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Reshaping energy planning in developing countries

Bonn, 02. February 2017

Energy access is hallowed as an important component of the Paris Agreement on climate change. In addition, recognition of its fundamental role in achieving other global essentials, such as gender equality, economic empowerment, abolishment of indoor air pollution and deforestation, and water and food security, has led to universal energy…

The G20 and Africa – an alliance for sustainability?

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger (2017)
The Current Column, 30. January 2017

Cooperation with Africa is high on Germany’s agenda for its G20 Presidency. This creates high expectations for Germany and Europe’s future policies on Africa.

DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks

DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks Press release, 26 January 2017 Philadelphia / Bonn . The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) was named among the best research institutions and policy-advisers in the world. This is according to the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index Report by the University of Pennsylvania. Among the category Top…

Trump, the Middle East and Germany

Trautner, Bernhard / Mark Furness (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Which impact does a changed US policy in the Middle East have from the point of view of the German development policy and in the broader sense of international cooperation?

Why data access matters: the NDC Explorer reveals new insights on national climate action plans

Pauw, Pieter / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo (2017)
The Current Column, 16. January 2017

With the NDC Explorer, an online visualisation tool, we aim to create more transparency about countries’ ambitions and priorities.

No sustainable development goals without the G20

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
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The urban planet: how cities save our future

Kraas, Frauke / Claus Leggewie / Peter Lemke / Ellen Matthies / Dirk Messner / Nebojsa Nakicenovic / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Sabine Schlacke / Uwe Schneidewind (2016)
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Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.) (2017)
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Success of VSS depends on the national sustainable development strategies

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée (2016)
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Between global and local governance: the critical ecosystem partnership fund in China

Chan, Sander / Ayşem Mert / Philipp Pattberg (2017)
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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.

Interventionism and the Fear of Urban Agency in Afghanistan and Iraq

Esser, Daniel E. (2016)
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Assessing agricultural systems vulnerability to climate change to inform adaptation planning: an application in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Animesh K. Gain / Carlo Giupponi (2016)
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At the wooden cross-road

Hoffmann, Harry / Michael Brüntrup / Klas Sander (2016)
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Soft energy paths revisited: politics and practice in energy technology transitions

Schelly, Chelsea / Aparajita Banerjee (2016)
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Renewable energy and economic growth in the MENA region: empirical evidence and policy implications

Dees, Philipp / Georgeta Vidican Auktor (2018)
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Development and justice through transformation: the four big ‘I’s

Kraas, Frauke / Claus Leggewie / Peter Lemke / Ellen Matthies / Dirk Messner / Nebojsa Nakicenovic / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Sabine Schlacke / Uwe Schneidewind / in collaboration with Clara Brandi et al. (2016)
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Urban sewage in Brazil: drivers of and obstacles to wastewater treatment and reuse; governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Series

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2016)
Discussion Paper 26/2016

Wastewater collection and treatment still largely struggles with overcoming barriers related to financial, institutional, political and socio-economic factors as well as limited capacity. The great potential for wastewater reuse has not yet been fully tapped, despite initial promising initiatives.

2017: After the magic of beginnings

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2016)
The Current Column, 19. December 2016

Worldwide, numerous actors from civil society, the corporate sector and academia have made the 17 goals and the climate agenda their own business. A remarkable momentum. At the same time, three observations give cause for concern

Out of Africa: The 2016 Nairobi Conference on Earth System Governance leads by example

Bauer, Steffen / Fariborz Zelli (2016)
The Current Column, 12. December 2016

The 2016 Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG) was a premiere. It was the first to convene in Africa. It was about time!