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New publication on the new European Union's Global Role provides crucial insights for incoming EU leadership

Press Release of 18 September 2024: New publication "The European Union's Global Role in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities for the New Leadership" provides crucial insights for incoming EU leadership.

Vor dem Zukunftsgipfel der Vereinten Nationen

Online, 20. September 2024

Am 22. und 23. September 2024 fand bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York der Zukunftsgipfel ( Summit of the Future ) statt. An ihn waren hohe Erwartungen geknüpft. Angesichts verschärfter geopolitischer Konfrontationen sollen die multilaterale Kooperation auf Weltebene wiederbelebt und die Vereinten Nationen fit für die Zukunft gemacht…

Integrative approaches to the environmental and socio-economic SDGs

Iacobuţă , Gabriela Ileana / Heleen van Soest / Subhes Bhattacharyya (2024)
External Publications

Shaping equitable partnerships in international collaborative research

Flaig, Merlin / Detlef Müller-Mahn (2024)
The Current Column, 23. September 2024

Equitable partnerships must be established as standard requirement for international collaborative research and for applications for international funding lines.

Financing international development organizations in an age of disorder

Online, 25. September 2024

The contemporary international landscape, characterized by geopolitical shifts, economic turbulence, and the intensifying impacts of climate change, presents unprecedented challenges to international development organizations (IDOs). Traditional donor nations have historically been the primary financial pillars supporting IDOs. However,…

From the Summit of the Future to the Hamburg Sustainability Conference

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2024)
The Current Column, 30. September 2024

It is important to mobilise social and political majorities for global structural transformation in pursuit of climate stabilisation and sustainable futures.

Inter- and Transnational Cooperation

The research department "Inter- and transnational cooperation" is based on the premise that the nation states can best assert their interests by creating formal international institutions. This results in three closely interwoven dimensions.

Knowledge cooperation & training

The interest of the Knowledge Co-operation & Training department is focussed on the role of knowledge co-operation and the design of the science-policy interface

T20 Africa

T20 Africa works on topics related to economic, social and political change in Africa and the global economy. The network will generate cross-regional knowledge production and evidence-based policy recommendations on cooperation between the G20 and Africa.

New forms of International partnerships to reduce negative spillover effects in support of global sustainability

Berger, Axel / Grayson Fuller/ Jorge Gómez-Paredes / Sarah Löpelt / Tabea Waltenberg (2024)
External Publications

IDOS@HSC

Hamburg, 07. October 2024

The HSC is a new conference format aimed at fostering the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the HSC, leading minds from politics, business, science and civil society plan the implementation of joint processes to achieve the SDGs. In times of increasing geopolitical crises, the HSC promotes multilateral…

The EU's support to democracy: recognising the democratising potential of the EU's foreign policy agenda

Vandeputte, Nathan / Fabienne Bossuyt / Niels Keijzer / Christine Hackenesch / Evelyn Mantoiu / Danio Di Mauro / Christopher Wingens / Stefania Panebianco / Julia Leininger (2024)
External Publications

Global Environmental Governance and (Sub-)national Transformation Strategies

Researchers at IDOS investigate interactions between actors and institutions of global environmental governance and transformative strategies of transnational, national and local actors.

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.

De jure and de facto inclusivity in global governance

Taggart, Jack / Sebastian Haug (2024)
External Publications

Germany’s new Arctic guidelines: a case for knowledge diversification

Gehrke, Charlotte / Dorothea Wehrmann (2024)
The Current Column, 14. October 2024

We need to move beyond gathering data on the effects of climate change in the Arctic regions to tackle the crisis of slow-moving political action.

Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED)

GTED is the first global database that brings together available data on tax expenditures. The GTED is a collaborative project of IDOS and CEP.

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…

Towards a green H2 economy: Algeria Country Report

Aboushady, Nora / Ines Jaroudi (2024)
External Publications

Private sector mobilisation: turning a pipe dream into reality

Zattler, Jürgen K. (2024)
Discussion Paper 14/2024

Achieving the SDGs will necessitate unprecedented levels of private investment, particularly in developing countries. This paper builds on existing proposals and outlines how shareholders can take these forward in the boardrooms of national and, in particular, international development banks.