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Cooperation between G20 and African states: delivering on African citizens’ demands

Gyimah-Boadi, Emmanuel / Michael Bratton / Julia Leininger (2017)
External Publications

Der Brexit: Auswirkungen, Risiken und Chancen für die Europäische Entwicklungspolitik

Henökl, Thomas (2017)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 4/2017

Am 29. April treffen sich die EU-Regierungschefs, um die Leitlinien für die Brexit-Verhandlungen zu beschließen. Wie der Brexit die EU-Entwicklungszusammenarbeit trifft.

Brexit: impact, risks and opportunities for European development policy

Henökl, Thomas (2017)
Briefing Paper 8/2017

On 29 April EU leaders meet to discuss the Brexit negotiation guidelines. What are the likely implications of the UK withdrawal on European development policy?

Drivers and Constraints for Adopting Sustainability Standards in SMEs and the Demand for Finance

Berlin, 25. April 2017

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss country cases from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa on the relevance of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors of the case studies are partners of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network. Representatives…

National Climate Policy and Sustainable Development in Urban Kenya

Nairobi, 25. April 2017

The goals and objectives of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) create profound challenges for the development and implementation of coherent policies in all countries and at all levels of governance. Kenya has…

Payments for Ecosystem Services

Bonn, 26. April 2017

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are cash or in-kind payments directed to peasants that conserve forests important to secure water quality and quantity. Since poverty overlaps greatly with ecosystem service hotspots in the global south, PES has been often presented as a poverty alleviation mechanism. However, are peasants really…

The Marshall Plan with Africa – Looking ahead to the principles of development effectiveness

Rudolph, Alexandra / Sarah Holzapfel (2017)
The Current Column, 02. May 2017

Development Minister Müller’s Marshall Plan with Africa includes key points for a new German development strategy with Africa. The Marshall Plan should include development effectiveness criteria for public and private players from the beginning, and thereby take the development effectiveness agenda further.

Online Platform Presents Policy Proposals to G20

How can the G20 ensure sustained progress on climate protection? How can governments leverage the opportunities of digitalization and mitigate the risks? How can migration and asylum policy challenges be overcome? Leading think tanks from the G20 countries have been grappling with these and other key poli-cy issues facing the 20 largest industrialized and emerging economies (G20) and are now presenting their recommendations to the G20 via the G20-Insights.org internet platform.

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Agriculture & Climate Change

Bonn, 11. May 2017

COP 17 in Durban requested SBSTA to discuss “issues related to agriculture” as agenda item to inform the negotiations. So far, the debates have not come to a conclusion. In addition to this pre-Paris-assignment the Paris agreement in 2015 was built on the basis of (Intended) Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of which over 90…

Interconnections

Bonn, 12. May 2017

- Formerly known as One Agenda Conference - Interconnections between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement: Exploring the role of state, non-state and subnational actors The adoption of the 2030 Agenda (including 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Financing for Development Process) and the Paris…

Setting a climate equity and justice research agenda

Bonn, 15. May 2017

Issues of equity and justice are central to the analysis and design of climate policies and the practice of climate politics at all levels. A broadening range of scholars and practitioners have engaged with these issues, but a strong epistemic community has yet to emerge. You are hereby cordially invited to participate in a one-day…

Long-term Strategies for climate resilient development

Bonn, 15. May 2017

There is a need for long-term planning to 2050 and beyond for both mitigation and adaptation. The Paris Agreement formulated a number of long-term goals, including holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels;…

Determinants of ecological footprints: what is the role of globalization?

Rudolph, Alexandra / Lukas Figge (2017)
External Publications

Wastewater reuse in nexus perspective

Dresden, 17. May 2017

Moderation Birguy Lamizana , UNEP Co-chairs Ines Dombrowsky , German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Tamara Avellan , UNU-FLORES The seminar explored the opportunities of using wastewater within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food and energy crops. In this approach the…

The Interplay between Fairness and Ambition

Bonn, 17. May 2017

In negotiations for international agreements, finding the delicate balance between ambition that matters and the fair and equitable treatment of the diverse parties is the vital factor of success. The Paris Agreement has addressed this interplay in a particularly intricate way. In global climate policy, ambition to cope with and avoid…

NDC Explorer - analyse and compare countries' NDCs

Bonn, 17. May 2017

The NDC Explorer is the to-go-page to analyse and compare both qualitative and quantitative NDC content. Moreover, the NDC Explorer stimulates the debate on content, scope as well as formulation and implementation processes of the national climate action plans. The NDC Explorer was jointly established by the German Development Institute /…

Catalysing SDG Implementation through a Soil and Land Review

Berlin, 22. May 2017

Global Soil Week (GSW) 2017 was a conference that brought together actors from politics, economics, science and civil society to discuss about sustainable land use. This year's theme 'Catalysing SDG Implementation through a Soil and Land Review' aimed at contributing to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2017. The GSW'17 Lab, an open…

The EU-South Africa strategic partnership: waning affection, persisting economic interests

Grimm, Sven / Christine Hackenesch (2017)
External Publications

GPEDC: Where do we stand?

Berlin, 28. May 2017

The second High-level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) in Nairobi in December 2016 produced the Nairobi Outcome Document that reaffirmed commitments to the four partnership principles - ownership, focus on results, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability. It also set the GPEDC…