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Privatization of Turkey’s rivers? The rise of water struggles and AKP government’s responses

Bonn, 12. March 2014

Rivers offer a huge potential for the generation of ‘clean’ electricity through hydropower development. But are the environmental impacts of dams really that small and does public interest in the name of renewable energy sources justify expropriation of local populations? In Turkey, these questions lead to heated debates– in midst of…

Green and social: managing synergies and trade-offs

Bonn, 12. March 2014

Existing development pathways need to be transformed so that they are more environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. These two agendas can be synergistic or conflicting. Synergies have been explored to some extent in recent concepts such as the ‘green economy’, while the associated trade-offs and conflicts have received less…

Empirical evidence and policy responses regarding climate change and migration

Bonn, 13. March 2014

Rationale for the workshop To the present day, a predominantly negative understanding of migration in the context of climatic and environmental change has prevailed. Migration has often been portrayed as a threat for human national and international security in policy fora or in media’s representation of the topic. Despite this fact,…

Green and social in the Post-2015 agenda

Bonn, 14. March 2014

In September 2013, the United Nations decided to only have “one single framework and set of goals” for international development after 2015. A single framework means that the ambitions for human development and the environment of the Millennium and the Sustainable Development Goals need to be integrated in order to achieve a coherent…

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. March 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Technological pathways to low carbon: Competition and collaboration between Europe and emerging Asia

Bonn, 07. April 2014

This was the final conference of an international research project " Technological trajectories for low carbon development in China, Europe and India ", generously funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond under a joint call with Volkswagen Foundation and Compagnia de San Paolo. The project was jointly carried out by a team of 15…

The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance

Duisburg, 15. April 2014

In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…

The post-2015 agenda: The role of Social Protection

Bonn, 15. April 2014

Social protection has significantly gained prominence in the international development debate. It is a key tool for the eradication of poverty, for the reduction of vulnerability and for the limitation of rising income inequality. Apart from this, however, social protection also has an economic and a political function: Its pure existence…

South-South Cooperation and the Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development

Mexico City, 16. April 2014

First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation The event covered mainly two aspects of the topic in the following two sections. 1. The first section focused on “Mutual Accountability and South-South Cooperation in the Post-2015 Agenda”. In the post-2015 debate, global accountability features…

Post 2015: Peace, security and development belong together

Janus, Heiner / Gerrit Kurtz (2014)
The Current Column, 22. April 2014

There are still significant political obstacles to specific goals regarding peace and security in the post-2015 agenda. Germany should build bridges to the sceptical countries.

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Press Release, 6 May 2014 The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation calls for a stronger global role of the European Union (EU), especially in its relations with the developing world. The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation worries, that Europe is so preoccupied with its own economic and social…

Die Vereinten Nationen zwischen Fragmentierung und Kohärenz

Bonn, 09. May 2014

Unter den Leitbegriffen Fragmentierung und Kohärenz fand vom 9. - 11. Mai 2014 das 4. UN-Forschungskolloquium der AG Junge UNO Forschung am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) statt. Diesem Thema liegt die Beobachtung zu Grunde, dass sich die Global Governance-Architektur hinsichtlich der Normen, der beteiligten Institutionen…

Gründung: Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft – Neue Impulse für NRW-Forschungsstrategie

Gründung: Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft – Neue Impulse für NRW-Forschungsstrategie Gründung: Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft – Neue Impulse für NRW-Forschungsstrategie Pressemitteilung vom 02.04.2014 Heute wurde in Düsseldorf die Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft gegründet. Das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) zählt zu den Gründungsmitgliedern. Die Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft ist die neue Dachorganisation für 13 rechtlich…

Post-2015: The future of the United Nations in Development?

Mahn, Timo / Kristinn Sv. Helgason (2014)
The Current Column, 12. May 2014

The changing development landscape characterized by a number of ongoing tectonic shifts will necessitate a strategic repositioning of the UN in Development.

Results-based Funding

Paris, 19. May 2014

Today development partners are under strong pressure to demonstrate the results achieved through development co-operation. Results-based funding is one major attempt to respond to this pressure by reshaping the delivery instruments and relationships between development partners. Results-based funding (such as results based aid, program…

Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Bonn, 19. May 2014

The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…

Launch of SDSN Germany

Launch of SDSN Germany Jump to: Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Press Release, 9 May 2014 Ten German knowledge institutions have just appointed an initial group of high-ranking Leadership Council members for the newly established Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany ( SDSN Germany ). It…

Don’t let technical questions keep climate finance from flowing

Pauw, Pieter / Adis Dzebo (2014)
The Current Column, 26. May 2014

The debate on climate finance focuses increasingly on technical questions which seems to delay action on mobilizing private-sector finance.

EU-China bilateral investment agreement negotiations

Berger, Axel (2014)
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