EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has identified three priorities: a geopolitical EU Commission, the development of a European Green Deal and a stronger global role for the EU. What opportunities and challenges arise from these priorities for EU development policy and for relations with Africa? How can these priorities be agreed with the…
The compilation, edited by Markus Kaltenborn, Markus Krajewski and Heike Kuhn, focusses on the multifaceted interlinkages between human rights and the concept of sustainable development in general as well as with regard to specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the chapter “Reflecting on the Right to Development from the Perspective of Global Environmental Change and…
The 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) from 2-13 December was all about raising ambitions of countries’ climate plans, rules for global emissions trading and addressing loss and damage from climate change. Together with partners from around the world, DIE co-hosted a series of events on managing climate risk and loss and damage, the…
Am 9. Dezember 2019 präsentierte Geovana Zoccal am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) ihr Forschungsprojekt „Jenseits von Nord und Süd: Stärkung der Dreieckskooperation für globale Entwicklung“. Geovana Zoccal ist Forscherin am BRICS Policy Center in Rio de Janeiro, einem wichtigen Partner des DIE in Brasilien, und war über ein Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium für die letzten zwei…
More than 20 researchers from three continents gathered at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) for a roundtable discussion and a research workshop to discuss whether and how social protection programmes have an impact on social cohesion. Gabriele Köhler (UNRISD) affirmed the question with reference to research on several South Asian…