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Implementing green industrial policy

Pegels, Anna / Bastian Becker (2014)
External Publications

Don’t let technical questions keep climate finance from flowing

Pauw, Pieter / Adis Dzebo (2014)
The Current Column, 26. May 2014

The debate on climate finance focuses increasingly on technical questions which seems to delay action on mobilizing private-sector finance.

Launch of SDSN Germany

Launch of SDSN Germany Jump to: Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Press Release, 9 May 2014 Ten German knowledge institutions have just appointed an initial group of high-ranking Leadership Council members for the newly established Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany ( SDSN Germany ). It…

Reforming fossil-fuel subsidy regimes in the Middle East and North African countries

Vidican, Georgeta (2014)
External Publications

Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Bonn, 19. May 2014

The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Press Release, 6 May 2014 The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation calls for a stronger global role of the European Union (EU), especially in its relations with the developing world. The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation worries, that Europe is so preoccupied with its own economic and social…

Energy and water for MENA: From risks to opportunities

Vidican, Georgeta / Annabelle Houdret (2014)
The Current Column, 05. May 2014

Innovative solutions are needed to transform risks of the energy and water crises into opportunities in MENA. A nexus approach could contribute to reducing regional vulnerabilities.

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

Lessons for successful green industrial policy

Pegels, Anna (2014)
External Publications

Why we need a green industrial policy

Pegels, Anna (2014)
External Publications

Als ik in zo’n windmolen mag klimmen, prima

Pauw, Pieter (2014)
External Publications

Making energy efficiency pro-poor: insights from behavioural economics for policy design

Never, Babette (2014)
Discussion Paper 11/2014

This paper reviews the current state of the art in behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as examples, it develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy policy design.

The Mexico High Level Meeting on Effective Cooperation: Prelude or Swan Song?

Keijzer, Niels / Erik Lundsgaarde (2014)
The Current Column, 14. April 2014

To fulfill its potential, the Global Partnership should place renewed emphasis on common principles rather than common goals.

Russia and the German Energiewende – Is there a connection?

Ruchser, Matthias (2014)
The Current Column, 28. March 2014

The West has imposed sanctions on the Russian banking sector as well as on Russian and Ukrainian individuals with close contacts to the Putin regime. It remains to be seen to what extent the Europeans are willing to also impose economic sanctions on Russia.

Evolution of dam policies: evidence from the big hydropower states

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth (eds.) (2014)
Books

Have international sustainability norms reached the emerging economies? Evidence from dams in Brazil, China, India and Turkey

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth / Nirmalya Choudhury (2014)
External Publications

Water and electricity for the "bottom billion"

Scheumann, Waltina / Ines Dombrowsky (2014)
The Current Column, 24. March 2014

There are still 780 million people who have to get by without clean drinking water, while some 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation facilities. With regard to this, we will fall far short of achieving the Millennium Development Goal.

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. March 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Berlin: cautious launch for new global development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Mahn (2014)
The Current Column, 17. March 2014

What makes the DCF, which is little known outside expert groups, an important platform for future debates on development policy? This question can be answered by presenting four theses.

Privatization of Turkey’s rivers? The rise of water struggles and AKP government’s responses

Bonn, 12. March 2014

Rivers offer a huge potential for the generation of ‘clean’ electricity through hydropower development. But are the environmental impacts of dams really that small and does public interest in the name of renewable energy sources justify expropriation of local populations? In Turkey, these questions lead to heated debates– in midst of…