Veranstaltungsreihe: The United Nations at 70 Veranstaltungsreihe: The United Nations at 70 Pressemitteilung vom 13.04.2015 Kriege, Hunger, Flüchtlinge, Klimawandel: Auch 70 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung stehen die Vereinten Nationen vor globalen Herausforderungen. Doch ist der Verbund der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft der zunehmend komplexen Welt überhaupt noch gewachsen? Welche Strategien sind erforderlich, um gemeinsam die Probleme in den verschiedensten…
Bonn, 09. April 2015
A year ago on 16th March 2014 the Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a highly controversial referendum on its legal status. A translation of the referendum questions from Ukrainian and Russian to English indicated a choice between autonomy within Ukraine as per the 1992 constitution or joining the Russian Federation. Maintaining the…
Bonn, 12. März 2015
The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to a public brown bag lunch with Ryan Muldoon, member of the Core Team of the 2015 World Development Report, and Senior Research Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania. The World Development…
Pérez Pineda, Jorge A. (2015) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 04. Februar 2015
Even if there is “One World”, there is not a “one size fits all” solution for its problems. This means, how does Germany include the “common but differentiated responsibilities” statement in the Charter for the Future?
2014 Direkt zu: 2014 Januar 2015 Dezember November Oktober September August Juli Juni Mai April März Februar Januar 2014 Jan. Feb. März April Mai Juni Juli Aug . Sept. Okt. Nov . Dez. Januar 2015 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking: DIE gut platziert Im aktuellen 2014 Global Go To Think Tank-Ranking erlangte das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in der Kategorie Top International Development Think Tanks mit dem 12. Platz erneut eine gute Position.…
Bonn, 12. Dezember 2014
While the United Nations (UN) are central to the process of determining the new set of goals that will follow the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, there has been little introspection on its own organisational capacity to help countries to meet them. Which role should it play in the implementation of the new agenda? How does the…
Bonn, 30. Oktober 2014
Vor zehn Jahren veranstalteten das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), die European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) und der Verband Entwicklungspolitik deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen (VENRO) erstmals die Bonner Impulse. Thema der Auftaktveranstaltung war: „Armutsbekämpfung – nur…
Bonn, 23. September 2014
Tax abuse constitutes a massive headwind against development. One common form of it is trade misinvoicing, used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to shift funds to affiliates in other jurisdictions that tax profits at lower rates or not at all. Global Financial Integrity estimates that $4.7 trillion were thus siphoned out of developing…
Dirk Messner und Klaus Töpfer leiten deutsches Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Germany) Dirk Messner und Klaus Töpfer leiten deutsches Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Germany) Pressemitteilung vom 23.05.2014 Der Lenkungsausschuss des deutschen Sustainable Development Solutions Network ( SDSN Germany ) hat im Rahmen seiner konstituierenden Sitzung Dirk Messner , Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik ( DIE ), und Klaus…
Bonn, 25. Juni 2014
The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, especially in the South and East China Seas, has obscured another danger: water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization and peace. Water has emerged as a key security issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or…
Bonn, 16. Juni 2014
In what kind of world do we want to live? What future do we want for our children? These questions, which are leading the global debate on a new development agenda, were discussed in the international conference “Education is the Key – Towards a Global Post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. It was held on 16 June 2014 in the…
Neues Politikpapier zu Sustainable Development Goals 2015 Direkt zu: Neues Politikpapier zu Sustainable Development Goals 2015 Neues Politikpapier zu Sustainable Development Goals 2015 v.l.n.r.: Peter Lemke (WBGU), Bundesentwicklungsminister Gerd Müller, Bundesumweltministerin Barbara Hendricks, Dirk Messner (DIE-Direktor und WBGU-Vorsitzender), Sabine Schlacke (WBGU); Foto: WBGU Presseerklärung vom 04.06.2014 Berlin, 04.06.2013. Umweltschutz und Armutsbekämpfung…
Pauw, Pieter / Adis Dzebo (2014) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 26. Mai 2014
Die Klimafinanzierungsdebatte dreht sich zunehmend um technische Fragen, was die Mobilisierung privater Mittel verzögern könnte.
Bonn, 19. Mai 2014
The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…
Talaat, Abdel-Malek (2014) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 08. Mai 2014
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) was endorsed in December 2011 by 3500 delegates as a reaffirmation of their will to accelerate progress in improving development cooperation outcomes.
Duisburg, 15. April 2014
In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…
Bonn, 07. April 2014
This was the final conference of an international research project " Technological trajectories for low carbon development in China, Europe and India ", generously funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond under a joint call with Volkswagen Foundation and Compagnia de San Paolo. The project was jointly carried out by a team of 15…
Bonn, 20. März 2014
At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…
Bonn, 13. März 2014
Rationale for the workshop To the present day, a predominantly negative understanding of migration in the context of climatic and environmental change has prevailed. Migration has often been portrayed as a threat for human national and international security in policy fora or in media’s representation of the topic. Despite this fact,…
Bonn, 12. März 2014
Rivers offer a huge potential for the generation of ‘clean’ electricity through hydropower development. But are the environmental impacts of dams really that small and does public interest in the name of renewable energy sources justify expropriation of local populations? In Turkey, these questions lead to heated debates– in midst of…
