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Assuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments

Stamm, Andreas / Jeffrey Orozco (2020)
The Current Column, 04. May 2020

The Costa Rican government has proposed to the WHO that it should lead a global effort to pool intellectual rights on technologies that are useful against Covid-19.

Incentives and rules for fair supply chains

Müngersdorff, Maximilian / Tim Stoffel (2020)
The Current Column, 14. May 2020

The corona crisis is intensifying social ills in many global supply chains. The negative consequences are hitting workers in the producer countries of the global South particularly hard.

COVID-19 has not killed global populism

Burni, Aline (2020)
The Current Column, 25. June 2020

Although populist leaders fail to provide adequate responses to the COVID-19 outbreak, it is too early to say that the virus has killed populism for good.

Why social protection is crucial in the corona crisis

Strupat, Christoph / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2020)
The Current Column, 26. March 2020

The Spanish flu was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, claiming up to 50 million lives worldwide between 1918 and 1919. It has many parallels with the current coronavirus and the international community would do well to learn from such past pandemics.

A fundamental transformation of tax systems is needed in the wake of Covid-19

von Haldenwang, Christian / Sabine Laudage / Armin von Schiller (2020)
The Current Column, 29. June 2020

Tax systems will play a key role in absorbing the social and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in developing countries.

What we can learn from and about Africa in the corona crisis

Roll, Michael (2020)
The Current Column, 02. April 2020

Is Africa defenceless in the face of the corona pandemic? In part, some African countries are even better prepared for pandemics than Europe and the United States. Nigeria’s success in fighting its 2014 Ebola outbreak illustrates why that is the case.

Obama’s Legacy in Africa

Lundsgaarde, Erik (2013)
The Current Column, 21. January 2013

Dirty, not sexy: soils are in need of attention

Bauer, Steffen (2012)

Water-energy-food: do we need a nexus perspective? The Bonn Nexus Conference

Dombrowsky, Ines (2011)
The Current Column, 14. November 2011

World Food Day 2009: never have so many people suffered from hunger

Neubert, Susanne (2009)
The Current Column, 12. October 2009

2009

2009 Jump to: Archive 2009 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2009 Jan . Feb . March April May June July Aug . Sep . Oct . Nov . Dec . December «Jetzt müssen wir den gordischen Knoten durchhauen» Nach dem dürftigen Ergebnis von Kopenhagen ist guter Rat teuer. Dirk Messner , wissenschaftlicher Berater der deutschen Regierung, schlägt ein Klima-Abkommen vor, das besser, einfacher und gerechter sei. Der Bund…

Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy-making

Mathis, Okka Lou / Michael Rose / Jens Newig / Bauer, Steffen (2022)
External Publications

Understanding the role of natural hazards in internal labour mobility in Australia

Kerstin K. Zander / Tom Wilson / Stephen T. Garnett (2020)
External Publications

Exploring national and regional orchestration of non-state action for a < 1.5 °C world

Chan, Sander / Paula Ellinger / Oscar Widerberg (2018)
External Publications

Common good policies in Africa

DIE is examining options for shaping future cooperation with Africa in such a way for achieving a transformation to sustainable development in Africa.

The learning activation approach - understanding Indonesia’s energy transition by teaching it

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac / Prakoso, Yudhi Timor Bimo (2021)
External Publications

Green Deal Approaches and the Transformation of External Relations

Online, 20. September 2021

Several nations have developed agendas with the aim to achieve climate neutrality and the other transformations in the fields of biodiversity, circular economy, and agri-food systems while strengthening the economy at the same time. However, they often lack clarity as to how these approaches will be translated in their relations with…

Developing a framework for the analysis of Arctic indigenous institutions in a rapidly transforming region

Götze, Jacqueline (2020)
External Publications

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)
Books

The Treaty of Aachen: opportunities and challenges for Franco-German cooperation in development policy and beyond

Krüger, Laura-Theresa / Julie Vaillé (2019)
Discussion Paper 8/2019

Despite the continued high-level commitment to French-German cooperation in development, bilateral cooperation so far remains rather opportunity- than strategy-driven. This Discussion Paper seeks to analyse the main obstacles and how these play out in practice.