainable business practices.

Biodiversity is good for you!

Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2019)
The Current Column, 20. May 2019

Species protection must become a cross-sectoral task of sustainable development