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Scaling up and replicating effective climate finance interventions

Takayoshi, Kato / Ellis Jane / Pieter Pauw / Randy Caruso (2014)
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Don’t let technical questions keep climate finance from flowing

Pauw, Pieter / Adis Dzebo (2014)
The Current Column, 26. May 2014

The debate on climate finance focuses increasingly on technical questions which seems to delay action on mobilizing private-sector finance.

Launch of SDSN Germany

Launch of SDSN Germany Jump to: Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Press Release, 9 May 2014 Ten German knowledge institutions have just appointed an initial group of high-ranking Leadership Council members for the newly established Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany ( SDSN Germany ). It…

Payment for environmental services and power in the Chamachán Watershed, Ecuador

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2014)
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Reshaping global Development: will Europe lead? An argument and a call for action

Berman, Thijs / Bengt Braun / Margret Jay / Filip Kacmarek / Louka Katseli / Simon Maxwell / Dirk Messner / Ana Palacio / Laurence Tubiana / Kevin Watkins (2014)
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The river basin as a new scale for water governance in transition countries? A comparative study of Mongolia and Ukraine

Dombrowsky, Ines / Nina Hagemann / Annabelle Houdret (2014)
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Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Bonn, 19. May 2014

The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…

It’s time to look beyond the UN’s $100bn climate finance target

Dzebo, Adis / Pieter Pauw (2014)
External Publications

Post 2015: die Messung des Umweltzustands – kommen wir zur Sache

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 6/2014

Umweltindikatoren liefern wesentliche Informationen über den Umweltzustand. Allerdings lassen die Datenverfügbarkeit und –qualität häufig zu wünschen übrig. Sollen Umweltziele ein Bestandteil der Post-2015-Entwicklungsagenda werden, müssen Datenerhebung und –verarbeitung deutlich verbessert werden.

Post 2015: getting down to the nitty-gritty: measuring the state of the environment

Stepping, Katharina M.K. (2014)
Briefing Paper 5/2014

Environmental indicators provide crucial information about the state of the environment. Yet, the availability and quality of data remain poor in a large number of countries. Integrating environmental goals and targets in the post-2015 agenda requires efforts for data gathering and processing.

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation: What next for a global architecture?

Talaat, Abdel-Malek (2014)
The Current Column, 08. May 2014

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) was endorsed in December 2011 by 3500 delegates as a reaffirmation of their will to accelerate progress in improving development cooperation outcomes.

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Press Release, 6 May 2014 The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation calls for a stronger global role of the European Union (EU), especially in its relations with the developing world. The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation worries, that Europe is so preoccupied with its own economic and social…

Energy and water for MENA: From risks to opportunities

Vidican, Georgeta / Annabelle Houdret (2014)
The Current Column, 05. May 2014

Innovative solutions are needed to transform risks of the energy and water crises into opportunities in MENA. A nexus approach could contribute to reducing regional vulnerabilities.

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.

Definition of green finance

Lindenberg, Nannette (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Als ik in zo’n windmolen mag klimmen, prima

Pauw, Pieter (2014)
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Klimaschutz in der Land(wirt)schaft: Chancen und Risiken für Kleinbauern in Entwicklungsländern

Lottje, Christine / Marcus Kaplan / Anika Schroeder / Karl Schüle (2014)
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Transformation of a policy area: development policy is in a systemic crisis and faces the challenge of a more complex system environment

Ashoff, Guido / Stephan Klingebiel (2014)
Discussion Paper 9/2014

Since the early 2000s, the development policy community has come to acknowledge two issues. (1) The aid system is in crisis; attempts are being made to reform the system. (2) The system environment in which development policy is being pursued has undergone considerable change.

Evolution of dam policies: evidence from the big hydropower states

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth (eds.) (2014)
Books

Have international sustainability norms reached the emerging economies? Evidence from dams in Brazil, China, India and Turkey

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth / Nirmalya Choudhury (2014)
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