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Decarbonising lifestyles, scaling up behavioural innovations

Online, 06. Mai 2022

Even with better incentives and faster green tech innovation, deep decarbonisation is almost impossible to achieve as long as carbon-intensive lifestyles prevail; and even more so, when rising purchasing power increases and consuming middle classes expand at the scale witnessed in the past two to three decades. Since efficiency…

Green hydrogen: opportunities for industrial development through forward linkages from renewables. Global Supply Chains blog

Altenburg, Tilman / Manuel Albaladejo / Smeeta Fokeer / Nele Wenck (2022)
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Assessing policy reform and capacity building needs to implement a future WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement

Geneva, 05. Mai 2022

More than 110 World Trade Organization (WTO) Members are currently negotiating an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement with the aim of finalising the negotiations by the end of 2022. Empirical research estimates that the IFD Agreement benefits participating Members, in particular developing and least-developed…

Directional predictability and time-frequency spillovers among clean energy sectors and oil price uncertainty

Urom, Cristian / Hela Mzoughi / Gideon Ndubuisi / Khaled Guesmi (2022)
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Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World

Online, 27. April 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of planetary health – a framework that recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health – in a world marred by the climate change and biodiversity crises, as well as growing inequalities between and within countries. With the WHO’s calls for vaccine equity…

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…

Social Cohesion in Africa: Where do we stand? Where are we heading to?

Online, 26. April 2022

This is the third event of the Social Cohesion Webinar Series, organized by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice Team at the World Bank and the Social Cohesion Team at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). The purpose of this seminar series is bringing together leading…

WTO 2.0 – Making the multilateral trading system fit for the 21st century and how the G7 can help

Mildner, Stormy-Annika / Claudia Schmucker / Clara Brandi / Anja von Moltke / Marianne Schneider-Petsinger / Jeffrey J. Schott / Davide Tentori (2022)
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2022 Direkt zu: Dezember 2022 November 2022 Oktober 2022 September 2022 August 2022 Juli 2022 Juni 2022 Mai 2022 April 2022 März 2022 Februar 2022 Januar 2022 Dezember 2022 Die Ampel und die Religion: Weniger Interesse am R-Faktor Eigentlich will die Bundesregierung den Bereich „Religion und Außenpolitik“ stärken. Auch im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat das Interesse am R-Faktor nachgelassen. Zwar gehe die Kooperation…

Low carbon technology solutions and transitions

Online, 07. April 2022

A wealthy low-carbon economic development is hardly conceivable without technological innovation and changes in socio-technical systems (Rosenbloom et al 2020). Achieving net-zero emissions while not jeopardizing efforts to reduce poverty requires innovation and a fast transition towards zero emissions across all sectors including energy,…

Impact of conditional cash transfers on enrolment in community-based health insurance among female-headed households in south Gondar zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia

Mussa, Essa Chanie / Dessie Agegnehu / Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo (2022)
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Digging Deeper

Online, 23. März 2022

This year's theme for World Water Day is “Groundwater - making the invisible visible”. Although not directly observable with our eyes, groundwater represents the largest share of our global freshwater resources. Especially in many arid and semi-arid areas, where the potential for surface water use has already been exhausted, groundwater…

Charting a roadmap towards deep decarbonisation

Online, 22. März 2022

Worldwide decarbonization is not on track. While the magnitude of the challenge is beyond doubt, as well as the fact that inaction now drastically increases the costs of decarbonisation in the future, decision-makers around the world are shying away from determined action. While this is partly due to political opportunism, it also…

Carbon pricing and complementary incentives

Online, 22. März 2022

Most emitters do not pay for the harm they are doing. Arguably, the single most important measure for decarbonisation is to introduce a carbon price that is high enough to curb emissions below internationally agreed thresholds for global warming. One of the big advantages of carbon pricing over other policies is the following: It creates…

Governing land-sea interactions – an urgent necessity in the Anthropocene

Manlosa, Aisa O. / Achim Schlüter / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
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Putins Krieg und die Sünden des Westens

Klingebiel, Stephan (2022)
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Warum Russlands Aggression in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern nicht einhellig verurteilt wird – und was das mit dem Irak-Krieg 2003 oder der Unterstützung afrikanischer Freiheitsbewegungen durch die Sowjetunion zu tun hat.

Enablers of ambitious climate action: challenges and opportunities to combine climate change and sustainable development

Iacobuta, Gabriela (2021)
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Localisation of global refugee policies the case of Kenya and Kalobeyei

Dick, Eva (2022)
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Analysing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus from a polycentric governance perspective: Conceptual and methodological framework

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
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To regulate or not to regulate? Jordan’s approach to digital ride-hailing platform Careem

Zintl, Tina (2022)
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