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'Green and clean?' Hydropower between low-carbon and high social and environmental effects

Meijer, Karen / Waltina Scheumann / Daniel Däschle / Ines Dombrowsky (2014)
Briefing Paper 10/2014

Hydropower is globally the main source of renewable energy, and capacity expansion is planned. Hydropower’s role in mitigating climate change creates a dilemma: is hydropower desirable because of its low greenhouse gas emissions, or undesirable because of its local environmental and social impacts?

Why power matters in Payments for Environmental Services (PES)

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2014)
Briefing Paper 9/2014

In this article, we challenge the idea of PES as a panacea for environmental degradation and poverty, if its drawbacks are not taken into consideration. This paper contributes to bridging the gap between PES rapid political mainstreaming and the lack of understanding regarding PES social impacts.

We need a European energy transition

Ruchser, Matthias (2014)
Externe Publikationen

Addressing Peace, Security and State Fragility – How can the EU do Better?

ETTG Group (2014)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 29. Juli 2014

In 2014 countries such as Ukraine, Mali, Central African Republic, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Kosovo and Serbia have all been part of the top table of European Union (EU) decision-making, because of conflict, fragility or threat of conflict. The EU’s strategic environment is rapidly changing.

Sustainable Transformation and the need for a perspective beyond silo-thinking in Global Development Policy

Berlin, 27. Juni 2014

What does the new initiative of US-President Barack Obama for reducing carbon emissions mean for Europe and the UNFCCC meeting in Paris in 2015? How can we balance poverty reduction strategies and the transformation towards sustainability in the context of the post-2015 process? How could the nexus-perspective on energy, soil, and water…

Averting Water Wars in Asia

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…

Education is the Key

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…

Innovation paths in wind power: insights from Denmark and Germany

Lema, Rasmus / Johan Nordensvärd / Frauke Urban / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2014)
Discussion Paper 17/2014

This paper explores the key features, similarities and differences in innovation paths in Denmark and Germany and sheds light on their main determinants. While the paper shows that there are many common features between the two countries, it also identifies a diversity of pathways. It is as yet uncl

Reforming fossil-fuel subsidy regimes in the Middle East and North African countries

Vidican, Georgeta (2014)
Externe Publikationen

Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

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…

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally

Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Development leaders call for the EU to think and act globally Press Release, 6 May 2014 The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation calls for a stronger global role of the European Union (EU), especially in its relations with the developing world. The Independent Vision Group on European Development Cooperation worries, that Europe is so preoccupied with its own economic and social…

Why we need a green industrial policy

Pegels, Anna (2014)
Externe Publikationen

Als ik in zo’n windmolen mag klimmen, prima

Pauw, Pieter (2014)
Externe Publikationen

Making energy efficiency pro-poor: insights from behavioural economics for policy design

Never, Babette (2014)
Discussion Paper 11/2014

This paper reviews the current state of the art in behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as examples, it develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy policy design.

Wasser und Strom für die „Bottom Billion“

Scheumann, Waltina / Ines Dombrowsky (2014)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 24. März 2014

Wie kann die „unterste Milliarde“ der Menschheit mit Wasser und Strom versorgt werden?

Evolution of dam policies: evidence from the big hydropower states

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth (eds.) (2014)
Buchveröffentlichungen

Have international sustainability norms reached the emerging economies? Evidence from dams in Brazil, China, India and Turkey

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth / Nirmalya Choudhury (2014)
Externe Publikationen

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

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…

Privatization of Turkey’s rivers? The rise of water struggles and AKP government’s responses

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…

Green Transformational Policies towards Sustainability

Berlin, 11. März 2014

If we are to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system and to preserve humanity's life support systems for future generations, we need a radical transformation in the way we use our planet's natural resources. The market is failing to bring about the necessary changes and its incentive structures even caused the…