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Carbon-abolitionism, now!

Bauer, Steffen / Bernd Sommer (2011)
The Current Column, 11. April 2011

Climate (im)mobility in urban contexts: from recognition to action

Ekoh, Susan S. (2023)
Policy Brief 15/2023

This policy brief presents gaps and challenges involved in addressing climate change and human mobility in cities. Although actors recognize the nexus of climate change and human mobility and the urban dimensions, efforts to address this is far from what it should be.

The entanglement of climate change in north-south relations: stumbling blocks and opportunities for negotiation

Hernandez, Ariel / Ariel Penetrante (2011)
External Publications

Geopolitics, the Global South and Development Policy

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
Policy Brief 14/2023

Far-reaching geopolitical upheavals have shaped international relations in the recent past. This policy brief discusses the new geopolitical and geo-economic context and its significance for the Global South and development policy.

China at the United Nations

Online, 28. May 2024

Global Policy Special Issue edited by Sebastian Haug , Rosemary Foot and Max-Otto Baumann Has China’s expanding engagement led to any power shifts at the United Nations? This launch event – co-hosted by the China Centre at the University of Oxford, Fudan University and IDOS – provided an overview of key findings from a Global Policy…

Bracing for the typhoon: climate change and sovereign risk in Southeast Asia

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
External Publications

Bracing for the typhoon: climate change and sovereign risk in Southeast Asia

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
External Publications

Social Protection in a Changing Climate

Online, 26. November 2020

Climate change will inevitably affect us in significant ways in the near and long-term future, reshaping many of the risks we face. While an increasingly growing number of frameworks recognize the relevance of climate-sensitive, adaptive or shock-responsive social protection, no vision fully articulates yet what role social protection…

(How) does social protection promote climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Bonn, 26. November 2025

The deadline for applications has been extended to 21 May Social protection is crucial for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In times of rising inequalities and poverty rates, social protection must continue addressing life cycle risks to prevent individuals from falling further into poverty while also aiding those…

COP23 – The eyes of the world are on Bonn

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi (2017)
External Publications

Decision-making in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change

Decision-making in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change Download Decision-making_in_the_Context_of_Adaptation_to_Climate_Change_27.09.10_Programme.pdf Decision-making_in_the_Context_of_Adaptation_to_Climate_Change_27.09.10_Report.pdf

Knowledge diplomacy in climate politics: global policy-making through regional lens

Hernandez, Ariel (2018)
External Publications

Climate change, land degradation & desertification

Bonn, 29. August 2016

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) welcomed Lindsay C. Stringer of the renowned Sustainability Research Institute of University of Leeds, UK, to present her new book Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change: Anticipating, assessing and adapting to future change (Earthscan 2016,…

Next steps for China’s new development agency

Liu, Wei / Heiner Janus (2018)
The Current Column, 27. November 2018

China's development agency CIDCA has published new guidelines on the the practices of all Chinese institutions engaged in foreign aid.

Climate change and sovereign risk

Volz, Ulrich / John Beirne / Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme / Adrian Fenton / Emilie Mazzacurati / Nuobu Renzhi / Jeanne Stampe (2020)
External Publications

“Climate refugees” in Europe? Climate-related migration affects developing countries in particular

Mathis, Okka Lou / Benjamin Schraven (2015)
The Current Column, 11. December 2015

The refugee crisis is this year’s central issue and one that we are likely to be dealing with for a long time to come. We are already receiving some very vocal warnings that the current refugee crisis is just a foretaste of larger and unbroken streams of “climate refugees” that could descend on Europe in future as climate change continues.

Germany needs an Energy Transformation foreign policy

Messner, Dirk / Jennifer Morgan (2013)
The Current Column, 07. January 2013

Climate mainstreaming in environmental treaties

Olivier, Annabelle / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2025)
Policy Brief 17/2025

The IMF and the macro-criticality of climate change

Volz, Ulrich (2021)
External Publications

The 2030 Agenda has been adopted and will now be implemented

Scholz, Imme (2015)
The Current Column, 30. September 2015

New York, Bonn, 28 September 2015. The gavel fell on 25 September 2015 at 11:46 a. m. New York time, signifying the adoption of the 2030 Agenda. What did the attending heads of state have to say?