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Rising powers in UN development funding: growing responsibilities, growing engagement?

Grimm, Sven / Zhang Chun (2017)
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Socio-political and administrative determinants of municipal revenue performance: insights from Mozambique

Bunk, Saida / Salvador Forquilha / Dominique Klawonn / Jonathan Krull / Alina Sennewald / Conrad Steinhilber / Juliane von Boeselager / Armin von Schiller (2017)
Briefing Paper 14/2017

Mobilisation of municipal revenue is a relevant topic for development from a fiscal point of view but also from a broader governance perspective. This paper presents the results of a study focusing on how administrative and socio-political factors affect municipal revenue performance in Mozambique.

Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals

Bonn, 19. September 2017

Implementation of the SDGs is being carried out in most countries, however with variable intensity. Often, interdependencies and trade-offs between SDGs are not or only insufficiently observed in research and the supporting policy process. A key role for agricultural production is given to SDG 2 on combating hunger, but agriculture has…

Turning an idea into reality: creating the European Institute of Peace

Bergmann, Julian (2018)
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When ‘unintended effects’ reveal hidden intentions: implications of ‘mutual benefit’ discourses for evaluating development cooperation

Keijzer, Niels / Erik Lundsgaarde (2017)
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Urban governance of forced displacement: premises, requirements and challenges in the light of new humanitarian trends

Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2017)
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Governing the nexus between water, energy and food: instruments, incentives and mechanisms

Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann / Babette Never (2016)
Two Pager 1/2016

Effective nexus governance uses a practicable and socially acceptable combination of instruments to reduce negative intersectoral effects.

Cooperative agreements between the water and the agricultural sector

Richerzhagen, Carmen / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
Two Pager 3/2016

Voluntary drinking water partnerships provide a good alternative to regulatory requirements. Sustainable financing models and opportunities for participation are the basic building blocks of drinking water partnerships.

Regional organisations promote nexus governance for hydropower along international rivers

Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
Two Pager 6/2016

Regional organisations contribute to nexus governance by supporting the application of international legal principles and international environmental and social standards.

Identifying future growth potentials: a consolidated approach

Altenburg, Tilman / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2017)
Briefing Paper 15/2017

How can policynmakers anticipate future growth opportunities? We asssess various methodologies and highlight the to need to combine quantitative tools with qualitative techniques that allow to account for the possibility of disruptive structural change as well as societal preferences.

Environmental provisions in trade agreements: promises at the trade and environment interface

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Dominique Bruhn (2017)
Briefing Paper 16/2017

This paper provides new research insights and input for policy discussions at the interface of international trade and the environment.

Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) Forum

Geneva, 25. September 2017

The Trade for Sustainable Development Forum brings together business people, researchers, standards organizations and international trade officials to discuss trends in sustainable value chains and voluntary sustainability standards. Two sessions will focus on the specific challenges and opportunities faced by small and medium-sized…

Non-State actors in Arctic Council governance

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2017)
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Mapping giant honey bee nests in Palawan, Philippines through a transdisciplinary approach

Matias, Denise Margaret / Till Stellmacher / Christian Borgemeister / Jun G. Cayron / Henrik von Wehrden (2017)
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From the G20 Hamburg Summit to MC11 in Buenos Aires

Geneva, 27. September 2017

The G20 is a unique international platform that can overcome policy silo mentalities and bridge trade policy and other public policy objectives such as sustainable and inclusive growth. Often these broader objectives are neglected in trade policy debates. In fact, trade policy has emerged as one of the most contested policy fields during…

Unveiling the environmental reality of trade agreements

Geneva, 27. September 2017

Trade agreements no longer just aim at eliminating tariffs but deal with many non-economic issues such as the environment. A majority of 85% of all trade agreements already covers various environmental dimensions. While the increasing uptake of environmental rules in trade agreements is well-acknowledged, we lack a deep understanding of…

Global Environmental Politics

Bonn, 28. September 2017

Johannes Urpelainen, the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment and the Founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, DC), is presenting his new book on Global Environmental Politics in the Twenty-First…

Democratization via aid? The European Union’s democracy promotion in the Western Balkans 1994–2010

Grimm, Sonja / Okka Lou Mathis (2017)
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Trade and the Environment

Bonn, 29. September 2017

The interplay between trade and the environment is one of the most puzzling institutional interactions at the international level. While one might wrongly presume that these two sets of institutions are in frequent opposition as each have adverse consequences for the other, they often seem to co-evolve in the international system with…

Trade & Environment: Interactive online tool

Brussels, 02. Oktober 2017

Many trade agreements devote an entire chapter to environmental protection. Some of their environmental clauses are even more specific and restrictive than those of multilateral environmental agreements. At the same time, trade agreements are often criticized for their harmful effects on the environment. While the interplay between trade…