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UN at 70

Bonn, 16. April 2015

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. Both the world and the UN have changed since its 51 founding members signed the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 to prevent the doom of another World War. Today, the UN totals 193 member states while the nature and scope of the United Nations' activities have greatly expanded. Moreover,…

European Report on Development underlines crucial link between policy and finance for a successful post-2015 agenda

European Report on Development underlines crucial link between policy and finance for a successful post-2015 agenda European Report on Development underlines crucial link between policy and finance for a successful post-2015 agenda Brüssel, Bonn, 4 May 2015. Today the European Report on Development 2015 (ERD 2015) was officially launched in Brussels by the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica. ERD 2015 presents a new…

Energy efficiency management in Ugandan SMEs: assessing the role of behaviour

Never, Babette (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Bonn Conference for Global Transformation

, 12. May 2015

Programme on Tuesday 12 May: 11:30 h Panel Global Transformation – one target, different views While there is broad, if not universal agreement on the need for a global transformation for sustainable development, there is far less agreement on its urgency, priorities, on individual and collective responsibilities, on binding rules and…

Post-2015: recharging governance of United Nations development

Helgason, Kristinn Sv. / Silke Weinlich (2015)
Briefing Paper 6/2015

Three options are proposed to make the UN governance arrangements fit for the delivery of the new sustainable development agenda.

Politische Ökonomie der deutschen Energiewende

Berlin, 20. May 2015

Welche politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Treiber und Hemmnisse beeinflussen die deutsche Energiewende? Wie können Maßnahmen insbesondere in den Bereichen Infrastruktur, Marktregulierung, Innovation und Finanzierung zu einem tragfähigen Konsens zwischen relevanten Akteuren beitragen? Diesen und weiteren Fragen wollen wir…

Why the European Union needs a new global strategy

Messner, Dirk / Imme Scholz (2015)
The Current Column, 20. May 2015

The EU's Foreign and Defense Ministers have met in Brussels on Monday. One point on their long agenda was the strategic review of the EU's security environment and the challenges and opportunities arising for the EU.

INDCs: A silver bullet for the climate negotiations, or empty talk?

Pauw, Pieter / Kennedy Mbeva (2015)
The Current Column, 26. May 2015

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) were born with a big bang at the UN climate negotiations in 2013. Friends and foes soon considered them instrumental to reach a global climate agreement in Paris in December 2015. The INDCs break new ground because they are universal: all countries will formulate contributions to address climate change, not just the industrialised countries. INDCs are the talk of the day at climate workshops and conferences, and expectations are huge. Yet, this might all prove to be empty talk and hope in vain, unless some critical issues are going to be solved in the coming months.

Let’s walk our talk: from the July 2015 Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, down the Road to Dignity by 2030

Kaul, Inge / Donald Blondin (2015)
Briefing Paper 4/2015

How to move from declaration of intent to concrete commitments at the upcoming Conference on Financing for Development? How to ensure that commitments match the most relevant issues for implementing the SDGs? The paper proposes three steps with a focus on national and international public finance.

The fragile road towards peace and democracy: insights on the effectiveness of international support to post-conflict Burundi

Mroß, Karina (2015)
Discussion Paper 3/2015

How can countries emerging from conflict be supported on their path towards peace and democracy? This paper analyses international support to post-conflict Burundi and sheds light upon key factors influencing its effectiveness.

European Development Days 2015

Brussels, 03. June 2015

2015 is European Development Year. Three important global summits came up, this year’s European Development Days (EDDs) covered relevant key topics for sustainable development under the slogan “Our world. Our dignity. Our Future”. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) co-organized various…

Migration to Europe – is North Africa Europe's boarder guard?

Schäfer, Isabel (2015)
The Current Column, 08. June 2015

The transit states in North Africa are facing pressure on several different fronts, whether socio-economic crises, political conflicts, transit migration from sub-Saharan Africa or the externalisation of EU migration control.

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Bonn, 11. June 2015

On 11 June 2015, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to a public screening and subsequent discussion of the film "1.5° Stay Alive" by Lucian Segura at the LVR-Landesmuseum, Bonn. The film - combining several genres like documentary, music video and nature film - shows the Caribbean…

Changing water politics in the Nile basin

Bonn, 17. June 2015

A fter four years of escalating tensions between downstream and upstream countries in the Nile basin, in particular in view of Ethiopia’s construction of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), some recent developments have provided reasons for optimism over the future of cooperation in the world’s longest river. Last February Egypt…

Poverty and Shared Prosperity

Bonn, 22. June 2015

Fighting poverty is one of the most important tasks of the international development agenda and will logically take a central role in the post-2015 agenda . In the past, major progress has been achieved in poverty reduction. However, many of those who emerged from poverty in recent years remain vulnerable to shocks and slowdowns in…

Financing global development: Can foreign direct investments be increased through international investment agreements?

Berger, Axel (2015)
Briefing Paper 9/2015

Developing countries signed international investment agreements to attract foreign investments. The empirical evidence suggests they are no panacea in this respect. A debate is needed about how these agreements can be reformed to promote foreign investments while preserving policy space.

Sustainability standards for palm oil: challenges for smallholder certification under the RSPO

Brandi, Clara (2015)
External Publications

Advancing an international Energiewende policy

Potsdam, 29. June 2015

Over the past two decades, Germany has emerged as a frontrunner in the development of renewable energy. Its ambitious policies to support the deployment of renewable energy not only initiated the German Energiewende , they also helped stimulate a global process of innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies. While these…

Financing the green transformation: how to make green finance work in Indonesia

Volz, Ulrich / Judith Böhnke / Laura Knierim / Katharina Richert / Greta-Maria Röber / Vanessa Eidt (2015)
Books

Connected, contested and complex – Why Europe needs a global strategy

Messner, Dirk / Ewald Wermuth / Giovanni Grevi / Teresa Ribera / Kevin Watkins (2015)
The Current Column, 03. July 2015

Hidden in the small print of last week’s European Council conclusions was an important commitment leading to a "EU global strategy on foreign and security policy"