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COP23

Bonn, 04. November 2017

The international Climate Change Conference 2017, under the presidency of Fiji, was held in Bonn from 6 to 17 November 2017. This year’s delegations at the Climate Change Conference (23rd Conference of the Parties) needed to prove their commitment to the climate-related obligations passed in Paris 2015 and Marrakesh 2016. This time, it…

EU climate leadership: five building blocks for ambitious action

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Pieter Pauw / Sander Chan / Okka Lou Mathis (2015)
Briefing Paper 21/2015

While the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris is a crucial moment to sign a new global deal on climate, the real homework will only begin afterwards. The EU should lead by example. Five building blocks are of particular importance.

Global Climate Action: Bridging Theory and Practice

Bonn, 13. June 2019

This event launched the recently published “Political theory and global climate action: recasting the public sphere” by Idil Boran and discussed the role of nonstate and subnational actors in climate action at the interface of research and practice. It was the first in a series of events hosted by the German Development Institute /…

Climate action in the Global South

Nairobi, 16. October 2018

It is now conventional wisdom that many of the fundamental challenges the world faces in the 21st century are inherently “global challenges.” It is similarly commonly agreed that our ability to manage global challenges is woefully inadequate. There is thus an urgent need to explore new strategies to promote effective cooperation.…

The inter-relationship between climate change, inequality, poverty and food security in Africa: a bibliometric review and content analysis approach

Tamasiga, Phemelo / Helen Onyeaka / Andenike Akinsemolu / Malebogo Bakwena (2023)
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Effective and geographically balanced? An output-based assessment of non-state climate actions

Chan, Sander / Robert Falkner / Matthew Goldberg / Harro van Asselt (2016)
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What possible synergies?

Bonn, 12. September 2017

The high-level dialogue addresses interconnections between sustainable development and climate action, particularly between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Climate Action ‘Agenda. The dialogue consists of high-level input, a panel of practitioners, and break-out sessions for the general audience, specifically…

Delivering commitments and enhancing ambition

Lima, 08. December 2014

In this side-event organised by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, VU University Amsterdam, and Ecofys, experts, policymakers and representatives of non-state and subnational climate initiatives have discussed: the potential of…

Feeling the heat: climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
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A pioneers' alliance for climate action

Berlin, 25. May 2016

Effective implementation of the prospective new climate agreement will depend on ambitious climate action around the globe. Some countries are willing and able to go further faster to raise the level of ambition in international climate policy. This workshop brought together experts from all world regions and explored the potentials of a…

Linkages: understanding their role in polycentric governance

Philipp Pattberg / Sander Chan / Lisa Sanderink / Oscar Widerberg (2018)
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Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement

Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Copyright WBGU Press Release of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) of 17 September 2014 Climate policy is getting nowhere, while climate change continues unchecked. Yet in the midst of this crisis of humankind there is new hope. It has to do with strong movements towards sustainability that have recently been forming everywhere in civil society: social…

Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact

Hale, Thomas .N. / Sander Chan / Angel Hsu / Andrew Clapper / Cynthia Elliott / Pedro Faria / Takeshi Kuramochi / Shannon McDaniel / Milimer Morgado / Mark Roelfsema / Mayra Santaella / Neelam Singh / Ian Tout / Chris Weber / Amy Weinfurter / Oscar Widerberg (2020)
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Modeling the potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on groundnut production in India

Kadiyala, M.D.M. / Swamikannu Nedumaran / Jyosthnaa Padmanabhan / Murali Krishna Gumma / Sridhar Gummadi / Srinivas Reddy Srigirid / Richard Robertson / Anthony Whitbread (2021)
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The IMF and the macro-criticality of climate change

Volz, Ulrich (2021)
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IDOS@COP27

Sharm El-Sheikh, 06. November 2022

At the Conference of the Parties to the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention. Building on the outcomes and…

Klimalog – Research and dialogue for a climate-smart and just transformation

The adoption of an ambitious international climate agenda at the upcoming UN climate conference in Paris and its resolute implementation are essential for sustainable development across the globe. With a view to prospective international climate policy, IDOS promotes the awareness of interlinkages between climate change and development and investigates specific conditions for a climate-smart and just transformation towards decarbonisation and resilience.

Working together to achieve the Paris climate goals and sustainable development

Online, 20. September 2021

Whether the global climate can be stabilised at a warming of 1.5°C depends on whether the goals and measures of climate policy by 2030 are sufficiently ambitious. Failure to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement would ultimately undermine the achievement of just and sustainable global development that leaves no one behind.…

Feeling the heat: climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2020)
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Met Halsema kan Amsterdam nu echt duurzamer worden

Chan, Sander (2018)
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