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Accountability must be at the heart of the Paris climate pact

van Asselt, Harro / Håkon Sælen / Pieter Pauw (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Germany at the Poles: exploring legitimacy

Wingens, Jacqueline / Svenja Holste / Charlotte Gehrke (2025)
External Publications

Janetschek, Hannah

Researcher, Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability".

Global transformation towards planetary health

Strupat, Christoph / Liz Grant / Maike Voss / Katharina Molitor / Sophie Gepp / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Saravanan Subramanian / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
External Publications

Challenges in accelerating net-zero transitions: insights from transport electrification in Germany and California

Rogge, Karoline S. / Nicholas Goedeking (2024)
External Publications

NDC Explorer (V 2.0)

Pauw, Pieter / Davide Cassanmagnano / Kennedy Mbeva / Jonas Hein / Alejandro Guarín / et al (2017)
Research Data

Good Economics for Warmer Times

Online, 29. February 2024

Climate change is not just about getting the right technology. It is also about changing behavior and policies. And it is not (only) about the end of the world: it is also about the damage it does, today, mainly to poor people around the world. In this dialogue, Professor Duflo and Minister Lawson will discuss some of what we know about…

Sustainability after COVID-19

Online, 12. May 2020

Are there trade-offs or synergies between financing economic recovery and transitioning towards sustainability? Which areas, sectors or activities should be prioritized in a Green New Deal, given the economic crisis and competing claims? What could a Green Deal look like in a developing country context? On 12 May we discussed on these…

Climate Action and Human Wellbeing at a Crossroads

Bonn, 04. November 2017

Back to back with COP23, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosted the international conference “ Climate Action and Human Wellbeing at a Crossroads: Historical Transformation or Backlash? ” in Bonn on 4 and 5 November,…

From Lima to Paris, and beyond: options for ex ante assessment of intended nationally determined contributions under the UNFCCC

van Asselt, Harro / Håkon Sælen / Pieter Pauw (2014)
External Publications

With which H2 can a global hydrogen economy be constructed?

Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier / Ece Oyan (2023)
The Current Column, 16. October 2023

Germany should develop strategies at an early stage to pursue the goal of a green, not blue, hydrogen economy. Future hydrogen partnerships with third countries should prioritise electrolytically produced hydrogen throughout.

Outlook for the new legislature: Energy transition at sea

Ittner, Irit (2025)
The Current Column, 10. February 2025

Continuity is required in order to secure previous successes and to achieve sustainable development goals.

60 years of research, policy advice and training at IDOS

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2024)
The Current Column, 11. March 2024

We look back at six decades of intensive research, policy advice, training and joint learning, with the constant aim of finding innovative and implementation-oriented solutions to current development challenges.

Water Security and Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer / Carmen Richerzhagen (2018)
The Current Column, 22. March 2018

The motto of this year’s World Water Day states “the answer is in nature”, referring to nature-based solutions to the “water challenges we face in the 21st century”. One of these challenges is climate change, the impacts of which threaten water se-curity worldwide.

Biodiversity is good for you!

Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2019)
The Current Column, 20. May 2019

Species protection must become a cross-sectoral task of sustainable development

Cities for sustainable global development

Dick, Eva (2018)
The Current Column, 29. October 2018

The theme of this year’s World Cities Day on 31 October is “Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities”. The growing importance of cities is also reflected in the self-perception of the “urban community”.

Mind the (energy efficiency) gap!

Figueroa, Aurelia (2014)
The Current Column, 15. December 2014

Behavioural barriers to energy efficiency uptake have been demonstrated to impede uptake in OECD Member countries. New research points to the relevance of this topic in a global setting.

The ambiguous partner: Mexico and the European Green Deal

Ruano, Lorena (2021)
External Publications

Questioning growthism: Why and how we should question growth

Malerba, Daniele (2025)
External Publications

Debates on the feasibility and necessity of continuous economic growth have increased, not least due to the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and the current polycrises. Thinking about degrowth models to reduce material consumption and production in the richer countries must strongly involve lower-income countries to avoid a neo-colonial research agenda. It is also closely linked to the need for greater equity in global systems

Conflicts, crises, climate change: Germany’s global responsibility for a sustainable migration policy

Bauer, Steffen / Benjamin Schraven (2014)
External Publications