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Climate Technology and Development

Bonn, 25. June 2013

For many years, the climate negotiations focused almost exclusively on instruments that form markets for greenhouse gas emission reductions. The Kyoto Protocol is a good example of this. Since 2007, however, negotiating countries acknowledge that without suitable technology-specific measures, it is unlikely that climate change can be…

Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses: impact of individual actors and cooperative initiatives on global and national emissions

Kuramochi, Takeshi / Swithin Lui / Niklas Höhne / […]/ Sander Chan et. al. (2019)
Books

What will peace demand from Colombia?

von Schiller, Armin / Alejandro Guarín (2013)
The Current Column, 12. August 2013

Gender equality promotes development: the World Bank’s gender action plan

Müller, Claudia (2009)
Briefing Paper 14/2009

‘Managing’ the paradox: refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity

Kohlenberger, Judith / Martin-Shields, Charles / Easton-Calabria, Evan (2025)
External Publications

Transforming carbon consumption patterns of the new middle classes

Bonn, 23. November 2017

The unprecedented growth of the new middle classes in middle income developing countries implies a strong growth in both consumption and carbon emissions. If the new middle classes mirror the carbon-intensive lifestyles of the industrialized countries, the remaining carbon space to manage climate change will close much more quickly. But…

Enabling Sustainable Urban Growth

Bonn, 11. February 2015

Cities present a crucial challenge and opportunity in the coming decades, as more than 2.5 billion people are expected to be added to the world’s urban areas by 2050. There is strong evidence that improved economic productivity and resource efficiency that accompany urbanization can be achieved while simultaneously addressing the…

From Lima to Paris, and beyond: options for ex ante assessment of intended nationally determined contributions under the UNFCCC

van Asselt, Harro / Håkon Sælen / Pieter Pauw (2014)
External Publications

Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for greater gender equality: synthesis study

Götze, Jacqueline / Stephan Klingebiel / Maryam Khalid (2025)
Discussion Paper 9/2025

Local feminist perspectives have the potential to act as transformation levers for greater gender equality by producing context-specific alternative approaches to development processes that address prevailing gender norms and practices.

Statehood and governance: challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

Klingebiel, Stephan / Sven Grimm (2007)
Briefing Paper 3/2007

Trump’s trade policy, development cooperation and the Global South

Brandi, Clara (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Informal consultation on the Human Development Report 2012 and 2013

Bonn, 24. November 2011

The UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO), the German UN Association and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) held an informal day-long discussion on three possible themes for forthcoming Human Development Reports, including i) the rising global south, ii) the developmental state and…

2008

2008 Jump to: Archive 2008 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2008 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. December Article Weathering the American Contagion DIE-economist Ulrich Volz analyses the impact of the world-wide financial and economic crisis on China and discusses what China might add to solve the international crisis. Far Eastern Economic Review 28 December 2008 Climate…

International cooperation policy for sustainability transformations in disruptive times

Berger, Axel / Priyadarshi Dash / Paula von Haaren / Lena-Marie Putz / André de Mello e Souza (2025)
Policy Brief 22/2025

As global disruptions and power dynamics are reshaping aid and trade, how can low- and middle-income countries build resilience and new alliances? This policy brief explores how disruption can trigger new forms of cooperation.

Don’t lump together apples and oranges – Adaptation finance is different from mitigation finance

Lindenberg, Nannette / Pieter Pauw (2013)
The Current Column, 04. November 2013

Next Monday, the 19th annual Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opens its doors in Warsaw.

Assessing the use of forest ecosystem services analyses as a national policy-making tool in Peru

Guarín, Alejandro / Hotz, Hannes (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

El análisis de servicios ecosistémicos forestales como herramienta para la formulación de políticas nacionales en el Perú

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Towards a stronger shared climate and development finance agenda: what role for the FfD4?

Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2025)
External Publications

Global imbalances: a job for the G20?

Fischer, Roger A. (2019)
Discussion Paper 18/2019

Excessive current account imbalances accumulate because the global economy cannot effectively transform funds into consumption and productive investment. The G20 is well placed to foster international coordination to reduce global imbalances. To do so its current procedures need to be reformed.

Climate action in the Global South

Nairobi, 16. October 2018

It is now conventional wisdom that many of the fundamental challenges the world faces in the 21st century are inherently “global challenges.” It is similarly commonly agreed that our ability to manage global challenges is woefully inadequate. There is thus an urgent need to explore new strategies to promote effective cooperation.…