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Press release: Connect climate action to sustainable development

Press release of 5 Juli 2023: Connect climate action to sustainable development to get the world on track for global goal attainment

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Asian and Pacific Economies Will Benefit

Online, 19. May 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Arab Economies Will Benefit

Online, 01. June 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit

Online, 10. May 2022

This ‘High-Level Regional Roundtable on Investment Facilitation for Development: How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit’ is co-organised by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Commission of the Organisation of…

How can the G7 and the UN make multilateralism sustainable?

Weinlich, Silke / Marianne Beisheim (2022)
The Current Column, 14. February 2022

How could the German G7 Presidency and the UN Secretary-General leverage their objectives to each other’s benefit?

How Germany’s 2022 G7 Presidency could shape change

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2021)
The Current Column, 15. November 2021

The German G7 Presidency should coordinate closely with France, Italy and the EU to place the focus on assuming responsibility for the global common good and strengthening cooperation within the UN and G20 frameworks.

Six transformations to create the world we want

The World in 2050 (TWI2050) initiative has launched a new report, setting out six key transformations that will enable the world to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Who wants to follow? British leadership claims hamper international cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan (2013)
The Current Column, 18. March 2013

Conference of the Parties (COP 21)

Paris, 30. November 2015

From 30 November to 11 December, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Paris. A new global agreement on climate change is to be adopted. This agreement will be decisive for future life on our planet. Climate change…

Does aid stand on the edge of chaos?

Janus, Heiner/Sebastian Paulo (2013)
The Current Column, 25. November 2013

Aid is a polarising issue. Critics warn that development assistance does more harm than good, while proponents maintain that aid saves lives.

The Czech EU Presidency and the World: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?

Horky, Ondrej (2009)

Are there universal values?

Lätt, Jeanne (2010)
The Current Column, 08. November 2010

The famine in East Africa: how far are climate change and the long neglect of agriculture to blame?

Kaplan, Marcus / Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (2011)
The Current Column, 22. August 2011

Style and Substance for the G20 Summit

Cooper, Andrew F. / Eric Helleiner (2008)
The Current Column, 10. November 2008

A European investment treaty with China: limited effect, but global significance

Berger, Axel (2013)
The Current Column, 07. October 2013

US development policy: a strong player back on the map

Wolff, Peter (2010)
The Current Column, 01. February 2010

G20: Wirtschaft und Soziales gemeinsam denken

G20: Wirtschaft und Soziales gemeinsam denken G20: Wirtschaft und Soziales gemeinsam denken Press Release of 4 July 2017 Today in Berlin, the Co-Chairs of the Think 20 group of think tanks called on the leaders of the G20 countries to expand their agenda of economic growth and macroeconomic stability to include a greater focus on social needs as well as environmental and climate protection. They also urged the summit to send a clear signal that global issues would…

UN Climate Change Conference is imminent after Germany’s federal elections

Bauer, Steffen (2021)
The Current Column, 06. September 2021

Among other things, COP26 is intended to reconcile short- and long-term goals and measures and to find answers to the remaining questions surrounding the negotiation of market mechanisms in climate policy.

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.

Developmental States in Africa: What prospects and whose interests?

Bonn, 28. April 2009

(as part of the DIE's Development Cooperation with Africa Working Group) Minutes of the conference "Developmental States in Africa: What prospects and whose interests?” Most African states have not been able to achieve impressive growth and development over the last decades – at a time when Asia experienced rapid growth and successes in…