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Why it is worth to support and protect democracy worldwide

Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.

Ocean regions in inter- and transnational cooperation

Special "Ocean regions in inter- and transnational cooperation": Our experts investigate how the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda can succeed in marine areas for humanity at large.

Institutional mechanisms for scaling up finance for the SDGs in ASEAN: lessons from the European Union

Volz, Ulrich (2022)
External Publications

Connections that matter: how the quality of governance institutions may be the booster shot we need to reduce poverty and inequality

Allen, Cameron / Julia Kercher / Anita Breuer / Julia Leininger / Pooja Balasubramanian (2022)
External Publications

Just transitions: a review of how to decarbonise energy systems while addressing poverty and inequality reduction

Malerba, Daniele (2022)
Discussion Paper 6/2022

Energy transitions and policies that incentivize it (such as carbon pricing and subsidy reforms) can increase poverty and inequality through higher prices and job disruptions. Using social protection mechanism can reverse these negative effects and make climate mitigation more politically feasible.

From combating desertification to comprehensive soil and drought management

Brüntrup, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 16. May 2022

Fresh momentum has recently been injected into the UNCCD. One key step was the UN’s decision to make UNCCD the custodian agency for SDG target 15.3.

Enabling Narratives Towards a Green Digital Transformation

Instituto Mora, Mexico, 04. May 2022

Global sustainable development agendas and conceptual discussions on digital transformation are often still analyzed separately. Under the COVID 19 pandemic, digital transformation has shown the multiple benefits it can deliver for societies: new pathways for access to education, an impulse to technological and economic innovation,…

Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens: the role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement

Iacobuta, Gabriela / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo / Sofia Durón (2022)
External Publications

Enablers of ambitious climate action: challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development

Iacobuta, Gabriela (2021)
Books

Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050

van Vuuren, Detlef P. / Caroline Zimm / Sebastian Busch et al. (2022)
External Publications

New rules, same practice? Analysing UN Development System reform effects at the country level

Weinlich, Silke / Max-Otto Baumann / Maria Cassens-Sasse / Rebecca Hadank-Rauch / Franziska Leibbrandt / Marie Pardey / Manuel Simon / Anina Strey (2022)
Discussion Paper 3/2022

Has the recent reform of the UN development system led to a better collective offer to developing countries, in line with the 2030 Agenda and its requirements? The paper presents the main findings, conclusions, and recommendations from research on reform implementation.

Localising the SDGs in India: the role of government and private training institutes

Sengupta, Sreerupa / Avik Sinha (2022)
Discussion Paper 1/2022

Capacity development in the public sector is essential for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study explores the SDG training landscape for government officials in India by mapping the role of government and private players, the resources required and current shortcomings.

Corruption in the water sector

Online, 18. January 2022

Corruption hampers the achievement of SDG 6 for ensuring water and sanitation for all. In fact, corruption is estimated to be responsible for “losses” of 10% of the investments going into the capital intensive water sector and in some countries reaching as high as 40% to 50% (WIN, 2020). This in turn leads to higher costs for drinking…

Perceptions of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: a case study of Irish non-state actors

Banerjee, Aparajita / Enda Murphy / Patrick Paul Walsh (2021)
External Publications

On the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Saravanan V. Subramanian / Katharina Molitor (2021)
The Current Column, 20. December 2021

The resolution could be an important contribution in helping development actors to set global and national standards to protect people against environmental harm, to provide equal access to environmental benefits, and to ensure a common minimum standard of environmental quality for everyone.

Reform of the UN development system cries out for higher goals

Baumann, Max-Otto (2021)
External Publications

Bold changes were planned to reposition the United Nations development system to meet the needs of the 2030 Agenda. With most reforms carried out by now, and six years into the 2030 Agenda, it is a good time to review progress and remaining challenges.

Contributions of marine area-based management tools to the UN sustainable development goals

Gissi, Elena / Frank Maes / Zacharoula Kyriazi [...]/ Anna-Katharina Hornidge et al. (2021)
External Publications

SDG-aligned futures and the governance of transformation to sustainability: reconsidering governance perspectives on the futures we aspire to

Hernandez, Ariel (2021)
Discussion Paper 30/2021

This paper draws concepts from economics, sociology and political science and identifies the four different types of resources represented in three different scenarios of a sustainable future – the SDG-aligned scenarios - that can help governance be conducive to transformation to sustainability.

How Germany’s 2022 G7 Presidency could shape change

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2021)
The Current Column, 15. November 2021

The German G7 Presidency should coordinate closely with France, Italy and the EU to place the focus on assuming responsibility for the global common good and strengthening cooperation within the UN and G20 frameworks.

Klimalog@COP26

Glasgow, 31. October 2021

Researchers of the project " Klimalog: Research and dialogue for a just and SDG-compatible implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement " of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will co-host and take part in a number of events at the 26 th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the…