TTIP, TPP, CETA – die großen Handelsabkommen schaffen es immer wieder in die Medien. Nicht selten stehen dabei handelsferne Aspekte, wie die Konsequenzen für Umwelt und Klimaschutz, im Mittelpunkt der öffentlichen Diskussion. Doch was genau ist dazu in den Handelsabkommen niedergeschrieben? Welche Umweltaspekte betrachten sie? Und wie hat sich die Aufnahme von Umweltschutzklauseln in Handelsabkommen in den letzten Jahren entwickelt?
Köhler-Rahm, Anette (2009) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 02. März 2009
Bonn, 04. Dezember 2019
The primary objective of social protection, especially in low- and middle-income countries, is to tackle poverty and vulnerability. In addition, it is often argued that social protection schemes or systems have the potentiality to achieve other objectives such as empowering vulnerable groups, incentivizing beneficiaries to engage in more…
Bonn, 09. Mai 2014
Unter den Leitbegriffen Fragmentierung und Kohärenz fand vom 9. - 11. Mai 2014 das 4. UN-Forschungskolloquium der AG Junge UNO Forschung am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) statt. Diesem Thema liegt die Beobachtung zu Grunde, dass sich die Global Governance-Architektur hinsichtlich der Normen, der beteiligten Institutionen…
Mumbai, 27. Oktober 2010
Background The global economy is now rebounding from the crisis. There is a widespread belief that the worst of the global crisis is over as output and trade is back to pre-crisis levels in 2010 in most of the emerging and developing world, whereas the OECD countries still suffer from low growth and high fiscal deficits. Unprecedented…
Rio de Janeiro, 17. Juni 2012
Industrial policy has made a forceful comeback. The global economic and financial crisis demanded swift action by governments to support and restructure productive activities, and industry in particular, in order to protect employment. At the same time global challenges such as climate change cannot be addressed without decisive policy…
Brüssel, 22. März 2011
Since 2007, Brazil and the EU have been strategic partners and have held annual summits. In line with the EU’s recommendation to improve its strategic partnerships, this workshop will explore the opportunities to strengthen relations, particularly in the field of development. The presidency of Dilma Rousseff offers a window of opportunity…
Bonn, 15. Juni 2016
The climate conference in Paris has been hailed as a milestone in international climate cooperation. For the first time, poorer and richer countries alike have drafted plans which are the basis of a comprehensive international agreement for global decarbonization. Now, however, follows the much less glorious phase of implementation – that…
Bonn, 20. Oktober 2016
In September 2015, countries agreed on a new sustainable development agenda in order to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by the year 2030. In the lecture series, experts from a variety of academic disciplines will analyze the most important grand challenges involved in this ambitious agenda. They will explore…
Berlin, 21. Oktober 2016
DIE, BDI and UNFSS jointly organised a high-level launch event for the 2nd UNFSS Flagship Report. UNFSS is a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Trade Centre (ITC), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Industrial Development…
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Forschungsprogramm "Umwelt-Governance und Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit".
Die T20 sind ein breit angelegtes Netzwerk von Think-Tanks, das der G20 eine forschungsbasierte Politikberatung bietet.
Oslo, 18. Mai 2011
Improving multilateral collaboration to address global change Given the potential of international collaboration in science, technology and innovation (STI) to facilitate quality, efficient, and effective research to address global challenges, the study of what allows for fruitful collaboration is important to consider. To this end, the…
Bauer, Steffen / Sander Chan / Lukas Hermwille / Wolfgang Obergassel (2020) Externe Publikationen
Bonn and Online, 02. Juni 2022
The Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research cooperatively organizes the bonnalliance lecture series in the field of “sustainable development”. Until 1972, environmental protection was essentially local; “The Limits to Growth” was the breakthrough to global environmental policy. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, German environmental scientist…
Bauer, Steffen (2009) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 14. September 2009
Online / Bratislava, 07. September 2021
Most likely caused by a virus spillover from wildlife to humans, the COVID-19 pandemic epitomizes the disastrous consequences that the global biodiversity crisis can have for human health and livelihoods. Scientists have long been warning that disturbed ecosystems facilitate the spreading of viruses, that the risk of contagion grows with…
Fischer, Doris (2008) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 03. November 2008
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2025) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 24. Februar 2025
In den kommenden vier Jahren muss die Bundesregierung, als treibende Kraft in Europa, ihr volles Gewicht für die Sicherung der regelbasierten Ordnung in die Waagschale werfen.
Stamm, Andreas (2019) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 01. April 2019
Der Autor Hans Jonas prägte den „ökologischen Imperativ“. Kann seine Technologieskepsis angesichts erodierender planetarer Grenzen und wachsender materieller Bedürfnisse der Weltbevölkerung heute noch uneingeschränkt gelten?
