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UN – Fit for Future Generations?

Online, 19. April 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…

Decolonising Discourse Studies

Hybrid (Online and Augsburg University), 21. April 2022

Discourse Studies have an important record of analysing all types of open and subtle discrimination in and through discourses. Racism in all its varieties is one of the most researched topics in discourse studies. However, the influence of postcolonialism and eurocentrism in discourse studies itself has seldom been object of deeper…

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Carbon lock-in and contradictions - applied guide to academic teaching of Mexico’s energy transition

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac / Daniel Alejandro Pacheco Rojas / Diana Barrón Villaverde (2021)
External Publications

Shifting to the digital: a case study of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) academy as a digital learning format

Fiselier, Evelien (2021)
External Publications

How can the EU support its partner countries to avoid and resolve debt crises?

Online, 19. March 2021

Many developing countries will not find their way out of the COVID-19 crisis on their own, and in addition to the direct public health and economic implications face both immediate and medium-term fiscal challenges. As long-standing providers of concessional finance and direct investment to developing countries, the international…

Reading on Water Governance

Billions of people have no access to clean drinking water or safe sanitation. Water scarcity threatens food and energy production or leads to conflict.

Impact Assessments in Governance Programmes

Bonn, 10. November 2016

Measuring the performance and impact of governance programmes is challenging. Due to the complexity of these programmes and the difficulty to gauge their outcomes, among other reasons, rigorous evaluations are less common in governance than in other sectors. In response to these shortcomings, GIZ and the German Development Institute /…

Can climate insurance address climate risks while adhering to fair and pro-poor principles?

Katowice, Poland, 08. December 2018

Approaches to managing disasters in the last century typically focused almost exclusively on response, and were detached in theory and practice from activities that influenced societal vulnerability and exposure. More recently these approaches have been replaced by integrated disaster and climate risk management. Integrated approaches…

Lukas Frucht

Lukas Frucht is Geographer and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of political (dis-)order: Institutions, values & peace".

A critical review of the follow-the-innovation approach: stakeholder collaboration and agricultural innovation development

Amankwa, Kwadwo / Anastasiya Shtaltovna / Girma Kelboro / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2016)
External Publications

International technology cooperation: lessons for the upcoming technology mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Bhasin, Shikha (2013)
Briefing Paper 20/2013

Unlocking the irrigation potential in sub-Saharan Africa: are public-private partnerships the way forward?

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret / Michael Brüntrup (2017)
Briefing Paper 7/2017

Can public-private partnerships in irrigation improve food security in Africa? Our briefing paper argues that it is possible if partnerships go beyond irrigation, farmers are organized and supported, and governments secure stable conditions especially for land and water use and protect public goods.

Taxing carbon as an instrument of green industrial policy in developing countries

Pegels, Anna (2016)
Discussion Paper 23/2016

This study reviews evidence on competitiveness, employment and distributional effects of carbon taxes with a view on informing the decisions of policy makers and bureaucrats in developing and emerging countries. It emphasizes design options to mitigate negative and generate positive effects.

Future of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation

Johannesburg, 02. February 2017

Against the background of a record year for multilateralism with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Climate Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, expectations for the Second High-level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) in Nairobi in December 2016 have been high.…

Post 2015: the need for an enabling global economic governance framework

Berensmann, Kathrin / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi (2015)
Briefing Paper 15/2015

Whilst the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development does more to address global economic governance issues than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fail to address key global economic challenges in the areas of trade and international finance.

The role of finance and related policies for biodiversity conservation

Bonn, 11. November 2015

2015 is a crucial year for biodiversity because this year’s decisions will have a huge impact for biodiversity conservation and funding in the next fifteen years. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets complement the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on conserving and sustainably using biodiversity…

Global Justice through Global Goals?

Bonn, 05. October 2015

Joshua Castellino , member of the global SDSN Leadership Council and Dean of the School of Law at Middlesex University, looked at the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of “global justice”. The pursuit of SDGs will keep raising questions of justice, which need to be…

Why we need more and better biodiversity aid

Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Katharina Stepping (2016)
Briefing Paper 13/2016

Is biodiversity aid effective? Should there be more or less biodiversity aid available? What other actions should be taken, in parallel to biodiversity aid, in order to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity? These are some of the questions that this briefing paper answers for policy makers.

Shifting wealth: Rising powers and the new world order

Bonn, 30. July 2012

The second Managing Global Governance (MGG) Public Lecture this year featured Helmut Reisen , Head of Research at the OECD Development Centre in Paris and Professor of International Economics at the University of Basel. An award-winning writer and columnist, he has published extensively on the rise of new powers, global imbalances,…