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Sustainable legacy: Elinor Ostrom shaped sustainability research

Bauer, Steffen / Ines Dombrowsky (2012)
The Current Column, 18. June 2012

New Käte Hamburger Collegium for Political Cultures of World Society

New Käte Hamburger Collegium for Political Cultures of World Society New Käte Hamburger Collegium for Political Cultures of World Society Press Release of 15 February 2011 An International Centre of Excellence for research on international cooperation A great success for the North Rhine-Westphalian research community is the impending acquisition of the International Centre for Advanced Studies on Political Cultures of World Society. An international panel of experts…

Green Economy

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

How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit

Online, 10. May 2022

This ‘High-Level Regional Roundtable on Investment Facilitation for Development: How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit’ is co-organised by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Commission of the Organisation of…

Promoting civil society engagement in Afghanistan

Schetter, Conrad / Bernhard Trautner (2021)
The Current Column, 13. September 2021

In addition to addressing the extent and cause of the debacle in Afghanistan, the new German Government must urgently consider how to set a new course to prevent further destabilisation of the country.

UN Climate Change Conference is imminent after Germany’s federal elections

Bauer, Steffen (2021)
The Current Column, 06. September 2021

Among other things, COP26 is intended to reconcile short- and long-term goals and measures and to find answers to the remaining questions surrounding the negotiation of market mechanisms in climate policy.

The post-2015 development agenda: breaking new ground for a global framework

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel (2012)
The Current Column, 10. September 2012

Sustainability goals – also for Germany!

Rippin, Nicole (2013)
The Current Column, 27. September 2013

Who wants to follow? British leadership claims hamper international cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan (2013)
The Current Column, 18. March 2013

How Brexit hits EU External Action: the UK’s European legacy

Henökl, Thomas (2017)
The Current Column, 16. March 2017

As announced by Prime Minister Theresa May, the British Government is seeking a “clean break” with the EU and is prepared to leave the single market and the customs union in the process.

The 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy Review: more realism, less ambition

Furness, Mark / Isabel Schäfer (2015)
The Current Column, 26. November 2015

In its latest review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the EU has retreated from proposing models for its neighbours, instead concentrating on cooperation in areas where there are concrete interests on both sides.

Strategies to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth: Contributions of the Education Sector

Berlin, 10. December 2009

As countries develop, so their economic activities become increasingly concentrated. But economic concentration always excludes certain population groups. Poverty rates in lagging states in Brazil, China and India are more than twice those in dynamic states. Reducing these differences will be a crucial task in the years to come; yet…

Don’t lump together apples and oranges – Adaptation finance is different from mitigation finance

Lindenberg, Nannette / Pieter Pauw (2013)
The Current Column, 04. November 2013

Next Monday, the 19th annual Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opens its doors in Warsaw.

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

The Czech EU Presidency and the World: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?

Horky, Ondrej (2009)

Footprints: taking the right steps towards global sustainability

Figueroa, Aurelia (2012)

Leave No One Behind! Mobilisation attempt for the taboo subject of inequality

Rippin, Nicole (2013)

More than just flight and displacement: environmental change and migration

Schraven, Benjamin / Tamer Afifi (2011)
The Current Column, 20. June 2011

Is China becoming a “cyberdemocracy”? – The Internet as a development policy instrument

Clausmeyer, Tina (2011)
The Current Column, 08. August 2011

Presentation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in Berlin

Presentation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in Berlin Presentation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in Berlin Press Release of 19 March 2013 Today, renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs launches the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in Berlin. Within the scope of the event “New pathways towards global sustainability”, which is carried out by SDSN, the German…