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UNFSS Academic Advisory Council Annual Meeting 2022

KU Leuven + online, 27. Oktober 2022

The UNFSS Academic Advisory Council (AAC) annual meeting brings together an international mix of academic and policy experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to consolidate the knowledge on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of VSS effectiveness. The UNFSS AAC Annual Meeting…

Healthy living on a healthy planet

Alexander Bassen / Jörg E. Drewes / Markus Fischer / Sabine Gabrysch / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Karen Pittel / Hans-Otto Pörtner / Sabine Schlacke / Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann / Anke Weidenkaff (2023)
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Integrative approaches to the environmental and socio-economic SDGs

Iacobuţă , Gabriela Ileana / Heleen van Soest / Subhes Bhattacharyya (2024)
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Sustainability standards and global governance: experiences of emerging economies

Negi, Archna / Jorge Antonia Pérez-Pineda, Jorge Antonia / Johannes Blankenbach (Eds.) (2020)
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Aid, political conditionality, and other international efforts to support democracy in Africa

Hackenesch, Christine (2019)
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Plurilateral Initiatives in the WTO

Online, 23. November 2021

Inclusive plurilaterals are important to revitalize multilateral trade cooperation at the WTO. Yet they are largely pursued by advanced economies and developing countries often do not participate in them. In a recent Think20 Policy Brief the steering committee members of the Trade and Investment Research Network (TIRN) propose that…

Next steps towards a comprehensive Africa-EU partnership

Online, 03. November 2021

In March 2020, the EU published a proposal for a comprehensive strategy with Africa, ahead of their regular summit with the African Union scheduled for October that year. Both the strategy and the planned summit were soon overtaken by the dramatic events of the global COVID-19 pandemic. One and a half years onwards, discussions are now…

The (Im)possibility of Governing Transformation to Sustainability

Barcelona and Online, 06. Juli 2021

The panel on the "(Im)possibility of Governing Transformation to Sustainability" aims to bring together academic scholars and policy experts to advance the discourse on the governance of transformation to sustainability (T2S). The (im)possibility of governance of transformation to sustainability is driven by how the related multiple…

Conservationists' perspectives on poverty: an empirical study

Fisher, Janet A. / Hari Dhungana / Janine Duffy / Jun He / Mirna Inturias / Ina Lehmann / Adrian Martin / David M. Mwayafu / Iokiñe Rodríguez / Helen Schneider (2020)
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Nudging with Chinese characteristics: an adapted approach from the Global North to achieve a sustainable future?

Hägele, Ramona (2019)
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AU-EU cooperation on the Green Transition: What role of a European Green Deal?

Online, 02. September 2020

Preparations for the AU-EU summit offer an opportunity to give AU-EU cooperation on green transitions a new impetus. On the European side , the European Commission has proposed an ambitious agenda to transform the European Union in a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and to decouple economic growth from resource use. While the Green Deal…

The future of European development banking: what role and place for the European Investment Bank?

Erforth, Benedikt (2020)
Discussion Paper 11/2020

The paper takes stock of the European development finance landscape and the EIB’s role as part of this landscape. It looks at the interactions between different European development stakeholders and assesses the proposed reform and its potential impact on European development policy.

Investment facilitation and WTO modernisation

Geneva, 11. Oktober 2019

Discussions on investment facilitation, initiated at the 11 th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Buenos Aires, represent an opportunity both for countries aiming at improving their domestic frameworks to attract investments but also for the World Trade Organization (WTO) itself. While traditional international investment policy…

Environment and Transformation

Bonn, 11. Juli 2019

Climate change, environmental degradation and increasing global divides in income and wealth force development scholarship and development policy makers to think beyond established North-South binaries. They are in demand to address the cumulative environmental, social and political impacts of the Anthropocene in a more just, inclusive…

Digitalisation in the lives of urban migrants: evidence from Bogota

Martin-Shields, Charles P. / Sonia Camacho / Rodrigo Taborda / Constantin Ruhe (2019)
Discussion Paper 12/2019

This paper explores how access to digital technology (ICTs) differs between long-term residents and urban migrants in Bogota. Our data indicates that while migrants initially have lower access to ICTs, over time they become more likely than long-term residents to gain ICT and internet access.

The world in 2050

Bonn, 29. Januar 2018

The World in 2050 ( TWI2050 ) seeks to frame the solution space for sustainable development pathways, based on comprehensively achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and sustaining progress to 2050 and beyond within planetary boundaries. To this end TWI2050 is to provide fact-based knowledge to support the policy…

Better Funding - Stronger multilateralism?

Bonn, 19. März 2019

Multilateral organisations such as the United Nations and multilateral development banks must play an important role in accelerating the implementation of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. Needed are well-functioning, effective and efficient organisations that act as guardians of the agenda, supporting governments and other…

Implications of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) for developing countries

Stephenson, Sherry / Alexandros Ragoussis / Jimena Sotelo (2016)
Discussion Paper 10/2016

What are the implications of a future TiSA agreement for developing countries? This paper highlights relevant issues in the negotiations and identifies potential risks to non-members, while arguing that TiSA can and should be more development-friendly to avoid deeper segregation of services markets

Upgrading in Global Value Chains

Bonn, 28. November 2016

The workshop brought together researchers from both qualitative and quantitative research backgrounds who have shown their expertise in this field in order to promote an exchange about the state of the art and potential future research avenues in relation to upgrading in GVCs. Each participant had the opportunity to present their recent…

The G20 and the global trading system

Brandi, Clara (2016)
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