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From combating desertification to comprehensive soil and drought management

Brüntrup, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 16. May 2022

Fresh momentum has recently been injected into the UNCCD. One key step was the UN’s decision to make UNCCD the custodian agency for SDG target 15.3.

Diverging notions of access and their consequences for ocean science

Online, 11. May 2022

"Access" does not only mean the ability to physically reach a resource. It also refers to the capacity of different stakeholders to derive benefits from it. As the international community is stepping up its efforts to increase the accessibility of ocean science, e.g. by making more data available, improving the usability of products,…

Sustainability and International Training for Civil Servants

Mexico City/Online, 10. May 2022

What does it need for local leaders to become agents of sustainability? What kind of competences do they need for transformative policy making? And how can training programmes strengthen such competences for local leadership? In this workshop, you will Learn what enables local leaders to become agents of sustainability Understand the…

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…

The effects of social protection and social cohesion on the acceptability of climate change mitigation policies: what do we (not) know in the context of low- and middle-Income countries?

Malerba, Daniele (2022)
External Publications

Powerful EU support to Ukraine would defeat Russian war aims

Furness, Mark / Julian Bergmann (2022)
The Current Column, 09. May 2022

The EU should make every effort to support the humanitarian response to the crisis, the people it has displaced, and the countries where they have sought refuge.

Decarbonising lifestyles, scaling up behavioural innovations

Online, 06. May 2022

Even with better incentives and faster green tech innovation, deep decarbonisation is almost impossible to achieve as long as carbon-intensive lifestyles prevail; and even more so, when rising purchasing power increases and consuming middle classes expand at the scale witnessed in the past two to three decades. Since efficiency…

Transboundary cooperation and global governance for inclusive sustainable development

Scholz, Imme / Lilian Busse / Thomas Fues (eds.) (2022)
Books

Assessing policy reform and capacity building needs to implement a future WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement

Geneva, 05. May 2022

More than 110 World Trade Organization (WTO) Members are currently negotiating an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement with the aim of finalising the negotiations by the end of 2022. Empirical research estimates that the IFD Agreement benefits participating Members, in particular developing and least-developed…

G7 measures to enhance global health equity and security

Kickbusch, Ilona / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Githinji Gitahi / Adam Kamradt - Scott (2022)
External Publications

Scaling up sustainable finance to enable sustainable economic recovery

Volz, Ulrich / Kathrin Berensmann / Stephany Griffith-Jones / Anthony Lacavaro / Irene Monasterolo (2022)
External Publications

Disentangling the relationship between social protection and social cohesion: introduction to the special issue

Burchi, Francesco / Markus Loewe / Daniele Malerba / Julia Leininger (2022)
External Publications

Three cornerstones for Germany’s Feminist Development Policy

Friesen, Ina / Alma Wisskirchen (2022)
The Current Column, 02. May 2022

To ensure that commitment for feminist development policy (FDP) leads to a truly transformative feminist approach in Germany's development policy, it should be built on three key pillars.

Why we should talk about megatrends in Africa

Erforth, Benedikt / Lena Gutheil (2022)
External Publications

Megatrends have become ubiquitous phenomena in public policy debates. A thorough understanding of what this concept entails is often missing. We address this gap by unpacking the notion “megatrend” and tracing the significance it has for understanding the transformation of African societies.

Europe’s global gateway: a new geostrategic framework for development policy?

Furness, Mark / Niels Keijzer (2022)
Briefing Paper 1/2022

The proposal to build a 'Global Gateway' to the world is potentially a major turning point in EU foreign relations. It will create a new paradigm for EU development policy defined by strategic interests, but is likely to weaken the EU’s commitment to core development policy principles.

Duisburg’s other Silk Road: revisiting international cooperation

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf / Imme Scholz (2022)
External Publications

3D-Digital Development Dialogue "The Climate Crisis is Now"

Online, 28. April 2022

The 3D seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher & one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide. Speakers: Veronika Bertram (KfW) Daniel Clarke (Center for Disaster…

Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World

Online, 27. April 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of planetary health – a framework that recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health – in a world marred by the climate change and biodiversity crises, as well as growing inequalities between and within countries. With the WHO’s calls for vaccine equity…

Social Cohesion in Africa: Where do we stand? Where are we heading to?

Online, 26. April 2022

This is the third event of the Social Cohesion Webinar Series, organized by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice Team at the World Bank and the Social Cohesion Team at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). The purpose of this seminar series is bringing together leading…

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…