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Europe's Double Standards in the Face of International Law

El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025)
The Current Column, 24. June 2025

Rather than affirming violations of international law, Germany should end arms sales that fuel ongoing wars.

Yvonne Kunz

Yvonne Kunz ist Geographin und ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Forschungsprogramms "Umwelt-Governance und Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit " am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Human mobility in the context of LFDD in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of national climate and desertification policies

Serraglio, Diogo Andreola / Mariya Aleksandrova / Benjamin Schraven (2021)
External Publications

Moderating digital communities in hybrid governance contexts: refugees' digital inclusion and communication in Nairobi

Martin-Shields, Charles (2024)
External Publications

Zu’ming to victory

Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth (2009)

Climate (im)mobility in urban contexts: from recognition to action

Ekoh, Susan S. (2023)
Policy Brief 15/2023

This policy brief presents gaps and challenges involved in addressing climate change and human mobility in cities. Although actors recognize the nexus of climate change and human mobility and the urban dimensions, efforts to address this is far from what it should be.

2030 Agenda Sustainable Development

Special "2030 agenda": DIE is participating in important discussions drawing from its wide-ranging expertise in development and environmental policy.

2012

2012 Jump to: Archive 2012 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2012 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep . Oct. Nov. Dec. December A Hand Up Subsidies have long served as a safety net for needy Egyptians, but they are also inefficient, wasteful and expensive. Now the government is working to come up with a better social welfare system, one that encourages the poor to participate in Egypt’s economic…

The Nexus Water - Energy - Land - Climate

Special „The Nexus Water - Energy - Land - Climate“: This topic special presents relevant works and activities on which incentives, governance mechanism and policy instruments could reduce negative effects and stimulate win-win solutions.

Development Finance at a turning point

Against the backdrop of significant financing gaps for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the multiple crises of our time - climate crisis, debt crisis and increasing geopolitical tensions - the international financial system is facing a variety of challenges. In this context, the IDOS finance team is conducting research and providing policy advice on the question of how a resilient and sustainable international financial system should be designed to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and prevent crises.

East Asia

Regional expertise on East Asia: This page brings together thematic work of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) for the East Asian region. You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects as well as contact information to the Institute’s researchers with specific regional expertise.

Why it is worth to support and protect democracy worldwide

Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.

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.

Strategic facilitation of complex decision-making: how process and context matter in global climate change negotiations

Hernandez, Ariel (2014)
Books

Mind the Gap? Sketching the relevance of the 2030 Agenda for the Green Deal and other key EU policies in the context of the COVID-19 crisis

Hackenesch, Christine / Maximilian Högl / Julian Bergmann / Janina, Sturm / Damien Barchiche / Adolf Kloke-Lesch (2021)
External Publications

Development cooperation in the context of contested global governance

Chaturvedi, Sachin / Heiner Janus / Stephan Klingebiel / Li Xiaoyun / André de Mello e Souza / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos / Dorothea Wehrmann (2020)
External Publications

Green Economy

Researchers at the IDOS are investigating instruments of ecological structural policy and global regulatory frameworks that support corresponding transformation processes.

Ocean and Polar Regions in inter- and transnational cooperation

Special "Ocean and Polar Regions in inter- and transnational cooperation": Our experts investigate how the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda can succeed in marine areas for humanity at large.

Non-economic loss and damage in the context of climate change: understanding the challenges

Serdeczny, Olivia / Eleanor Waters / Sander Chan (2016)
Discussion Paper 3/2016

The concept of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) groups the impacts of climate change that are hard to measure or quantify. This paper outlines the main characteristics of NELD and the specific challenges they pose to research and policy-making at the national and international level.

Just energy transition partnerships in the context of Africa-Europe relations: reflections from South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal

Hege, Elisabeth / Chukwumerije Okereke, / Sébastian Treyer / Youba Sokona / Youba Kingiri / Niels Keijzer / Fatima Denton (2022)
External Publications