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Can guarantees effectively leverage financing for SMEs in low- and middle-income countries?

Bambe, Bao-We-Wal (2025)
Policy Brief 3/2025

Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Jacqueline Götze / Arne Riedel (2025)
Books

Empowering global water governance: taking the 2023 UN Water Conference outcomes forward to address the current water crises

Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky / Johannes Cullmann / Aditi Mukherji / Olcay Unver / Robert Varady (2025)
External Publications

Trump's comeback in the White House

What changes and upheavals is President Donald Trump making for international cooperation? Possible scenarios, initial assessments and effects on trade, security and multilateral organizations.

Securing a development-friendly US trade policy: the urgent need for an AGOA revamp

Britz, Wolfgang / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Tim Vogel (2025)
Policy Brief 2/2025

As AGOA expiration looms, Sub-Saharan Africa faces uncertainty regarding its US trade. While overall impacts seem mild, some countries and key sectors risk severe losses. This policy brief explores what is at stake and outlines reforms to modernise AGOA to foster Africa’s sustainable future.

International development cooperation is in Germany’s national interest

Furness, Mark (2025)
The Current Column, 27. January 2025

Germany’s international cooperation is as important for its own continued development, as it is for the countries where Germany invests public money.

Another setback for multilateral environmental and resource protection

Brüntrup, Michael (2025)
External Publications

Progress in combating desertification has been dealt a blow, with UNCCD negotiating parties failing to reach an agreement last December. The author stresses the importance of addressing the issue of desertification and points to the challenges it is posing particularly for countries in the Global South.

For liberal values, planetary interests and a common future

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2025)
The Current Column, 21. January 2025

Targeted measures to expand partnerships are needed all the more urgently – not ‘despite everything’ but in fact now more than ever.

Metropolen unterm Meeresspiegel: Warum Küstenstädte absinken (Radiobeitrag von Gabi Schlag und Benno Wenz in der Sendung "Das Wissen" von SWR Kultur mit Anna-Katharina Hornidge)

Schlag, Gabi / Benno Wenz / Hornidge, Anna-Katharina et al. (2025)
External Publications

Dispossession in the Name of Climate Change?

Mudimu, George T. / Fadzai Chipato (2025)
External Publications

Policy mixes for sustainable development pathways: representation in integrated assessment models

Dombrowsky, Ines / Gabriela Ileana Iacobuţă / Vassilis Daioglou / Dorothee Keppler / Bjoern Soergel / Isabelle Weindl / Elmar Kriegler (2024)
External Publications

Managing Global Governance (MGG)

The Managing Global Governance (MGG) network brings together governmental institutions, think tanks and research institutions as well as civil society and business organizations

Cluster “Norms, standards and conceptual foundations”

How and through which decision-making processes are norms and standards developed in inter- and transnational cooperation?

The daily show’s climate change content: two decades of Late-Night science communication

Gehrke, Charlotte (2024)
External Publications

Weather-related disasters and inflation in the euro area

Beirne, John / Yannis Dafermos / Alexander Kriwoluzky / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz / Jana Wittich (2024)
External Publications

UNCCD COP 16: another setback for multilateral environmental and resource protection

Brüntrup, Michael (2024)
External Publications

“Climate migration” as a political challenge: time to take stock of the actors and activities

Schraven, Benjamin / Jamie Slater (2024)
The Current Column, 16. December 2024

The general political mission is to promote the positive potential of migration as an adaptation strategy and to minimise dangers and risks such as forced displacement as best as possible, for example through prevention measures.

Data repository: climate futures are political futures: integrating political development into the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs)

Leininger, Julia / Buhaug, Halvard / Gilmore, Elisabeth / [...] / Christoph Wingens / [...] / Constantin Ruhe et al. (2024)
Research Data

Coastal adaptation – for whom and to what? Zooming in on eroding sands and the livelihoods of artisanal fishers in India

Schüpf, Dennis / Nithya Kuppusami / E. Lisa F. Schipper (2024)
Policy Brief 34/2024

As beaches erode, fishers' livelihoods are at stake. This policy brief explores the trade-offs between climate resilience and coastal development in India. It highlights the importance of integrating sand governance to avoid maladaptation to climate change.