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"Encircling the Seamless: India, Climate Change, and the Global Commons"

Bonn, 18. February 2011

Professor A. Damodaran of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore presented his book “Encircling the Seamless: India, Climate Change, and the Global Commons”. His book explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change conventions and multilateral environmental…

Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges

Marx, Axel / Charline Depoorter / Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba / […] / Clara Brandi /[…] et al. (2024)
External Publications

Tropical Forests and Green Growth

Lima, Peru, 02. December 2014

This event brought together national decision-makers and global leaders in environmental policy to discuss the role of tropical forests within a Green Economy. How can countries solve tensions between national needs for growth and international commitments to reduce deforestation? How can differing domestic interests with regard to forest…

Fairtrade and economic pro-poor growth: a literature review

Bissinger, Katharina (2019)
External Publications

GDI ranked one of the top Think Tanks

GDI ranked one of the top Think Tanks German Development Institute once again ranked one of the top Think Tanks Press Release of 1 February 2010 Once again, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is part of the Global “Go-To Think Tanks” ranking. The German Development Institute is one of the leading Think Tanks in the world and ranks among the top 10 “International Development Think Tanks”. Of 6305 institutions identified…

Germany’s next federal government and the United Nations

Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug / Silke Weinlich (2021)
The Current Column, 15. September 2021

Germany’s next federal government should ensure that intended contributions for UN organisations and processes are stably anchored in the federal budget.

(Critical) Geopolitics, sustainability, and “global” spaces

Bonn, 12. November 2024

The aim of this workshop is to explore ongoing geopoliticization as a (renewed) trend shaping global development across policy fields. The trend we call geopoliticization refers to the process by which considerations of space and the use of space are prioritised in policy-making in and across policy fields such as development cooperation…

New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns?

New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns? Jump to: New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns Chaturvedi, Sachin / Thomas Fues / Elizabeth Sidiropoulus (eds.) (2012): Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? London/New York: ZED Books ISBN: 9781780320632 The new book "…

From Monterrey to Seville: an overview

Klingebiel, Stephan / Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (2025)
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Come on, into the “Green Twenties”!

Bauer, Steffen (2021)
The Current Column, 19. April 2021

“Restore Our Earth!” is the theme and rallying cry for this year’s Earth Day on 22 April. This is not something that can be achieved on a single day.

International development cooperation is in Germany’s national interest

Furness, Mark (2025)
The Current Column, 27. January 2025

Germany’s international cooperation is as important for its own continued development, as it is for the countries where Germany invests public money.

Partnership in the field of global knowledge cooperation is not a one-way street

Grimm, Sven / Regine Mehl (2020)
The Current Column, 03. February 2020

Partnership skills are required in the global South (not least in the education and research sectors) and the global North alike.

Post 2015: what it means for the United Nations development system

Wennubst, Pio / Timo Casjen Mahn (2013)
Briefing Paper 13/2013

The European External Action Service: a new institutional framework for EU development cooperation

Furness, Mark (2010)
Discussion Paper 15/2010

Cooperation is the mother of all things: what is stopping us from solving globalisation problems?

Guarín, Alejandro / Dirk Messner / Silke Weinlich (2012)
The Current Column, 04. June 2012

Launch Event: Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2022

Online, 06. April 2022

Global supply chains affect the economy, the environment and social welfare in many ways: Worldwide, economies are experiencing global supply shortages; the greening of the global economy requires a restructuring of global production to massively decrease its environmental footprint; and consumers are increasingly demanding higher social…

EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity

Furness, Mark / Luciana-Alexandra Ghica / Simon Lightfoot / Balázs Szent-Iványi (2020)
External Publications

Setting goals for G20 development governance

Fues, Thomas (2016)
External Publications

Every day is Copenhagen

Every day is Copenhagen Every day is Copenhagen Press Release of 4 December 2009 A breakthrough in international climate policy is still possible, argue Claus Leggewie, Director of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) and Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) at euozine.com . Hopes for an internationally binding climate agreement were rudely dampened at the most recent meeting of…

Fourth Partner Conference 2012

Bonn, 18. April 2012

The Fourth Partner Conference for the research and sending partner institutions of the programme Managing Global Governance (MGG) took place from 18 to 20 April 2012, organized by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in close…