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Is the EU WFD suitable to support IWRM planning in non-European countries? Lessons learnt from the introduction of IWRM and River Basin Management in Mongolia

Heldt, Sonja / Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco / Ines Dombrowsky / Christian K. Feld / Daniel Karthe (2017)
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Information communication technologies in atrocity response and prevention: deepening our understanding of the legal, ethical and practical challenges

Martin-Shields, Charles (2017)
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Brazilian Platform on Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Brasília & São Paulo, 31. Mai 2017

Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) for an industry or product entail both opportunities and challenges for emerging economies. New national multi-stakeholder platforms on VSS in India (launched March 2016), Brazil and China (launched May and June 2017) reflect the increasingly proactive stance that business and government actors…

Global Solutions

, 29. Mai 2017

The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum that brings together the world’s leading industrialised and emerging economies. The group accounts for 85% of world GDP and two-thirds of its population. The first summit of the G20 took place in Berlin in 1999. In 2017, the G20 summit returned to Germany. To mark Germany’s G20…

GPEDC: Where do we stand?

Berlin, 28. Mai 2017

The second High-level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) in Nairobi in December 2016 produced the Nairobi Outcome Document that reaffirmed commitments to the four partnership principles - ownership, focus on results, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability. It also set the GPEDC…

The EU-South Africa strategic partnership: waning affection, persisting economic interests

Grimm, Sven / Christine Hackenesch (2017)
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Catalysing SDG Implementation through a Soil and Land Review

Berlin, 22. Mai 2017

Die Global Soil Week macht jährlich darauf aufmerksam, welche zentrale Rolle die Ressource Boden beim Thema nachhaltige Entwicklung und Klimawandel spielt. Sie bringt Akteure aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft zusammen, die über die nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung von Böden diskutieren. Gemeinsam suchen sie nach neuen…

NDC Explorer - analyse and compare countries' NDCs

Bonn, 17. Mai 2017

The NDC Explorer is the to-go-page to analyse and compare both qualitative and quantitative NDC content. Moreover, the NDC Explorer stimulates the debate on content, scope as well as formulation and implementation processes of the national climate action plans. The NDC Explorer was jointly established by the German Development Institute /…

Wastewater reuse in nexus perspective

Dresden, 17. Mai 2017

Moderation Birguy Lamizana , UNEP Co-chairs Ines Dombrowsky , German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Tamara Avellan , UNU-FLORES The seminar explored the opportunities of using wastewater within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food and energy crops. In this approach the…

The Interplay between Fairness and Ambition

Bonn, 17. Mai 2017

In negotiations for international agreements, finding the delicate balance between ambition that matters and the fair and equitable treatment of the diverse parties is the vital factor of success. The Paris Agreement has addressed this interplay in a particularly intricate way. In global climate policy, ambition to cope with and avoid…

Determinants of ecological footprints: what is the role of globalization?

Rudolph, Alexandra / Lukas Figge (2017)
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Setting a climate equity and justice research agenda

Bonn, 15. Mai 2017

Issues of equity and justice are central to the analysis and design of climate policies and the practice of climate politics at all levels. A broadening range of scholars and practitioners have engaged with these issues, but a strong epistemic community has yet to emerge. You are hereby cordially invited to participate in a one-day…

Long-term Strategies for climate resilient development

Bonn, 15. Mai 2017

There is a need for long-term planning to 2050 and beyond for both mitigation and adaptation. The Paris Agreement formulated a number of long-term goals, including holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels;…

Interconnections

Bonn, 12. Mai 2017

- Formerly known as One Agenda Conference - Interconnections between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement: Exploring the role of state, non-state and subnational actors The adoption of the 2030 Agenda (including 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Financing for Development Process) and the Paris…

Expectation management? Contrasting the EU’s 2030 Agenda discourse with its performance in evaluating policy coherence for development

Keijzer, Niels (2017)
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2017

2017 Direkt zu: Juli 2018 Juni 2018 Mai 2018 April 2018 März 2018 Februar 2018 Januar 2018 Dezember 2017 November 2017 Oktober 2017 September 2017 August 2017 Juli 2017 Juni 2017 Mai 2017 April 2017 März 2017 Februar 2017 Januar 2017 Juli 2018 Transatlantischer Handel in turbulenten Zeiten "Wenn man die Eskalationsspirale weiter dreht, verliert jeder", sagt Handelsexperte Axel Berger vom Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik zu den aktuellen Reaktionen der EU…

Marshallplan mit Afrika – Wirksamkeit der Entwicklungspolitik weiterdenken

Rudolph, Alexandra / Sarah Holzapfel (2017)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 02. Mai 2017

Der „Marshallplan mit Afrika“ von Entwicklungsminister Müller beinhaltet Eckpunkte für eine neue deutsche entwicklungspolitische Afrika-Strategie. Er sollte klare Wirksamkeitskriterien für staatliche EZ und private Akteure von Anfang an einbinden und somit die Wirksamkeit der EZ weiterdenken.

Payments for Ecosystem Services

Bonn, 26. April 2017

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are cash or in-kind payments directed to peasants that conserve forests important to secure water quality and quantity. Since poverty overlaps greatly with ecosystem service hotspots in the global south, PES has been often presented as a poverty alleviation mechanism. However, are peasants really…

National strategies for sustainable development between Rio 1992 and New York 2015

Scholz, Imme (2017)
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Drivers and Constraints for Adopting Sustainability Standards in SMEs and the Demand for Finance

Berlin, 25. April 2017

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss country cases from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa on the relevance of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors of the case studies are partners of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network. Representatives…