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IDOS@COP28

Dubai, 30. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. IDOS will be active as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on…

Benefits and costs of the air pollution targets for the post-2015 development agenda

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2014)
External Publications

300 researchers publish communiqué with recommendations for action to G7

At the Think7 Summit, more than 300 researchers from G7 countries and beyond meet today and tomorrow to present solutions to major global challenges.

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Arab Economies Will Benefit

Online, 01. June 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

Green Economy

Researchers at the IDOS are investigating instruments of ecological structural policy and global regulatory frameworks that support corresponding transformation processes.

G20

Special "G20": The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will accompany the Chinese and German G20 presidency through research, policy advice and events on the G20 presented in this Special.

Three topics for a repositioning of the UN’s development arm

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
The Current Column, 08. September 2025

The comprehensive UN80 reform initiative may primarily be a response to financial constraints, but it also offers an opportunity to reposition the UN.

Why we need a European development bank

Wolff, Peter (2017)
The Current Column, 27. November 2017

The proposal of founding a new European development bank offers some benefits. However, this pragmatic approach does not go far enough.

International year of sustainable energy for all: who pays the bill?

Ruchser, Matthias / Rebekka Hilz (2012)
The Current Column, 13. February 2012

The global economy is to become greener and fairer with a green economy. Yet the approach is controversial, not least because many developing countries are afraid that an ecological transformation of the economy will mask protectionist restrictions of international trade.

Can guarantees effectively leverage financing for SMEs in low- and middle-income countries?

Bambe, Bao-We-Wal (2025)
Policy Brief 3/2025

Access to environmental information: a driver of accountable governance in Morocco and Tunisia?

Houdret, Annabelle / Irene Pasqua / Saâd Filali Meknassi (2018)
Briefing Paper 10/2018

In North Africa, environmental problems increasingly lead to political protest. Governments and development partners should support access to environmental information and thereby accountable governance to avoid further discontent and destabilization.

Designing the new UN climate finance goal

Bonn and Online, 04. June 2024

The New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance is set to be agreed at this year’s COP29, and it could have profound implications for the level and transformational potential of finance to tackle climate change. Still, negotiators are wide apart in their starting positions, with key points of contention including how to…

The Ongoing Reform of the World Bank

Walle, Yabibal M. / Clara Brandi (2023)
The Current Column, 02. October 2023

Shareholders must make a substantial commitment to increase the lending capacity of the World Bank far beyond the $50 billion over the next ten years that was committed during the Spring Meetings.

Addis Ababa: a one-time opportunity

Berensmann, Kathrin (2015)
The Current Column, 13. July 2015

The UN Conference on Financing for Development begins in Addis Ababa today. It is the first of three world summits on key issues of global sustainable development taking place in the space of just six months.

Tackling Egypt’s Transformational Challenges

Vidican, Georgeta / Yasser Sherif (2015)
The Current Column, 27. March 2015

From 13-15 March 2015 the Egyptian government organized a major international event, the “Egypt Economic Development Conference”, aimed at repositioning the country on the investors’ agenda to stabilize Egypt’s economy. The outcomes of this conference are encouraging but also point to how important it is for Egypt to show commitment for a transformational agenda.

Unfinished business: an appraisal of the latest UNDS reform resolution

Baumann, Max-Otto / Silke Weinlich (2018)
Briefing Paper 13/2018

Can the United Nations Development System become a forceful player for realizing the 2030 Agenda? In May 2018, states set the course for reforms. While these have shortcomings, they provide a good starting point for a more effective and efficient system. Vigorous follow-up is needed.

Technology assessment in a multilateral science, technology and innovation system

Ladikas, Miltos / Andreas Stamm (2023)
External Publications

Städtische Governance für nachhaltige globale Entwicklung: von den SDGs zur New Urban Agenda

Dick, Eva (2016)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 6/2016

„Der Kampf um die globale Nachhaltigkeit wird sich in Städten entscheiden“, so Ban Ki-moon, Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen im April 2012. Die Agenda 2030 berücksichtigt die Schlüsselfunktion von Städten für globale Entwicklungsprozesse jedoch nicht ausreichend.

SDG 2 (kein Hunger) in der Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: lassen wir die Hungernden zurück?

Holzapfel, Sarah / Michael Brüntrup (2017)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 11/2017

Diese A&S untersucht die deutsche Nachhaltigekeitsstrategie, die Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 aufzeigt, im Hinblick auf SDG2: Den Hunger beenden, Ernährungssicherheit und eine bessere Ernährung erreichen und eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft fördern.

Post 2015: die Verhandlung der Sustainable Development Goals für eine ambitionierte globale Entwicklungsagenda nutzen!

Bauer, Steffen / Ines Dombrowsky / Imme Scholz (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 12/2014

Der internationale Prozess zur Vereinbarung universeller Nachhaltigkeitsziele (SDGs) ist in die entscheidende Phase eingetreten. Dieses A&S reflekiert den von einer UN-Arbeitsgruppe (OWG) vorgelegten Entwurf und benennt Prioritäten für die bevorstehenden Verhandlungen in der UN-Generalversammlung.