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Editorial: Constructing ocean and polar governance

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Hubert Zimmermann (2022)
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Constructing ocean and polar governance

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Hubert Zimmermann (eds.) (2022)
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Research Colloquium on Triangular Cooperation

Online, 15. July 2025

Triangular cooperation brings together partners across the North-South divide to address development-related concerns and strengthen partnerships. Triangular schemes often consist of multilateral bodies and traditional donors supporting (bilateral) South-South cooperation endeavours and have been said to centre on three sets of roles:…

The Agenda 2030 – Dealing with Grand Challenges for Mankind

Bonn, 20. October 2016

In September 2015, countries agreed on a new sustainable development agenda in order to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by the year 2030. In the lecture series, experts from a variety of academic disciplines will analyze the most important grand challenges involved in this ambitious agenda. They will explore…

Presentation of WBGU Flagship Report 2013

Presentation of WBGU Flagship Report 2013 Presentation of WBGU Flagship Report 2013 “World in Transition – Governing the Marine Heritage“ Press Release of 5 June 2013 The oceans are part of the common heritage of mankind and should, in the long term, be granted this status under international law. This would give them better protection and ensure that they are managed in a sustainable way, concludes the German Advisory Council on Global Change ( Wissenschaftlicher…

Regine Mehl

Regine Mehl is Political Scientist and Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

2015 ICCG Climate Think Tank Ranking: DIE sharpens its profile among the worldwide leading think tanks in climate policy

2015 ICCG Climate Think Tank Ranking: DIE sharpens its profile among the worldwide leading think tanks in climate policy 2015 ICCG Climate Think Tank Ranking: DIE sharpens its profile among the worldwide leading think tanks in climate policy Press release, 28 June 2016 The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) belongs to the leading research institutions in climate policy and climate economy worldwide: This is the assessment…

The UN and a new set of goals: Fit-for-Purpose?

Bonn, 12. December 2014

While the United Nations (UN) are central to the process of determining the new set of goals that will follow the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, there has been little introspection on its own organisational capacity to help countries to meet them. Which role should it play in the implementation of the new agenda? How does the…

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research Download Kaete-Hamburger-Kolleg_Inauguration-Ceremony_30.10.2012_Programme_ENG.pdf Further Information events@gcr21.uni-due.de

Green Industrial Policy

We need to pursue economic development and wealth creation while keeping resource consumption and pollution in accordance with Earth’s bio-capacity. This is what Green Industrial Policy is about.

The Role of Knowledge in Creating a “Science of Delivery”

Bonn, 28. February 2013

Aniruddha Dasgupta is the Director of “Knowledge & Learning” at the World Bank. He is one of the leaders behind the current change process in the World Bank Group under the new President Jim Y. Kim. The World Bank Group is currently undertaking to become a Solutions Bank. Aniruddha Dasgupta will talk about the need to think of knowledge…

Re-considering international health data sharing rules for a new Pandemic Treaty.

Online, 14. May 2024

During the upcoming 77th World Health Assembly on the 24th of May, WHO Member States discussed the final draft for a new international agreement on Pandemic governance. On this occasion, IDOS and the trinational research project FRAMENET at TU Dresden organized an online policy event to discuss the possibilities and challenges for a…

Comparing Aid Agencies’ Bureaucratic Politics and Practices

Paris, 30. November 2023

The workshop offered the unique opportunity for a select group of scholars researching bureaucratic politics and practices of aid agencies to develop comparative perspectives on development effectiveness. We discussed empirically grounded and comparative work that takes either bureaucrats or aid agencies as their main unit of analysis and…

Adaptive project management for the civil society sector: towards an academic research agenda

Gutheil, Lena (2021)
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Fostering inter-group cohesion

Online, 02. April 2024

We invited you to join us for an exciting, evidence-based discussion on inter-group cohesion, highlighting findings from evaluations of different strategies to promote trust or change perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors towards others in diverse societies. Salma Mousa offered a review of the evidence on the effectiveness of three…

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…

Auktor, Georgeta

Georgeta Auktor ist Ökonomin und war Assoziierte Wissenschaftlerin am IDOS.

Beware the backlash: Feminist development policy at the crossroads

Götze, Jacqueline / Maryam Khalid / Tina Zintl (2025)
The Current Column, 06. March 2025

Gender issues need to be integrated into different policy fields and shielded from populist discussions

New Chairs at WBGU

New Chairs at WBGU New Chairs at WBGU – Climate protection and development policy will be further linked The members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change ( Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen WBGU ) elected Hans Joachim Schellnhuber as the new Chair and Dirk Messner as new Vice Chair on 27 February 2009. Schellnhuber is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and has been a member of WBGU…

It’s about water!

Online, 07. October 2021

Climate change impacts cities in manifold ways and often affects water resources: floods and other natural hazards damage urban infrastructure, drinking water quality can deteriorate, and pressure on surrounding water-based ecosystems can increase. The Bonn Water Network (BWN) invites you to its session at the Daring Cities Conference…