Berlin, 30. Juni 2025
Triggered by drastic funding shortfalls, the United Nations has embarked on a new reform initiative in its 80 th year. A longstanding reform backlog and the need to adjust the United Nations to a changing global landscape only add to the urgency for significant reforms. The goal is to make the United Nations, in the words of the UN…
Grimm, Sven / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2025) Externe Publikationen
Es mangelt nicht an Wissen oder Visionen. Vielmehr fehlt der Wille zur gemeinsamen Gestaltung globaler Strukturen. Ein Gastbeitrag von Sven Grimm und Anna-Katharina Hornidge.
Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025) Policy Brief 11/2025
This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.
Online, 26. Juni 2025
Taking place from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Spain, the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) came at a critical time for international cooperation. Unilateral actions by the Trump administration and other powerful international actors are straining global collaboration, particularly in the area of climate…
Online (Zoom), 26. Juni 2025
We are delighted to announce the publication of our open access book “ Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic ”. Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is…
Bonn, 26. Juni 2025
Policy coherence is widely seen as a critical tool for countries to advance their climate and sustainable development commitments. Recent research has shown that the consequences from effective policy coherence efforts tend to deliver broader societal benefits and inequality reduction; while, in contrast, incoherent policymaking not only…
Mourji, Fouzi (2025) Buchveröffentlichungen
Erforth, Benedikt (2025) Externe Publikationen
Bonn, 25. Juni 2025
Background & Objectives States and non-state actors have pledged countless commitments to tackle climate change. They initiated projects, programs, and innovative approaches to demonstrate what is feasible and necessary to mitigate climate change. Yet, many of these projects struggle to survive and often remain locked-in their niches…
El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 24. Juni 2025
Deutschland sollte, anstatt völkerrechtswidrige Handlungen stillschweigend zu billigen, die Waffenverkäufe beenden, die laufende Kriege befeuern.
Stender, Frederik / Tim Vogel (2025) Discussion Paper 17/2025
This paper applies the gravity model of trade to examine how OECD countries leverage Aid for Trade (AfT), Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) to influence CRM imports from developing countries.
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025) Externe Publikationen
Pretoria, 20. Juni 2025
The theme of the South African 20 Presidency in 2025 is ‘Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability’. In this Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network Meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, experts from the MGG Network discussed how South Africa is leveraging the G20 Presidency to advance these principles both domestically and globally and exchange…
Klingebiel, Stephan (2025) Externe Publikationen
Johannesburg, 18. Juni 2025
Session in OTT Conference, “Think Tanks + Impact: Challenging our Understanding of Influence” Policy impact is hard to plan for and measure in the national context of a think tank; it often is an ambiguous process without clear notions of ‘causal relations’. This challenge redoubles when we look at operations in (international) networks…
Bonn and online, 18. Juni 2025
On the occasion of SB62, an event of the Task Force on Linking Adaptive Social Protection and Climate Financing brought together Parties, climate and social protection experts, multilateral climate funds and CSOs to advance key initiatives that place people-centered climate action at the forefront. It presented latest joint efforts to…
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) (2025) Externe Publikationen
German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2025) Externe Publikationen
Bonn, 17. Juni 2025
In the margins of the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB62), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Save the Children hosted a roundtable discussion. The event explored practical strategies to accelerate…
