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Green hydrogen: opportunities for industrial development through forward linkages from renewables. Global Supply Chains blog

Altenburg, Tilman / Manuel Albaladejo / Smeeta Fokeer / Nele Wenck (2022)
External Publications

Decarbonising lifestyles, scaling up behavioural innovations

Online, 06. May 2022

Even with better incentives and faster green tech innovation, deep decarbonisation is almost impossible to achieve as long as carbon-intensive lifestyles prevail; and even more so, when rising purchasing power increases and consuming middle classes expand at the scale witnessed in the past two to three decades. Since efficiency…

From combating desertification to comprehensive soil and drought management

Brüntrup, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 16. May 2022

Fresh momentum has recently been injected into the UNCCD. One key step was the UN’s decision to make UNCCD the custodian agency for SDG target 15.3.

Advancing Sustainable Urban Development in Remote Regions

Online and Bonn, 25. May 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shown that global challenges require global responses, which most often seem impossible to agree upon given our world’s heterogeneities and the significant discrepancies in the understanding of human values that once more, the tragic war in Ukraine revealed. Also in pandemic times and in times of…

Toward Urban Water Security: What works, when and why?

Online, 25. May 2022

Cities are organic, highly divided (socially, economically, politically) social spaces. These divisions manifest spatially, and ensuring the ‘right to the city’ is a difficult task. Evidence suggests that macro-approaches such as Integrated Water Resources Management or Integrated Urban Water Management are difficult to implement. Yet,…

How significant is The Limits to Growth today?

Stamm, Andreas / Jakob Rhyner / Hartmut Ihne (2022)
The Current Column, 30. May 2022

The history of The Limits to Growth has shown that research conducted in this way can actually initiate worldwide political debates and anchor them in the public consciousness.

Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all

Bangura, Ibrahim / Ananya Chakraborty / Ana Garcia-Hernandez / Lennart Kaplan / Jana Kuhnt et al. (2022)
External Publications

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Scholz, Wolfgang / Michael Fink (2022)
Discussion Paper 7/2022

Cities adopting a green transformation process can minimise their environmental impact and maximise green economic opportunities, including job creation, and improve quality of life for their residents. This paper assesses fields of action for African and Asian mid-sized cities.

Up-scaling co-benefits of sustainable consumption for development

Bonn, 13. June 2022

Environmentally sustainable consumption is now high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers in rich countries. In contrast, in developing countries the consuming middle classes are just emerging, mostly in cities, and concerns about the environmental footprint of consumption are only slowly entering the policy agenda. Given the…

Meeting the world’s demand for Wellbeing with less resources

Bauer, Steffen / Babette Never (2022)
The Current Column, 13. June 2022

The outcome of the Stockholm+50 summit now provides a universal reference point. Context-specific research on the enabling conditions for SCP and practical international cooperation can jointly support both the calibration and application of a global compass for wellbeing

‘Nothing is more permanent than the temporary’ – Understanding protracted displacement and people's own responses

Etzold, Benjamin / Elvan Isikozlu / Simone Christ et al. (2022)
External Publications

Urban rail implementation in emerging economies: an opportunity for industrial development and technological learning?

Asimeng, Emmanuel Theodore (2022)
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Civil society participation in urban governance in Africa: supporting CSOs’ political voice for a transformation of citizen–state relations

Gutheil, Lena (2022)
External Publications

Global Governance

Beisheim, Marianne / Steven Bernstein / Frank Biermann / Pamela Chasek / Melanie van Driel / Felicitas Fritzsche / Carole-Anne Sénit / Silke Weinlich (2022)
External Publications

Social Contracts in the MENA – Drivers of Change

Bonn, 24. August 2022

Aspirations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to improve state-society relations predate the Arab uprisings in 2010-11 (e.g. Algeria 1991-2002, Iran 1998). However, developments after 2011 fell well short of meeting these aspirations in most MENA countries. Considerable bodies of literature now use the social contract ‘lens’ for…

Have we failed to capitalise on the momentum for the SDGs?

Kranholdt, Dominic (2022)
The Current Column, 29. August 2022

The Sustainable Development Report 2022 shows that the international community has seen a reversal in progress on SDG achievement for the second successive year

Urbanization, the Climate Crisis, and the Role of the G7

Roll, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 12. September 2022

Considering the large number of international initiatives that already deal with urbanization and the climate crisis, what contribution to global sustainable urban development could the G7 make?

Transformative force of Digitalisation

Special "Transformative force of Digitalisation": The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) addresses the tension between our digital potential and current politics and procedures through innovative, policy-relevant research.

TREND Analytics

Special TREND Analytics: TREND analytics is an unique online tool offering its users a birds’ eye perspective of 300 environmental provisions in 630 preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945. At the same time political decision makers, researchers or civil society actors are enabled to zoom into the great diversity of this environmental provisions.

Early insights from the first year of the UN Decade for Ocean Science

Schoderer, Mirja / Ramona Hägele (2022)
The Current Column, 19. September 2022

As discussions within the UN Decade of Ocean Science and at the UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon have shown, ocean science struggles with accessibility