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Accelerate the Scaling up of effective peer-to-peer partnerships between Water Operators Worldwide

Online, 19. October 2021

The 4th Global WOPs Congress is around the corner! From 18 to 29 October, the #WOPsCongress will feature more than 30 sessions and spaces to spur exchange, learning, and collaboration on topics relevant to water and sanitation operators across the globe and inspire actions on pressing matters such as climate adaptation in the water and…

Why the new global biodiversity targets should embrace rights-based conservation

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2021)
The Current Column, 11. October 2021

From October 11 to 15, 2021 and from April 25 to May 8, 2022, the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be held in Kunming, China. The conference will bring together countries worldwide to agree on the global post-2020 biodiversity Framework (GBF).

Water governance and policies

Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Ines Dombrowsky / Naho Mirumachi (2021)
External Publications

It’s about water!

Online, 07. October 2021

Climate change impacts cities in manifold ways and often affects water resources: floods and other natural hazards damage urban infrastructure, drinking water quality can deteriorate, and pressure on surrounding water-based ecosystems can increase. The Bonn Water Network (BWN) invites you to its session at the Daring Cities Conference…

Mechanisms for governing the Water-Land-Food Nexus in the Lower Awash River Basin, Ethiopia: ensuring policy coherence in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Anita Breuer / Waltina Scheumann (2021)
Discussion Paper 26/2021

Are the governance mechanisms for land and water in Ethiopia effective in managing the WEF nexus interdependencies? We assess the conditions that affect coordination for policy coherence in achieving the 2030 Agenda.

The Governance Challenge of Integrated SDG Implementation

Online, 27. September 2021

With the 2030 Agenda, the international community has established an ambitious, interlinked goal system for a global sustainability transformation. The successful implementation of the Agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires that the complex interactions between the SDGs and their targets are taken into account. This…

Press release: Study shows importance of developing and emerging countries for successful international climate policy

A new study by DIE and NewClimate Institute shows how international cooperation can contribute to implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement worldwide.

Working together to achieve the Paris climate goals and sustainable development

Online, 20. September 2021

Whether the global climate can be stabilised at a warming of 1.5°C depends on whether the goals and measures of climate policy by 2030 are sufficiently ambitious. Failure to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement would ultimately undermine the achievement of just and sustainable global development that leaves no one behind.…

Promoting civil society engagement in Afghanistan

Schetter, Conrad / Bernhard Trautner (2021)
The Current Column, 13. September 2021

In addition to addressing the extent and cause of the debacle in Afghanistan, the new German Government must urgently consider how to set a new course to prevent further destabilisation of the country.

Water and Mining

Schoderer, Mirja / Jampel Dell'Angelo / Dave Huitema (2021)
External Publications

An individual-based index of multidimensional poverty for low- and middle-income countries

Burchi, Francesco / José Espinoza-Delgado / Claudio E. Montenegro / Nicole Rippin (2021)
External Publications

A diagnostic approach improves Integrated Water Resource Management

Mit vielfältigen Aktivitäten, leistet das DIE einen Beitrag zu Forschung und Politikberatung über Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management.

The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia

Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Tilo Schöne / Johannes Herbeck / Julia Illigner / Mahmud Haghighi / Hendricus Simarmata / Emma Porio / Alessio Rovere / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
External Publications

Uzbekistan – a region of world society? Variants of differentiation in agricultural resources governance

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Kristof van Assche / Anastasiya Shtaltovna (2018)
External Publications

Need for improved governance of marine protected areas

Lehmann, Ina (2021)
The Current Column, 07. June 2021

In order to strengthen the knowledge base for ocean protection, the United Nations launched the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development on June 1. This knowledge should inter alia inform existing international frameworks for protecting the ocean.

UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems

Online, 18. May 2021

A key challenge for sustainable water management and thus sustainable development as a whole is the complexity of human-water-systems. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and the targeted processing of research results are central for a better understanding and sustainable implementation of knowledge. This is where the new UNESCO…

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia

Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
External Publications

Filling and Operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – A Way Out

Online, 04. May 2021

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has a concrete volume of 10.5 million m3, making it the largest dam —per volume— in Africa. The dam supposed to be a hydropower dam necessary for the Ethiopian economy. The filling and operation of this gigantic dam, which has a 74-billion-cubic-meter reservoir that can theoretically store as…

Murky trade waters: regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa

Stender, Frederik / Tim Vogel (2021)
Discussion Paper 13/2021

Regional tariff commitments have successfully reduced intra-African applied tariffs but they also sharply reduced the tariff policy space within Africa. Has this come at the expense of the prevalence of non-tariff measures? What are the implications for the AfCFTA?

Come on, into the “Green Twenties”!

Bauer, Steffen (2021)
The Current Column, 19. April 2021

“Restore Our Earth!” is the theme and rallying cry for this year’s Earth Day on 22 April. This is not something that can be achieved on a single day.