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Making climate action more transparent and ambitious: lessons learned from the NDCs

Katowice, 04. Dezember 2018

The first round of NDCs lacked sufficient ambition and clarity to provide a pathway for reaching the Paris Agreement' long term goals. Learning from past experience, the side event presents strategies for improving countries' next NDCs based on research from several upcoming academic publications. Presentations by: Niklas Hoehne (New…

Climate change: the European Union towards COP21 and beyond

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi / Simon Maxwell / Tancrède Voituriez / Alisa Herrero (2015)
Externe Publikationen

Team-Assistent*in für die Geschäftsführung (w/m/divers)

Für die Geschäftsführung suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Team-Assistent*in (w/m/divers).

How and Why to Involve Policy Makers More Structurally Into Impact Evaluations?

Online, 23. Februar 2023

In impact evaluations, the involvement of research in program implementation is crucial for the development of an adequate design and the accurate interpretation of results. In turn, the active involvement of policy makers in the research process is important for the buy-in and effective dissemination of the results. A new tool has been…

Social contracts and environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere

Bonn, Germany, 26. August 2024

The workshop is meant to discuss the relations between environmental change and social contracts and their implications for future development and policy-making in the MENA region and beyond. Papers presented at the workshop focus on one or more of the following questions: How does environmental degradation affect social contracts in the…

Revitalizing Investment for Covid-19 Recovery

Online, 30. September 2021

WTO members face a huge challenge to tackle declining foreign direct investment (FDI) flows as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to UNCTAD, global FDI contracted by 35% in 2020, compared to the previous year, due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The world, and particularly the developing world, needs…

Conference of the Parties (COP 21)

Paris, 30. November 2015

From 30 November to 11 December, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Paris. A new global agreement on climate change was to be adopted. This agreement is decisive for future life on our planet. Climate change threatens to…

Germany and Namibia as co-leads for the United Nations: chances and challenges on the road to the 2024 UN Summit of the Future

Beisheim, Marianne / Silke Weinlich (2023)
Externe Publikationen

Side event “Minimum standards for tax expenditure reporting”

Sevilla, Spain, 03. Juli 2025

Background Governments worldwide use preferential tax treatments – called tax expenditures – to pursue different policy objectives. These measures cause huge immediate public revenue losses while their effectiveness is often in doubt. Against this background, many governments seek to rationalise the use of tax expenditures. All too often,…

Exploring the maritime dimensions of EU-Africa migration

Online (Zoom), 04. November 2022

The Gulf of Guinea (GoG) covers 6,000 kilometers of coastline, extending from Senegal to Angola and including two island nations. The region is endowed with fisheries, mineral and hydrocarbon resources and its geography represents an important route for global sea trade. It is estimated that around 1,500 fishing vessels, tankers, and…

Incorporating equity in the Sustainable Development Goals

Bonn, 19. August 2013

The Sustainable Development Goals are now in the process of being formulated. These goals will help focus global attention on the subjects identified, and their emphasis, for the next decade and a half at least. This talk focused on the issue of equity - why is it important and how the formulation of the SDGs can better reflect the…

Dialogue on Turkey’s role in Global Governance

Bonn, 30. Juli 2013

Im Rahmen der „ MGG Public Lecture “ diskutierten Mehmet Arda und Eckhard Deutscher zur Rolle der Türkei im Global Governance -System. Mehmet Arda ist Professor am Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) an der Galatasaray-Universität in Istanbul. Bis zu seiner Berufung nach Istanbul arbeitete er für die United Nations…

Wastewater reuse for enhanced food and non-food value chains

Stockholm, 28. August 2016

The seminar explored the opportunities of using wastewater and organic waste within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food and energy crops in urban transition zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this approach the wastewater is treated in a target-oriented manner to be used for irrigation and nutrient supply of the…

The Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

Bonn, 28. Februar 2018

In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship;…

NDC-SDG Connections: Data on first NDC submissions (V1)

Iacobuţă, Gabriela / Clara Brandi / Adis Dzebo (2023)
Forschungsdaten

Implementierung eines WTO-Abkommens über Investitionserleichterungen in Laos

Vientiane, Laos, 09. November 2022

Vom 9. bis 11. November organisierte IDOS gemeinsam mit dem Sekretariat der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) und dem International Trade Center (ITC) einen Workshop zu Investitionserleichterung in Vientiane, Laos. Ziel des Workshops war es, das Bewusstsein der Beteiligten für die Verhandlungen über ein plurilaterales Abkommen zu…

NDC-SDG Connections: Data on updated NDC submissions (V2)

Dzebo, Adis / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Raphaëlle Beaussart / Aparajita Banerjee (2023)
Forschungsdaten

Berufsausbildung

Das IDOS bildet seit 2003 Kaufleute für Büromanangement aus.

Second Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network

Online, 09. Juni 2023

The second Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network took place on the topic of Gender Equality, SDG5. Kossi Lorimpo Adjah, 2022 Alumnus, gave a presentation on "Gender responsiveness agriculture: a tool to bridge the food insecurity gap in Africa". The alumni from 2021 and 2022 were invited. The VGAMs…

Pandemic prevention: a planetary health perspective

Berlin, 01. Dezember 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an enormous socio-economic and ecological impact. In the post-pandemic phase there is much discussion what policy actions are required at several governance levels to prevent, prepare and respond (PPR) to future pandemics. An international pandemic accord, under negotiation at the World Health…