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Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World

Online, 27. April 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of planetary health – a framework that recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health – in a world marred by the climate change and biodiversity crises, as well as growing inequalities between and within countries. With the WHO’s calls for vaccine equity…

Social Cohesion in Africa: Where do we stand? Where are we heading to?

Online, 26. April 2022

This is the third event of the Social Cohesion Webinar Series, organized by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice Team at the World Bank and the Social Cohesion Team at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). The purpose of this seminar series is bringing together leading…

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…

WTO 2.0 – Making the multilateral trading system fit for the 21st century and how the G7 can help

Mildner, Stormy-Annika / Claudia Schmucker / Clara Brandi / Anja von Moltke / Marianne Schneider-Petsinger / Jeffrey J. Schott / Davide Tentori (2022)
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2022 Jump to: Dezember 2022 November 2022 Oktober 2022 September 2022 August 2022 Juli 2022 Juni 2022 Mai 2022 April 2022 März 2022 Februar 2022 Januar 2022 Dezember 2022 Die Ampel und die Religion: Weniger Interesse am R-Faktor Eigentlich will die Bundesregierung den Bereich „Religion und Außenpolitik“ stärken. Auch im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat das Interesse am R-Faktor nachgelassen. Zwar gehe die Kooperation mit…

Low carbon technology solutions and transitions

Online, 07. April 2022

A wealthy low-carbon economic development is hardly conceivable without technological innovation and changes in socio-technical systems (Rosenbloom et al 2020). Achieving net-zero emissions while not jeopardizing efforts to reduce poverty requires innovation and a fast transition towards zero emissions across all sectors including energy,…

Special: Russia's war against Ukraine

Russia's invasion in violation of international law marks a turning point in global politics. The DIE examines the far-reaching consequences, including for development cooperation and for German foreign and security policy.

Political scientist Dr Axel Berger new Deputy Director at DIE

Press Release of 31 March 2022. On 1 April 2022, Dr Axel Berger will take over the position of the Deputy Director at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Impact of conditional cash transfers on enrolment in community-based health insurance among female-headed households in south Gondar zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia

Mussa, Essa Chanie / Dessie Agegnehu / Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo (2022)
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Digging Deeper

Online, 23. March 2022

This year's theme for World Water Day is “Groundwater - making the invisible visible”. Although not directly observable with our eyes, groundwater represents the largest share of our global freshwater resources. Especially in many arid and semi-arid areas, where the potential for surface water use has already been exhausted, groundwater…

Charting a roadmap towards deep decarbonisation

Online, 22. March 2022

Worldwide decarbonization is not on track. While the magnitude of the challenge is beyond doubt, as well as the fact that inaction now drastically increases the costs of decarbonisation in the future, decision-makers around the world are shying away from determined action. While this is partly due to political opportunism, it also…

Carbon pricing and complementary incentives

Online, 22. March 2022

Most emitters do not pay for the harm they are doing. Arguably, the single most important measure for decarbonisation is to introduce a carbon price that is high enough to curb emissions below internationally agreed thresholds for global warming. One of the big advantages of carbon pricing over other policies is the following: It creates…

Governing land-sea interactions – an urgent necessity in the Anthropocene

Manlosa, Aisa O. / Achim Schlüter / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
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How groundwater overexploitation relates to social contracts

Houdret, Annabelle / Birgit Kemmerling / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
The Current Column, 21. March 2022

The overexploitation of groundwater in the MENA region is closely related to social contracts. There is thus a need for a societal debate about water allocation.

Putins Krieg und die Sünden des Westens

Klingebiel, Stephan (2022)
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Warum Russlands Aggression in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern nicht einhellig verurteilt wird – und was das mit dem Irak-Krieg 2003 oder der Unterstützung afrikanischer Freiheitsbewegungen durch die Sowjetunion zu tun hat.

It’s time to shift gears towards a balanced and equitable climate policy

Bauer, Steffen / Idil Boran (2022)
The Current Column, 07. March 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the latest instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report (“AR6”). The landmark report comes at a time when stakes are particularly high.

Enablers of ambitious climate action: challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development

Iacobuta, Gabriela (2021)
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Localisation of global refugee policies the case of Kenya and Kalobeyei

Dick, Eva (2022)
External Publications

Analysing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus from a polycentric governance perspective: Conceptual and methodological framework

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
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To regulate or not to regulate? Jordan’s approach to digital ride-hailing platform Careem

Zintl, Tina (2022)
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