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Dr. Sander Chan

Associate Researcher

Environmental Governance

Paul Hagenström

Researcher

Environmental Governance

Dr. Johanna Vogel

Senior Researcher

Sarah Löpelt

Researcher Science Platform Sustainability 2030 (wpn2030) & SDSN Germany

(How) does social protection promote climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Bonn, 26. November 2025

The deadline for applications has been extended to 21 May Social protection is crucial for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In times of rising inequalities and poverty rates, social protection must continue addressing life cycle risks to prevent individuals from falling further into poverty while also aiding those…

Making Aid Work

Online, 20. November 2025

Development aid is increasingly under criticism for failing to achieve its objectives. The question, however, is how its effectiveness is measured. In many parts of the world, development aid pursues a whole range of goals that are incompatible with one another. This is particularly true in the Middle East and North Africa, where the…

Critical Social Science Perspectives on Coastal Erosion for Transformative Adaptation

Kiel Marine Science Campus, 19. November 2025

Coastal erosion is not merely a physical process, but a deeply socio-political and ecological phenomenon that is gaining urgency in the context of climate change. Focusing on critical social science dimensions of coastal erosion and adaptation, this workshop brings together different perspectives from Human Geography, and Science and…

Klimapolitik in der Defensive: Was kann die COP30 in Brasilien leisten?

Online, 06. November 2025

Die UN-Klimakonferenz 2025 (COP30), die vom 10. bis zum 21. November in Belém, Brasilien, stattfindet, muss die internationale Klimapolitik entgegen geopolitischer und nationaler Trends auf Kurs halten und die Umsetzung des Pariser Abkommens voranbringen. Dies ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für fortgesetzte internationale Zusammenarbeit…

Mobilising and scaling up local climate action

São Paulo, 29. October 2025

The international roundtable gathered experts from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to discuss how local climate action can be scaled up and how national and international actors can support this process. Local actors play a decisive role in advancing climate action. Cities, municipalities, districts and other sub-national levels…

Mobilising and scaling up local climate action

São Paulo, 29. October 2025

The international roundtable gathered experts from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to discuss how local climate action can be scaled up and how national and international actors can support this process. Local actors play a decisive role in advancing climate action. Cities, municipalities, districts and other sub-national levels…

Industrial decarbonization and hydrogen

Potsdam, 28. October 2025

The industrial sector accounts for a quarter of global direct CO 2 emissions. Hard-to-abate heavy industries, such as steel, chemical, cement and aluminium, account for the bulk of these emissions. Decarbonizing them is essential to cope with global warming, but also challenging due to the need to coordinate upstream and downstream…

Beyond aid: a new vision for the UN development function

Browne, Stephen / Frederik Matthys / Detlef Palm / Max-Otto Baumann (2025)
Discussion Paper 32/2025

This paper argues for a new vision of the UN’s development function. Departing from its historical role as an aid channel predicated on the North-South divide, the UN should build on leveraging its universal legitimacy, normative authority and convening power.

Aid cuts and the diaspora: strengthening partnerships to bridge the gap

Muhumad, Abdirahman A. (2025)
Policy Brief 23/2025

Aid cuts threaten vulnerable communities in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. The diaspora plays a crucial role in filling gaps through emergency relief and dev't support. This PB explores how understanding diaspora networks,strengthening collaborations and creating supportive frameworks can bridge the gap.

Ten years after Paris implementation is lagging far behind

Bauer, Steffen / Fariborz Zelli (2025)
The Current Column, 20. October 2025

In many ways the Paris Agreement is exemplary for an array of fundamental problems that plague global environmental diplomacy today.

International cooperation policy for sustainability transformations in disruptive times

Berger, Axel / Priyadarshi Dash / Paula von Haaren / Lena-Marie Putz / André de Mello e Souza (2025)
Policy Brief 22/2025

As global disruptions and power dynamics are reshaping aid and trade, how can low- and middle-income countries build resilience and new alliances? This policy brief explores how disruption can trigger new forms of cooperation.

Rural women deserve more than celebration

Reich, Charlotte / Aiveen Donnelly / Katharina Molitor (2025)
The Current Column, 14. October 2025

Despite progress, our current data systems often fail to capture the diversity of women’s realities.

From Climate Negotiations to Resilient Health Systems

Berlin, 14. October 2025

This high-level event aims to explore the critical role of international climate policies in building climate-resilient health systems on national and local level. Taking place at a strategically important time, immediately before the COP30 negotiations, the event will examine how new policies can strengthen and protect the most…

Wie Chinas KP diskret den Diskurs beeinflusst

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Bader (2025)
External Publications

The impact of global governance networks on social innovation for sustainable development: linking setup, enablers and cooperation results of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network

Vogel, Johanna / Wulf Reiners (2025)
Discussion Paper 31/2025

How can networks translate collaboration into systemic change for sustainable development? This discussion paper shows that global governance networks can drive social innovation when we invest in the composition of members, cooperation infrastructure and culture.

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha is a Senior Researcher in the research programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability" at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).