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Focussing European cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa on social contracts

Furness, Mark / Markus Loewe (2021)
Briefing Paper 18/2021

The EU has long struggled with conflicting objectives in the MENA region, especially liberal-democratic political and economic reforms, and restrictive trade practices, migration management, and security cooperation. Focussing cooperation on the social contract offers a way out of these dilemmas.

Escaping the fragility trap

Bonn, 06. Juli 2018

In April 2018 the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development has published its report “ Escaping the fragility trap " codirected by Sir Paul Collier. The report sets out characteristics of fragility and looks at the wider consequences. The Commission was launched in March 2017 to guide policy to address state…

United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development: perspectives from China and Europe

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (eds.) (2014)
Studies 84

The book reflects current thinking among scholars in China and Germany on the post-2015 global development agenda. The contributions from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the German Development Institute reflect differences, but also surprising convergence of perspectives.

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: student / research assistant (f/m/diverse) One Health

The IDOS Research Programme “Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability” is looking for a student assistant for its new project "One Health on the Move"

The COVID-19 crisis: Nail in the coffin or shot in the arm for a sustainable global migration regime?

Online, 23. September 2020

The 2030 Agenda and the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, agreed upon in 2018, have emphasized the need for a comprehensive and cooperative approach to human mobility at the global level . Against this background, bilateral aid agencies and international organisations are directing significant resources toward supporting…

The next EU budget

Berlin, 20. November 2019

In June 2018, the Commission tabled an ambitious new EU budget characterised by reform, tough choices, new aspirations and a budget where the 27 member states would increase relative spending so as to compensate for the anticipated withdrawal of the United Kingdom. Good progress has been made during the past months in formulating the…

Taxation and digitalization

Bonn, 01. Oktober 2019

Digitalization should be considered a transformative factor for tax systems worldwide. The use of ICT in economic transactions and tax administrations entails the prospect of addressing tax compliance, evasion, and avoidance in new ways. Increased information could also provide new opportunities for tax policy design. Digitalization could…

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…

Up-scaling co-benefits of sustainable consumption for development

Bonn, 13. Juni 2022

Environmentally sustainable consumption is now high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers in rich countries. In contrast, in developing countries the consuming middle classes are just emerging, mostly in cities, and concerns about the environmental footprint of consumption are only slowly entering the policy agenda. Given the…

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…

Klimalog @COP24

Katowice, 02. Dezember 2018

The Klimalog project of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has been happy to play an active role in the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 03 to 14 December Official COP24 exhibit: Klimalog Booth in cooperation with…

Decision-making in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change

Bonn, 27. September 2010

Adaptation to climate change has become a topical issue both in research as well as in the policy arena. Yet while the need for adaptation to climate change is generally accepted, adaptation research practice and the practice of implementing adaptations is still challenged by a number of difficulties. These are related both to conceptual,…

Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Bonn, 19. Mai 2014

The international conference in Bonn on 19/20 May 2014 aimed to identify research and funding gaps to influence Nexus policy-making and research on a global level. It brought together policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders to discuss the linkages across three key resource sectors – water, energy and food. Participants addressed…

Book Presentation and Discussion: Ben Ramalingam: Aid on the Edge of Chaos

Berlin, 11. März 2014

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others…

Dirk Messner zum Leiter der United Nations University UNU-EHS in Bonn ernannt

Zum 1. Oktober 2018 übernimmt Dirk Messner, derzeitiger Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) die Leitung des United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn.

From the G20 Hamburg Summit to MC11 in Buenos Aires

Geneva, 27. September 2017

The G20 is a unique international platform that can overcome policy silo mentalities and bridge trade policy and other public policy objectives such as sustainable and inclusive growth. Often these broader objectives are neglected in trade policy debates. In fact, trade policy has emerged as one of the most contested policy fields during…

Effective natural resource management for inclusive and sustainable growth in the context of increased scarcity and climate change

Bonn, 08. Juni 2011

Context and purpose of this Consultation The 2012 European Report on Development (ERD), the third such report to be published by the EU, will focus on how natural resource management can promote sustainable and inclusive growth. Within this overall theme the report will start from a contextual analysis of increasing scarcity and the…

Weiterentwicklung des wpn2030-Formats „DNS-Lab“: Rückschau und Impulse für die Zukunft

Löpelt, Sarah / Christa Liedtke / Julia Schlarmann / Katharina Gröne / Jean-Henri Huttarsch / Ingo Wolf (2024)
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3D-Digital Development Dialogue "The Climate Crisis is Now"

Online, 28. April 2022

The 3D seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher & one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide. Speakers: Veronika Bertram (KfW) Daniel Clarke (Center for Disaster…

Globale Rezession und Klimakrise gemeinsam lösen

InWEnt gGmbH, 02. Juli 2009

Am 2. Juli 2009 begrüßte InWEnt Dirk Messner, Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik und stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), zu einem Vortragsabend. Thema ist "Globale Rezession und Klimakrise gemeinsam lösen: Wie kann der Übergang zur…