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The UN post-2015 agenda: How Europe and China can take the lead

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (2014)
The Current Column, 12. September 2014

Starting this week, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will engage in negotiations over the post-2015 agenda for global development. The European Union and China are likely candidates for a pro-active stance at the United Nations.

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.

The ability of political science to predict future developments

Faust, Jörg (2011)
The Current Column, 04. July 2011

United for the Planet

Cali, Baku, Riyadh, 21. October 2024

The 2024 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the three Rio Conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - are set to play a crucial role in addressing the ever-deepening…

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.

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez is an Economist and Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

Governance of natural resources for the common good

Cluster "Governance of natural resources for the common good": Natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity provide the basis for human existence. On a global scale, we are seeing the rapidly advancing overuse and degradation of natural resources.

Corona and development cooperation

Special "The Corona Virus and international development cooperation": Experts from IDOS explore the developmental and socioeconomic consequences of the corona crisis.

Financing sustainable development: insights from Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, and Senegal

Barchiche, Damien / Elise Dufief / Niels Keijzer / Yvonne Lobos Alva / Georghe Marbuah (2023)
External Publications

Meaningful Involvement of Regional and District Governments

IDOS, Bonn & Online, 27. February 2023

In 2017, Ethiopia initiated a policy shift aimed at phasing out the purely camp-based approach to refugee response in the country. Following this decision, the country has become one of the implementing countries of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), a comprehensive set of commitments that provides the framework for a…

Trade and climate change: how to design better climate-related provisions in preferential trade agreements

Brandi, Clara / Kateryna Holzer / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Harro van Asselt / Katharina Weber (2023)
Policy Brief 21/2023

Given the urgency of the climate crisis, using the toolbox of trade policies to help tackle climate change should be a priority. The Trade Day at COP28 also underlines the growing interest in trade and climate interlinkages.

The future of the EU as a global development actor

Berlin, 10. May 2023

Today’s polycrisis world challenges the European Union to adapt to a reshaped geopolitical order and identify the partners with which it can jointly engage. Development policy plays an increasingly supporting role in this repositioning of the EU and its related economic, foreign policy and geopolitical interests, which is also reflected…

Addressing human mobility in national climate policy: insights from updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in South America

Serraglio, Diogo Andreola / Benjamin Schraven / Natalia Burgos Cuevas (2022)
Briefing Paper 4/2022

Given the urgent need to move forward from the recognition of the human mobility - climate change nexus to the establishment of effective measures to tackle the topic, the updating of NDCs entails an opportunity to incorporate strategies that can better address population movements in this context.

Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all

Bangura, Ibrahim / Ananya Chakraborty / Ana Garcia-Hernandez / Lennart Kaplan / Jana Kuhnt et al. (2022)
External Publications

Promoting New Ways of Knowledge Production and Policy Transfer

Online, 15. September 2022

In recent years, both the cooperation project Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT) and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) have been actively building strong international networks consisting of Southern and Northern, Eastern and Western academic experts with and without lived…

Drought, COVID, and Multi-risk Assessment

Online, 02. February 2022

Droughts cause deep and multi-faceted damages to ecosystems, (agro) economies and societies, particularly to vulnerable populations, namely in rural areas worldwide. The global climate crisis, fueled and exacerbated by man-made changes, and the weakening of ecological functions increases the severity of drought events. Droughts are only…

Climate mainstreaming in environmental treaties

Olivier, Annabelle / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2025)
Policy Brief 17/2025

How to identify national dimensions of poverty? The constitutional approach

Burchi, Francesco / Pasquale De Muro / Eszter Kollar (2018)
Briefing Paper 5/2018

Which are the specific forms of poverty a country should focus on? This Briefing Paper suggests using the Constitutional Approach, recently developed by DIE researchers with international scholars, to identify priority poverty targets based on norm-governed national institutions.

Sustainability as a Guiding Principle of Our Work

Our vision is to contribute to co-shaping a collaborative, multipolar world for sustainable futures. We do so by conducting high-quality research, independent policy advice, and transregional knowledge cooperation and training.

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: student / research assistant (f/m/diverse) “Civil Society and Civic Space in Asia”

To strengthen our project “Civil Society and Civic Space in Asia”, we are looking with an immediate starting date and limited until 31.08.2025 student / research assistant