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Die Arktis im Brennpunkt: Klimakatastrophe im Schatten der Geopolitik

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2025)
External Publications

Geopolitisierung schwächt globale Kooperationsprozesse und Engagement gegen die Klimakatastrophe: Die Arktisregionen sind am Schnittpunkt der Krisen besonders betroffen.

NDC-SDG Connections: Data on updated NDC submissions (V2)

Dzebo, Adis / Aparajita Banerjee / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Raphaëlle Beaussart (2025)
Research Data

Killing AGOA softly? The impact of Trump’s tariffs for Sub-Saharan Africa

Britz, Wolfgang / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Tim Vogel (2025)
Policy Brief 9/2025

Trump’s new tariffs effectively end AGOA, exposing some African economies and sectors to serious risks. Our new policy brief unpacks the impacts and outlines how Sub-Saharan Africa and the EU can respond to protect development-friendly trade and foster resilient partnerships.

IDOS at SB 62

Bonn, 16. June 2025

The 62nd sessions (SB 62) take place from June 16 to June 26, 2025, in Bonn, Germany. The mid-year climate conference aims to advance negotiations on critical issues such as adaptation, mitigation, climate finance, and transparency, setting the stage for the upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Key agenda items include finalizing indicators…

Stellenausschreibung: Zwei Tutor*innen Managing Global Governance (MGG) (w/m/divers)

Das Team Wissenskooperation des Programms „Inter- und Transnationale Zusammenarbeit“ sucht für den Zeitraum 23. August - 24. November 2024 zwei Tutor*innen zur Unterstützung der Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy.

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.

Advancing Climate and Health Resilience

Bonn, 17. June 2025

In the margins of the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB62), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Save the Children will host a roundtable discussion. The event will explore practical strategies to…

The Road to COP30

Bonn and online, 18. June 2025

On the occasion of SB62, an event of the Task Force on Linking Adaptive Social Protection and Climate Financing will bring together Parties, climate and social protection experts, multilateral climate funds and CSOs to advance key initiatives that place people-centered climate action at the forefront. It will present latest joint efforts…

Opportunities in regional and global spaces

Johannesburg, 18. June 2025

Session in OTT Conference, “Think Tanks + Impact: Challenging our Understanding of Influence” Policy impact is hard to plan for and measure in the national context of a think tank; it often is an ambiguous process without clear notions of ‘causal relations’. This challenge redoubles when we look at operations in (international) networks…

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.

Institutionalizing Energy Innovations Towards Low-carbon Transformations? – Lessons from the Global South

Bonn, 25. June 2025

Background & Objectives States and non-state actors have pledged countless commitments to tackle climate change. They initiated projects, programs, and innovative approaches to demonstrate what is feasible and necessary to mitigate climate change. Yet, many of these projects struggle to survive and often remain locked-in their niches…

Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.

IDOS @ the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

Seville, Spain, 30. June 2025

From 30 June to 3 July 2025, government representatives will convene in Seville for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). At this event, organised by the United Nations (UN), countries are expected to agree on a new outcome document to succeed the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, adopted in 2015. In the face of…

Research Colloquium on Triangular Cooperation

Online, 15. July 2025

Triangular cooperation brings together partners across the North-South divide to address development-related concerns and strengthen partnerships. Triangular schemes often consist of multilateral bodies and traditional donors supporting (bilateral) South-South cooperation endeavours and have been said to centre on three sets of roles:…