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Financing the 2030 Agenda: an SDG alignment framework for public development banks

Riaño, Maria Alejandra / Samantha Attridge / San Bilal / Niels Keijzer / Benedikt Erforth / Danielle Fattibene / Elisabeth Hege / Martin Evans / Iliana Olivié / Damien Barchiche (2021)
External Publications

Electricity transition in the MENA: a de-risking governance approach

Vidican, Georgeta / Luigi Carafa / Gianleo Frisari (2015)
External Publications

El impacto económico del acuerdo Unión Europea - Mercosur en España

Latorre, María C. / Hidemichi Yonezawa / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2021)
External Publications

Towards a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Online / Bratislava, 07. September 2021

Most likely caused by a virus spillover from wildlife to humans, the COVID-19 pandemic epitomizes the disastrous consequences that the global biodiversity crisis can have for human health and livelihoods. Scientists have long been warning that disturbed ecosystems facilitate the spreading of viruses, that the risk of contagion grows with…

Avoiding too little, too late: debt relief for a green and inclusive recovery

Volz, Ulrich (2021)
External Publications

Nudging with Chinese characteristics: an adapted approach from the Global North to achieve a sustainable future?

Hägele, Ramona (2019)
External Publications

The potential value-added of an Investment Facilitation Framework for Development

Online, 19. January 2021

The event focused on the potential value-added of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development. It is well established that countries seek to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), to advance their economic growth and development. However, since the bulk of any investment facilitation effort is undertaken at the national…

Environment and Transformation

Bonn, 11. July 2019

Climate change, environmental degradation and increasing global divides in income and wealth force development scholarship and development policy makers to think beyond established North-South binaries. They are in demand to address the cumulative environmental, social and political impacts of the Anthropocene in a more just, inclusive…

The world in 2050

Bonn, 29. January 2018

The World in 2050 ( TWI2050 ) seeks to frame the solution space for sustainable development pathways, based on comprehensively achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and sustaining progress to 2050 and beyond within planetary boundaries. To this end TWI2050 is to provide fact-based knowledge to support the policy…

AU-EU cooperation on the Green Transition: What role for cooperation on energy transition?

Online, 09. September 2020

Preparations for the AU-EU summit offer an opportunity to give AU-EU cooperation on green transitions a new impetus. On the European side , the European Commission has proposed an ambitious agenda to transform the European Union in a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and to decouple economic growth from resource use. While the Green Deal…

AU-EU cooperation on the Green Transition: What role of a European Green Deal?

Online, 02. September 2020

Preparations for the AU-EU summit offer an opportunity to give AU-EU cooperation on green transitions a new impetus. On the European side , the European Commission has proposed an ambitious agenda to transform the European Union in a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and to decouple economic growth from resource use. While the Green Deal…

Socio-economic impact of and adaptation to extreme heat and cold of farmers in the food bowl of Nepal

Budhathoki, Nanda Kaji / Kerstin K. Zander (2019)
External Publications

The transnationalisation of competing state projects: carbon offsetting and development in Sumatra’s coastal peat swamps

Hein, Jonas / Heiko Faust / Yvonne Kunz / Rina Mardiana (2018)
External Publications

Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Bonn, 23. October 2019

The Global Development Network (GDN) hosted its 19th global development conference on the 23-25 October 2019, to facilitate the research-policy interface in pursuit of the SDGs. The conference also marked GDN's 20th anniversary since its launch at the Global Development Conference in 1999. GDN has kept pace with changes in the development…

Gene editing – A responsible means to assure food security

Bonn, 22. May 2019

Since more than 35 years, genetic manipulation of organisms has been studied scientifically to change characteristics of organisms faster than and sometimes different from what can be reached by traditional ways of breeding. A number of countries, mainly USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and India have rolled out large-scale cultivation of…

The good, the bad and the global: Supporting governance in a world without borders

Berlin, 06. October 2015

GIZ’s biannual sector days on good governance and human rights took place from 6 to 8 October in Berlin. Thematic panel discussions and workshops on 6 and 7 October were organised jointly with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). This year’s theme “Supporting governance in a world without…

Another America, another Europe

Berlin, 31. May 2017

On the occasion of the T20 Summit and the SDSN Leadership Council taking place in Berlin from May 29-31, 2017, SDSN Germany and Friedrich Ebert Foundation organized a lecture and discussion event on “Another America, Another Europe: A Transatlantic Dialogue About Sustainable Development On Two Continents”. Moderated by Ali Aslan (Deutsche…

Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.) (2017)
Books

Education is the Key

Bonn, 16. June 2014

In what kind of world do we want to live? What future do we want for our children? These questions, which are leading the global debate on a new development agenda, were discussed in the international conference “Education is the Key – Towards a Global Post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. It was held on 16 June 2014 in the…

The mobilisation of sub-national revenues is a decisive factor in the realisation of the 2030 Agenda

von Haldenwang, Christian / Armin von Schiller (2016)
Briefing Paper 21/2016

Sub-national units will play an increasing role in the mobilisation of domestic resources for the 2030 agenda. They are also at the forefront in the implementation of the global reform agenda. Consequently, they also contribute to overcoming problems of fragile statehood.