What can attending negotiations on biodiversity, land and climate tell us about the changing politics of global environmental governance? Reflections from Nairobi, Ulaanbaatar, Beijing and Shanghai. (mehr …)
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Three stops, three regimes: Reflections on a summer in global environmental governance
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BRICS in Delhi: Multipolarity in Practice and Challenges for Europe
© MEAphotogallery on Flickr, CC BY 4.0, cropped by IDOS.The BRICS group gets limited attention in Europe. Indeed, the BRICS member countries are “non-Western”, but not a coherent block. It is exactly for this reason, that it merits close attention. The BRICS+ as a group are economically fast catching up with the G7 in global weight – on purchasing power parity, BRICS+ has already overtaken the G7. Starting as an investment banker’s idea, the countries whose initials stand for BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later also South Africa – have since taken more members to their informal club, inter alia Iran, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. (mehr …)
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The fence isn’t the problem – What Ceuta and Melilla Really Reveal
©ramonramon via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Images of people scaling the fence into Ceuta and Melilla fuel the perception of a loss of control. Yet these people cannot simply travel on to the rest of the EU, nor are its external borders the real threat. Rather, the threats lie in the scapegoating and the knee-jerk call for isolation. Both obscure the view of what could be possible: partnership on equal terms to create opportunities for local youth, regulated entry coupled with justified deportation, and honest information. (mehr …)
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Reflections from Bonn’s Mid-Year Climate Talks: Implementation, Trade, and Missed Synergies
© UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) | Lara Murillo, Flickr, CC BY 4.0 IDOS Expert Niklas Wagner has followed the Bonn Climate Conference SB 64 in Bonn and shares his reflections on deliberation, finance, the new climate and trade dialogue, and missed synergies between the Rio Conventions.
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After Yaoundé: Sobering Pragmatism
© WTO / World Trade Organization The members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) gathered for the past few days in the capital of Cameroon for their biennial ministerial conference. Before the 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), sober pragmatism seemed possible. After four days of tense but fruitless negotiations in Yaoundé, sobering pragmatism carried the day. And both assessments still sit at the positive end of the evaluative spectrum. (mehr …)