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A rights-based approach for implementing the European Green Deal

Nystø Keskitalo Anja Márjá / Jacqueline Götze (2023)
The Current Column, 06. February 2023

The green transition entails questions of justice – in the European Arctic and beyond. Why a rights-based approach is needed to implement sustainable policies.

Why we need to talk more about “climate migration” in Latin America

Serraglio, Diogo / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
The Current Column, 06. September 2019

When it comes to the issue of climate migration, most people tend to think of regions of Africa or Pacific island nations. However, disregarding Latin America in this context would be a mistake.

Results-based aid: potential and limits of an innovative modality in development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Heiner Janus (2014)
External Publications

Green economy: a promise or a real opportunity for sustainable development?

Scholz, Imme (2012)
The Current Column, 29. May 2012

The global economy is to become greener and fairer with a green economy. Yet the approach is controversial, not least because many developing countries are afraid that an ecological transformation of the economy will mask protectionist restrictions of international trade.

Addressing human mobility in national climate policy: insights from updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in South America

Serraglio, Diogo Andreola / Benjamin Schraven / Natalia Burgos Cuevas (2022)
Briefing Paper 4/2022

Given the urgent need to move forward from the recognition of the human mobility - climate change nexus to the establishment of effective measures to tackle the topic, the updating of NDCs entails an opportunity to incorporate strategies that can better address population movements in this context.

Overcoming coordination gaps between water, energy and agriculture: future paths to water protection in Weser-Ems

Meergans, Franziska / Christina Aue / Christian Knieper / Sascha Kochendörfer / Andrea Lenschow / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 25/2020

Intensive agriculture is characteristic for the region of Weser-Ems and the major source of nitrate pollution in groundwater. The analysis of coordination and cooperation shows that incoherent policies in the water, (bio)energy and agricultural sector have exacerbated the problem situation at hand.

Restoring the Zayandeh Rud River: addressing the political causes of water shortage in Iran

Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 19/2020

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Transcultural constructions of global legitimacy

Bonn, 25. July 2013

Jan-Aart Scholte eröffnete dieses Jahr die Managing Global Governance (MGG) Public Lectures. Er ist Professor am Department of Politics and International Studies der University of Warwick, Professorial Research Fellow am Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation sowie akademischer Leiter des Global Research Priorities in…

Still in its infancy: UN country-level support for South-South Cooperation in middle income countries

Haug, Sebastian (2016)
External Publications

The G20 Summit Was More Successful than You Think

Messner, Dirk / Dennis Snower (2018)
External Publications

Reimagining Cooperation on Trade and Sustainability

, 26. May 2025

The Future of World Trade

Special "Future of the World Trade System": The world trade system is in a phase of upheaval and uncertainty. Against this background, the trade experts at DIE analyse the effectiveness, legitimacy and sustainability of the international trading system.

How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation

Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2023)
External Publications

African-European Relations (Vol. 19)

Erforth, Benedikt / Keijzer, Niels (2023)
External Publications

From individual to systemic impact: transnational networks and the meso-level of change

Lynders, Eva (2024)
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South-South Cooperation and Triangular Programmes: Towards a New Paradigm in Global Development?

Bonn, 10. August 2010

Die internationale Entwicklungspolitik befindet sich in einer Phase des Umbruchs. Neben den traditionellen Gebern, die im Entwicklungsausschuss (DAC) der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) zusammengeschlossen sind, treten zunehmend Anker- und Schwellenländer als „neue“ Geber in Erscheinung. Diese…

Do you know about the taxes your government does NOT collect?

von Haldenwang, Christian / Agustín Redonda (2020)
The Current Column, 20. January 2020

All over the world, governments are desperately looking for funding to fund social policy, public infrastructure, and development projects. But the same governments regularly waive significant tax revenue.

Challenging the narrative: How policy choices empower the far-right

Abedtalas, Musallam (2024)
The Current Column, 18. November 2024

By shifting the debate into the AfD’s core narrative of stricter immigration policies—the ruling coalition inadvertently strengthens the far-right.

Grey areas instead of polarisation on the Middle East war

Houdret, Annabelle (2023)
The Current Column, 08. November 2023

Being aware of our history means never marginalising based on religion, ethnicity, gender and other markers of social identification.

Economic Partnership Agreements: Time is running out

Brandi, Clara / Dominique Bruhn (2014)
The Current Column, 29. September 2014

1 October 2014 is the deadline for the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and a group of states in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP states). If the agreements are not signed by that date, African countries will fear a deterioration in their conditions for exporting to the EU.