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African-European Relations (Vol. 19)

Erforth, Benedikt / Keijzer, Niels (2023)
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Germany and the EU woo rising powers

Lynders, Eva / Wulf Reiners / Johanna Vogel (2023)
The Current Column, 25. September 2023

Global cooperation must serve more than a narrow understanding of self-interest. Transnational knowledge networks are indispensable for shaping a fair and functional partnership of mutual benefit.

How to streamline Sámi rights into Policy-Making in the European Union?

Nystø Keskitalo, Anja Márjá / Jacqueline Götze (2023)
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Paving the way for the SDG Summit?

Wisskirchen, Alma / Axel Berger (2023)
The Current Column, 04. September 2023

“It is vital that the summits in New Delhi and New York generate political momentum and also result in concrete initiatives, as the progress made halfway through the 2030 Agenda timeline is disastrously slow.“

Is Africa left behind in the global climate finance architecture: redefining climate vulnerability and revamping the climate finance landscape - a comprehensive review

Tamasiga, Phemelo / Malesela Molala / Malebogo Bakwena / Hugue Nkoutchou / Helen Onyeaka (2023)
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For a more binding nature of commitments in the 2030 Agenda implementation

Waltenberg, Tabea / Leonie Droste (2023)
The Current Column, 28. August 2023

Even though the very existence of the 2030 Agenda as a joint steering instrument can certainly be seen as a success in view of the complex conflicts of interest at a multilateral level, the agenda needs to act as a framework throughout the world through legally binding norms and laws in order to accelerate its implementation.

Are Southern voices and the SDGs the way to success for India’s G20 presidency?

Dang, Vy / Eva Lynders / Wulf Reiners (2023)
The Current Column, 21. August 2023

To secure that success, India sees a solution in re-orienting its G20 narrative towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an existing common point of reference and framework for cooperation.

Messner, Dirk

Dirk Messner is director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Policy (in)coherence in Germany’s Energiewende

Bonn, 19. June 2023

Background Key to meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Agenda and the Paris Agreement in Germany is the energy transition – dubbed the Energiewende - for which several policy plans and packages have been envisioned, proposed and passed into law. One of the most controversial has been the Coal Exit Law, which, enacted in May 2020, set…

Press release: Prosperous but not healthy? Healthy living on a healthy planet

Healthy living on a healthy planet’ – this is the title and vision of the WBGU’s new flagship report, which will be presented today to Steffi Lemke, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, and Judith Pirscher, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World

Bonn, 05. June 2023

This book launch event on “ Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World ” presents a landmark publication in Palgrave Macmillan’s Contemporary African Political Economy series. A timely contribution to African agency in international relations, it spells out the bold perspective of a group of African scholars on how to…

From Rovaniemi to Tromsø spirit?

Methi, Kirsti / Dorothea Wehrmann (2023)
The Current Column, 30. May 2023

A new Tromsø Arctic spirit is needed to co-create a democratic legitimacy and relevance of the Arctic Council with respect for the peoples and local governance structures in the Arctic region.

Embedding spillover effects in the German Sustainable Development Strategy

Droste, Leonie / Linda Lütkes / Tabea Waltenberg (2023)
The Current Column, 22. May 2023

Germany’s goal has to be to avoid negative spillover effects in order to work together with other countries to implement the 2030 Agenda at global level rather than hindering these countries’ own efforts. Such spillover effects and the establishment of binding structures must therefore be clearly addressed in the German Sustainable Development Strategy.

Instruction by the Minister of Finance

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
The Current Column, 04. May 2023

The posting simplifies and distorts Germany's laudable ODA performance, but links it to a political announcement: there will be no more money!

Ukraine’s Reconstruction and European Integration

Online, 27. April 2023

The session will take place on April 27th at 3:00 pm (UTC+2). The two speakers are Yulia Rybak , Co-Head of German–Ukrainian Energy Partnership & Adviser to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, and Julian Bergmann , Senior Researcher at IDOS. Although Russia’s war against Ukraine is still ongoing, it is already clear that a huge…

The global race to subsidise green technologies

Altenburg, Tilman / Axel Berger/ Clara Brandi (2023)
The Current Column, 17. April 2023

If competition between major industrialised nations over subsidies is focused on key green technologies, then this will accelerate the urgently needed development of clean technologies.

Green hydrogen – new opportunities for sustainable development in the Global South?

Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
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Green hydrogen – support for the just transition?

Altenburg, Tilman / Andreas Stamm / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
The Current Column, 13. March 2023

The energy transition will only be widely accepted if it is a socially responsible, i.e. a just, transition. This is possible, but it requires adapting the German approach to hydrogen policy.

Knowledge cooperation and capacity development for transnational cooperation

Grimm, Sven / Samantha Ruppel (2023)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Green Industrial Policy

We need to pursue economic development and wealth creation while keeping resource consumption and pollution in accordance with Earth’s bio-capacity. This is what Green Industrial Policy is about.