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The hidden costs of coffee production in the Eastern African value chains

Adong, Annet / Lukas Kornher / Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu / Aslihan Arslan (2024)
External Publications

The role of labour power in sustainability transitions: insights from comparative political economy on Germany’s electricity transition

Prinz, Lukas / Anna Pegels (2018)
External Publications

Estimating economic losses from perceived heat stress in urban Malaysia

Zander, Kerstin K. / Supriya Mathew (2019)
External Publications

Cooperation for the Sake of Cooperation?

Potsdam, 08. September 2023

The current global dynamics have significant consequences on policy-making in and beyond the Arctic. To limit the effects of the ever more visible global climate crisis, however, multi-dimensional and multi-sided cooperation remain crucial. To better understand how legitimacies are constructed and used to intensify and to abandon…

Behavioral changes during Asia's net zero transition: evidence from middle-class household consumption

Never, Babette (2023)
External Publications

Mitigating poverty: the patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru

Malerba, Daniele / Anja Gaentzsch / Hauke Ward (2020)
External Publications

Transnational cooperation in times of rapid global changes: the Arctic Council as a success case?

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2020)
Discussion Paper 12/2020

How can transnational cooperation be more successful in times of rapid global changes? This discussion paper discusses central assumptions from global governance research on transnational cooperation and explores the Arctic Council as a case of success.

The corona virus and its consequences for national, European and global sustainability and climate policy as well as international cooperation

Online, 03. April 2020

The coronavirus and the Covid-19 pandemic are currently determining our lives and thus also our work: not only in terms of organisation, but also in terms of content. While the current focus is of course on crisis management, some members and partners of SDSN Germany have already dealt with the consequences of the corona crisis for…

Political ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia agrarian conflicts and forest carbon

Hein, Jonas (2019)
Books

Eichhorn, Friederike

Former member of staff at German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Slow onset climate change impacts: global trends and the role of science-policy partnerships

Matias, Denise Margaret (2017)
Discussion Paper 24/2017

Research on slow onset climate change events is increasing. However, most research is conducted by authors from and in the regions of North America and Europe despite negative effects of slow onset events already affecting developing countries.

Towards “greening” trade? Tracking environmental provisions in the preferential trade agreements of emerging markets

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Dominique Bruhn / Manjiao Chi (2017)
Discussion Paper 2/2017

Are trade agreements becoming ‘greener’? We analyse environmental provisions in trade agreements signed by emerging markets. Our findings indicate a trend towards more environmental content and suggest that these developments may have been partly triggered by OECD countries’ policy-making.

Integrated water resources management under different hydrological, climatic and socio-economic conditions: results and lessons learned from a transdisciplinary IWRM project IWAS

Seegert, Jörg / Thomas Berendonk / Christian Bernhofer / Frank Blumensaat / Ines Dombrowsky / Christoph Fuehner / Jens Grundmann / Nina Hagemann / Thomas Kalbacher / Frank-Dieter Kopinke / Rudolf Liedl / Marco Leidel / Carsten Lorz / Frank Makeschin / Dar (2014)
External Publications

Green and social: managing synergies and trade-offs

Bonn, 12. March 2014

Existing development pathways need to be transformed so that they are more environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. These two agendas can be synergistic or conflicting. Synergies have been explored to some extent in recent concepts such as the ‘green economy’, while the associated trade-offs and conflicts have received less…

On the role of central banks in enhancing green finance

Volz, Ulrich (2017)
External Publications

Is Germany’s energy transition a case of successful green industrial policy? Contrasting wind and solar PV

Pegels, Anna / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2014)
External Publications

European Think Tanks Group

Special "The European Think Tanks Group": The European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) brings together four leading European international development think tanks, among them the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Welcoming a new generation of European leaders, ETTG and this special call attention to the importance of a global perspective in European policy-making.

Social Policy, Poverty, Inequality

Researchers at IDOS analyse insurance and transfer systems as well as traditional and informal forms of social security and mechanisms to support small farmers.

Green Economy

Researchers at the IDOS are investigating instruments of ecological structural policy and global regulatory frameworks that support corresponding transformation processes.

Lindenberg, Nannette

Former Senior Researcher at German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).