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The G20 Summit Was More Successful than You Think

Messner, Dirk / Dennis Snower (2018)
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13. Käte Hamburger Dialogue

Berlin, 29. April 2019

The core idea of this event was to reflect ongoing peace operations in Afghanistan and Mali, which are both of high interest for European and German policy. Several thousand soldiers and policemen are seconded to stabilizations missions in both countries. Both missions seem to be located at a crossroads between the substantive interests…

Ethnopluralism / New Right

Essen, 22. November 2016

Extremists of any shape are again at the centre of attention. Radicalization undermines the cultural conditions for cooperation. At the same time some forms of political extremism increase the need for global cooperation by creating new tasks that can't be solved on the national level. In the series 'Narratives of the Extreme' various…

Carbon and biodiversity offsetting: A way towards sustainable development?

Hein, Jonas / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2016)
The Current Column, 18. March 2016

21 of March is the International Day of Forests. For this year’s celebration we are raising awareness on how conservation practices have changed.

Global Governance and the State of Nuclear Weapons

Berlin, 12. June 2013

The agenda on nuclear disarmament has come to a standstill. This was the sombre assessment of Professor Ramesh Thakur , as he opened the 5th Käte Hamburger Lecture on 12 June in Berlin. The number of nuclear weapons had indeed gone down over recent decades, he said, but there were still almost 18,000 of them in existence - 2,000 available…

Girndt, Antje

Executive assistant Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation.

The G20 before the Hamburg Summit

Bonn, 20. June 2017

In July 2017, leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Hamburg, Germany, for their annual summit, discussing matters of international cooperation among the world’s most powerful economies. Since the summit fell during a period of heightened international turbulence, the outcome and ambition of the G20 process under Germany’s leadership were…

The End of Citizenship

Duisburg, 21. November 2016

Citizenship has been one of the central idea(l)s of modern political thought. By combining rights, membership in a political community and political participation many considered the endowment of all those subjected to a political and/or social order with citizenship as a necessary and possibly even sufficient condition for the legitimacy…

PRODIGEES – Digitalisation and Sustainability

, 31. March 2020

On March 30, 2020 members from the MGG network and beyond held the kick-off meeting for the new EU Horizon2020 project PRODIGEES “ Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe Towards Sustainable Development ”. Due to the Covid-19 situation, the meeting was not held in Berlin, as originally planned, but as a series…

The G20 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Scholz, Imme / Clara Brandi (2020)
External Publications

Climate Engineering: Buying time to contain global warming?

Bonn, 30. October 2019

Radical de-carbonization can still allow containing atmospheric GHG levels to a degree that may allow keeping global warming to less than +2°C above pre-industrial times, perhaps even below +1.5°C. A growing number of researchers, however, see a clear risk that GHG emissions may not be reduced at the required speed. Climate engineering…

International think tanks respond to German G7 priorities

Press release of 20 January 2022: G7 Sherpa Jörg Kukies reveals German G7 priorities to international experts / Meeting of scientists from major industrialized countries launches Think7 process

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…

DIE china expert Doris Fischer accepts professorship at University of Würzburg

DIE china expert Doris Fischer accepts professorship at University of Würzburg DIE china expert Doris Fischer accepts professorship at University of Würzburg Press Release of 6 March 2012 Doris Fischer of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has accepted the offer of a full professorship for China Business and Economics at the University of Würzburg . At DIE Doris Fischer worked on the interrelation between innovation…

With Germany’s G20 presidency coming to a close, DIE and IfW hand over T20 leadership to Argentinian partners

With Germany’s G20 presidency coming to a close, DIE and IfW hand over T20 leadership to Argentinian partners DIE and IfW hand over T20 leadership to Argentinian partners Joint press release by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) 11 October 2017 Washington D.C., On Tuesday, representatives from the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik…

Global Summit Prenegotiation: The Case of the Australian G20 Presidency

Bonn, 31. May 2016

Public Lecture with Larry Crump In 2017, Germany will take over the G20 presidency after China. After ‘middle powers’ such as Australia and Turkey chaired the G20 for years, global economic heavyweights are now taking over. While continuity and effectivity have become crucial for G20 to maintain its relevance, we know little about the…

Development Finance in Times of Multiple Crises

Online, 13. March 2024

Development finance faces a range of challenges in times of multiple crises. On this background, upcoming summits and forums should provide opportunities to enable progress. On 13 March, the IDOS finance team hosted an online event titled „Development Finance in Times of Multiple Crises„. Moderated by Christoph Sommer (IDOS), the event…

DIE expert Grimm heads the Centre for Chinese Studies in South Africa

DIE expert Grimm heads the Centre for Chinese Studies in South Africa DIE expert Grimm heads the Centre for Chinese Studies in South Africa Press Release of 11 January 2011 Sven Grimm , long-term researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), is new Director at the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa since the beginning of this year. During his time at DIE, Grimm worked…

Taking stock of 2030 Agenda: are we making progress with integrated implementation?

Janetschek, Hannah / Imme Scholz (2017)
The Current Column, 24. July 2017

How should the thematic reviews of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) be designed so that they take account of the integrated nature of the 2030 Agenda.

Anniversary event - 60 Years of IDOS

Berlin, 14. March 2024

Science for Development. 60 years of research, policy advice and training for development policy and cooperation The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS, formerly the German Development Institute, DIE) was founded in March 1964 with the mandate to train practitioners and post-graduates for working in the new field of…