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Is the EU risking another “no deal”?

Keijzer, Niels/ Benedikt Erforth (2020)
The Current Column, 17. February 2020

Three weeks after the European Parliament bid goodbye to the UK, EU Council President Charles Michel is convening EU leaders for a special EU budget summit on 20 February.

Who is energy poor? Evidence from the least developed regions in China

Jiang, Lu / Lu Yu / Bing Xue / Xingpeng Chen / Zhifu Mi (2020)
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Social construction of pastureland: changing rules and resource-use rights in China and Kyrgyzstan

Yu, Lu / Ulan Kasymov (2020)
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Indicators for energy transition targets in China and Germany: a text analysis

Yu, Lu / Bing Xue / Stefan Stückrad / Heiko Thomas / Guotian Cai (2020)
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2020

2020 Jump to: Dezember 2020 November 2020 Oktober 2020 September 2020 August 2020 Juli 2020 Juni 2020 Mai 2020 April 2020 März 2020 Februar 2020 Januar 2020 Dezember 2020 Eine Frau für die Transformation Porträt: Anna-Katharina Hornidge ist seit Oktober 2020 Mitglied im Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), seit März 2020 Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik sowie Professorin für Globale Nachhaltige…

Science and sustainable development (Victoria Falls)

Victoria Falls, 24. February 2020

Pre-Event to the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development , hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Cooperation for sustainable development (as envisaged in SDG17) between external actors and Africa often discusses assistance schemes and aid or trade or investment priorities. The debate is often on separate…

The implications of the UN’s ruling on 'climate refugees'

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Benjamin Schraven / Diogo Serraglio (2020)
The Current Column, 24. February 2020

Although it is not legally binding, the UN Human Rights Committee ruling is the first to address someone’s attempt to be granted refugee status due to the impacts of climate change.

Walking the talk: leveraging the Green Deal to boost climate ambition through EU external action

Bauer, Steffen / Gabriela Iacobuta (2020)
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العقد الاجتماعي: أداة تحلیلیة للبلدان في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقیا وأبعد (Arabic version of: The social contract: an analytical tool for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond)

Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl // ماركوس لوفة / برنھارد تراوتنر/ تینا زينتلِ (2020)
Briefing Paper 6/2020

The social contract is a key term in social science literature focusing on state-society relations but has rarely been well. Our briefing paper suggests a concept where social contracts are sets of agreements between societal groups and the government on rights and obligations towards each other.

Global Transformation towards Sustainability

Bonn, 18. March 2020

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the University of Bonn are partners in the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research . In a joint Spring School we invite African Germany-Alumni from any field of study and Alumni of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy of the DIE to come to…

Harnessing development cooperation to foster European climate leadership

Brüssel, 18. March 2020

The recent UN climate change conference in Madrid (COP25) was widely perceived as underwhelming in its failure to agree on key matters to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement and to ensure more ambitious climate action. All the while, the European Commission released its ambitious Green Deal and the European Parliament…

Water plays a key role in the implementation of the Paris climate agreement

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
The Current Column, 20. March 2020

Without sustainable water management, both food production and electricity generation, let alone drinking water supplies, are at risk.

PRODIGEES – Digitalisation and Sustainability

, 31. March 2020

On March 30, 2020 members from the MGG network and beyond held the kick-off meeting for the new EU Horizon2020 project PRODIGEES “ Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe Towards Sustainable Development ”. Due to the Covid-19 situation, the meeting was not held in Berlin, as originally planned, but as a series…

Socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) in multi-level regulatory frameworks: assessment report on policy space for SRPP regulation and implementation in Germany and Kenya

Stoffel, Tim (2020)
Discussion Paper 9/2020

What leeway is there for Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) in Germany and Kenya? In both countries public procurement is influenced by a multi-level regulatory framework. Analysing it generates insights and policy considerations on how to overcome the implementation gap for SRPP.

Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement

Mark Roelfsema / Heleen L. van Soest / Mathijs Harmsen / Detlef P. van Vuuren / Christoph Bertram / Michel den Elzen / Niklas Höhne / Iacobuta, Gabriela [...] (2020)
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Parallels between the corona pandemic and climate change

Fuhrmann, Hanna / Sascha Kuhn (2020)
The Current Column, 01. April 2020

Measures are being taken all over the world to slow down the spread of the virus and minimise the economic damage. In this situation, behavioural change of individuals is indispensable.

The corona virus and its consequences for national, European and global sustainability and climate policy as well as international cooperation

Online, 03. April 2020

The coronavirus and the Covid-19 pandemic are currently determining our lives and thus also our work: not only in terms of organisation, but also in terms of content. While the current focus is of course on crisis management, some members and partners of SDSN Germany have already dealt with the consequences of the corona crisis for…

How the EU and rising powers can shape their future sustainably

Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners / Benjamin Stewart (2020)
The Current Column, 06. April 2020

Given the catalytic function of the Covid-19 pandemic for digitalisation, the current crisis is an urgent call for a profound analysis of the impact of digitalisation on sustainability

Sustainability through public procurement: the way forward

Stoffel, Tim (2020)
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Environmental governance meets reality: a micro-scale perspective on sustainability certification schemes for oil palm smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra

Martens, Katrin / Yvonne Kunz / Ir. Rosyani / Heiko Faust (2020)
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