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Industrial decarbonization and hydrogen

Potsdam, 28. Oktober 2025

The industrial sector accounts for a quarter of global direct CO 2 emissions. Hard-to-abate heavy industries, such as steel, chemical, cement and aluminium, account for the bulk of these emissions. Decarbonizing them is essential to cope with global warming, but also challenging due to the need to coordinate upstream and downstream…

IDOS-Team

Am IDOS arbeiten Menschen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und mit breiter Expertise.

Post-conflict societies: chances for peace and types of international support

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mroß (2017)
Briefing Paper 4/2017

Recurring violence haunts many countries that have experienced a civil war. What types of international support do they receive and what are their chances to sustain peace? This briefing paper analyses new data on peacebuilding efforts in 29 countries that have experienced a civil war.

The future of climate and development finance: balancing separate accounting with integrated policy responses

Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2023)
Policy Brief 19/2023

This paper discusses the blurring of development and climate finance and argues that the NCQG process and the integration of loss and damage into the climate finance system must go hand in hand with a separation of ODA and climate finance whilst ensuring integrated policy responses.

Die deutsche Energiewende: Synergien, Zielkonflikte und politische Triebkräfte

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Ines Dombrowsky (2023)
Policy Brief 23/2023

Die Energiewende in Deutschland bringt Synergien und Zielkonflikte in den Bereichen Klima, Energie, Biodiversität und soziale Gerechtigkeit mit sich. Diese und ihre politischen Triebkräfte werden mit Blick auf den Kohleausstieg und die Einführung der Windkraft an Land untersucht.

Der geopolitische Wettbewerb im Indopazifik und dessen Einfluss auf die Entwicklungspolitik

Nath, Ela / Stephan Klingebiel (2023)
Policy Brief 9/2023

Dieses Papier untersucht die Geopolitisierung der Entwicklungspolitik in der indo-pazifischen Region. Wir erörtern die Entstehung indo-pazifischer Strategien und deren Überschneidungen mit der Geopolitik und der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit traditioneller Entwicklungsakteure wie den USA und der EU.

Mexico’s “catch-22”: the implications of being a trade and climate partner of the United States and the European Union

Lucatello, Simone (2022)
Discussion Paper 11/2022

Are Mexico’s trade agreements suitable to tackle climate change? This paper looks at the interplay of treaties with the US/Canada and the EU, and the potential impact of the EU Green Deal. Caught between trade arrangements with giant partners, Mexico may be trapped in a “catch-22” situation.

Internal displacement, informal local structures and social cohesion in Mozambique

Jaji, Rose (2024)
Policy Brief 32/2024

Host communities demonstrate the capacity to organise informal interventions that result in positive reception, accommodation and integration of IDPs, as well as maintenance of social cohesion without material and logistical support from the government.

Gaps and opportunities for synergies in international environmental law on climate and biodiversity to promote the Sustainable Development Goals

Rantala, Salla / Gabriela Iacobuta / Stefania Minestrini / Julika Tribukait (2020)
Externe Publikationen

Can capital markets be harnessed for the financing of small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in low- and middle-income countries?

Sommer, Christoph (2024)
Policy Brief 28/2024

SMEs are key to inclusive development. Yet they are often hampered by constrained access to finance. Since their most important source of external finance, bank loans, is insufficient to meet their financing needs, this brief explores the (potential) role of capital markets for SME finance in LMICs.

The role of the G7 in solving global debt crises

Bonn and Online, 19. Mai 2022

The multiple crises of climate change, pandemic and global recession have led to the debt situation of many countries in the Global South assuming critical dimensions today. Three times as many countries as before the Corona pandemic are in a particularly critical debt situation (erlassjahr.de and MISEREOR: Global Sovereign Debt Monitor…

Decarbonising lifestyles, scaling up behavioural innovations

Online, 06. Mai 2022

Even with better incentives and faster green tech innovation, deep decarbonisation is almost impossible to achieve as long as carbon-intensive lifestyles prevail; and even more so, when rising purchasing power increases and consuming middle classes expand at the scale witnessed in the past two to three decades. Since efficiency…

Capacity building for investment facilitation for development

Online, 01. Februar 2022

This is the 10th of a virtual event series on investment facilitation for development, held in the framework of a joint ITC/DIE project on Investment Facilitation for Development. The public virtual event will discuss capacity building for investment facilitation for development. In particular, it will focus on issues related to analysing…

Compelled to compete

Online, 13. Januar 2022

In the third of five research-in-progress seminars co-hosted by the American Associations of Geographers’ (AAG) Development Geographies Specialty Group and the German Development Institute (DIE), we welcome Professor Kimberley Thomas (Temple University). Prof. Thomas is a widely cited scholar of the geopolitics of water, marine systems,…

Addressing the challenges of digital lending for credit markets and the financial systems in low- and middle-income countries

Sommer, Christoph (2021)
Briefing Paper 23/2021

Digital lending holds great potential for the availability of finance especially during recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This brief outlines how to address associated risks to guarantee a well-functioning and stable credit market (and financial system) that foster sustainable economic development.

Implementing an investment facilitation framework – Learning from the TFA experience

Online, 15. September 2021

This is the 8 th of a webinar series on investment facilitation for development, held in the framework of a joint ITC/DIE project on Investment Facilitation for Development. The webinar will focus on implementing an investment facilitation framework for development, while learning from the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) experience…

(Im)mobility in international research cooperation

Online, 22. Juni 2021

2 nd Workshop on International Research Cooperation of “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) Nowadays, partnerships are state of the art in international research projects but underlying motivations often vary between the mere desire to meet funding requirements and the honest pursuit of more…

Implications of COVID-19 for conflict in Africa

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mross / Yonas Adaye Adeto (2021)
Briefing Paper 12/2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected armed conflict and political violence within countries? Focusing on Africa, this policy brief analyses the immediate and long-term implications of the pandemic on conflict and reflects on its implications for international peacebuilding efforts.

Approaches for supporting smallholders in the Global South: contentious issues, experiences, syntheses

Rauch, Theo / Michael Brüntrup (2021)
Briefing Paper 1/2021

The support of smallholder farmers is indispensable for reaching many SDGs in the Global South. HOW to achieve that is subject to decade-old debates. The text sketches major positions, reflects them in light of smallholder realities, and tries a synthesis.

Pressemitteilung: DIE präsentiert kooperative Wissensplattform für Soziale Kohäsion

Heute startet mit dem Social Cohesion Hub eine einzigartige kooperative Wissenswebsite, die sich dem Verständnis des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts widmet.