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Knowledge for Development

Bonn, 08. July 2014

For nearly two decades now we have seen increasing consideration of knowledge and learning being at the core of development. However, the chances offered by this new development are not being optimally exploited. Knowledge managers, information managers, facilitators, knowledge brokers, etc. are still more occupied with justifying their…

Yet another inconvenient truth

Wiemann, Jürgen (2010)
The Current Column, 19. July 2010

Back to the future: the new global partnership for effective development cooperation should be part of the UN

Mahn, Timo Casjen / Silke Weinlich (2012)
The Current Column, 21. May 2012

A global framework for climate action: orchestrating non-state and subnational initiatives for more effective global climate governance

Chan, Sander / Pieter Pauw (2014)
Discussion Paper 34/2014

The transformation towards a climate resilient and low carbon future requires the collaboration of state- and non-state stakeholders. A well designed GFCA could steer a groundswell of non-state and subnational climate actions towards greater ambition, and recognise genuinely transformative actions.

Environmental Governance

The research programme "Environmental Governance" examines the extent of strategies for requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda.

What Putin’s war means for international cooperation

Grävingholt, Jörn (2022)
The Current Column, 23. March 2022

24 February 2022, or “2/24”, could go down in history as a new turning point. There is a real risk of the world being divided up into a new geopolitical order.

Policy for a rules-based multipolar world

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2025)
The Current Column, 24. February 2025

Over the next four years, the new German government, as a driving force in Europe, must throw its full weight behind securing the rules-based order.

Forests - a matter of money?!

Schmidt, Lars / Pierre Ibisch (2009)
The Current Column, 16. March 2009

The Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences and Responses

Bonn, 29. August 2011

Background: The workshop addressed the emerging phenomenon of institutional fragmentation in global governance today. The term fragmentation refers to the growing diversity and lack of coordination among private or public norms, treaties and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. An elaborate concept of…

Instruction by the Minister of Finance

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
The Current Column, 04. May 2023

The posting simplifies and distorts Germany's laudable ODA performance, but links it to a political announcement: there will be no more money!

Taking a chance on a more democratic climate policy: the poorest countries are the moral winners of a disappointing Copenhagen climate summit

Zelli, Fariborz (2009)
The Current Column, 21. December 2009

G-7: a turning point in climate policy or empty words?

Lütkenhorst, Wilfried / Anna Pegels (2015)
The Current Column, 15. June 2015

Climate policy was one of the agenda items at the G7 summit. What should we make of the decisions? How serious is the G7’s commitment to the long-term decarbonisation of the global economy?

A time of reflection on development and development policies

Wiemann, Jürgen (2011)
The Current Column, 19. September 2011

Biodiesel in India: value chain organisation and policy options for rural development

Altenburg, Tilman / Hildegard Dietz / Matthias Hahl / Nikos Nikolidakis / Christ (2009)
Studies 43

The first European Humanitarian Forum: talk shop or game changer?

Friesen, Ina / Pauline Veron (2022)
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Beyond adaptation? The changing nature of seasonal migration in Northern Ghana in the context of climate change, agricultural decline and food insecurity

Schraven, Benjamin / Christina Rademacher-Schulz (2015)
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Risk retention

Horstmann, Britta / Nicola Tollin (2018)
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The behavioral dimensions of international cooperation

Messner, Dirk / Alejandro Guarín / Daniel Haun (2016)
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Climate change: the European Union towards COP21 and beyond

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi / Simon Maxwell / Tancrède Voituriez / Alisa Herrero (2015)
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Conservation, REDD+ and the struggle for land in Jambi, Indonesia

Hein, Jonas / Heiko Faust (2014)
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