Sustainable Futures

Kategorie: Event

  • Panel on “German Histories of Law and Development” in the context of the Conference “The Purality of Law and Development”

    On 26 September, the Acting Director of DIE, Imme Scholz, took part in a panel dealing with “German Histories of Law and Development” in the context of the Conference “The Plurality of Law and Development” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The focus of the 4th annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) is organized by Prof. Dr. Philipp Dann, member of the Board of Trustees and jurist at the Humboldt University in Berlin. It aims to investigate the plural nature of law and development as a field of study and practice.

  • Opening Event of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning, Leuphana University Lüneburg

    On 25 September, the founding event of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL) took place at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. Imme Scholz has been appointed as member of the advisory committee of the ISDL as expert for sustainable development and the interfaces of environment, society and policy.

    The Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning aims to contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing a platform for transdisciplinary, evidence-generating research and support evidence-based application of findings in close collaboration with partners from the global south.

  • News from SDSN Germany

    SDSN Germany organised a press briefing on the SDG and Climate Summit in cooperation with „Foundation 2° – German Businesses for Climate Protection“ and the network of journalists „Netzwerk Weitblick“ in Berlin on 6 September. Gesine Schwan and Dirk Messner (Co-Chairs SDSN Germany), Heike Janßen (Netzwerk Weitblick) and Sabine Nallinger (Foundation 2°) gave an overview of the current discourse on climate and sustainability, the focus of both summits as well as the implementation of both the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement in Germany and the EU. The press briefing was very well received by journalists.

    As part of the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) in New York, SDSN Germany organised two sessions together with MGG Network. Ariel Hernandez facilitated the discussion on knowledge cooperation on the national and international level. Johanna Vogel contributed with one paper to the session.
    Gabriela Iacobuta presented her research on climate mitigation policies and measures in one session. Janina Sturm presented a poster on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the EU.

  • Overcoming incoherence

    groupphoto of the workshop participants in their working room
    „Overcoming incoherence“: Workshop Participants ©DIE

    Effective climate action is urgent in the light of the goal to limit global warming to well below 2°C or 1.5°C. Without such action decades of progress in sustainable development will be undermined by the impacts of climate change. Yet, the interlinked nature of climate and sustainable development action require that both governments and non-state actors seek to avoid negative impacts and to maximize synergies. As less than 11 years are left for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and given the urgency of climate action, it is now critical to ensure a coherent implementation of the two agendas and to accelerate progress.

    Under the third-party funded project „Overcoming incoherence in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda“, DIE organized a workshop in cooperation with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Linköping University in Stockholm from 10-11 September. The workshop aimed to establish an international partner consortium and to develop a joint research programme that would take the current project further. To that end, scientists and policy makers from nine partner countries as well as from international organizations (OECD, UNDP) convened and exchanged their experiences on conflicting goals and political incoherence at the national and international levels. Building on this exchange and the project outcomes to date, an analytical framework was developed to support the upcoming research proposal for a three- to four-year international research programme.

    The analytical framework aims to take a critical approach on policy (in)coherence and to address the three key underlying factors (“three I’s”): ideas, interests and institutions. Applying this framework, in-depth comparative country case studies and knowledge-based tools for policy makers and stakeholders are planned under the future proposal to manage conflicts of climate and sustainable development objectives and to promote policy coherence.

  • Workshop: Making the most out of it: Impact assessments of governance programmes

    In-depth insights into the impact assessment of governance programmes were provided at the final workshop ‘Making the most out of it: Impact assessments of governance programmes’ of the ‘Impact Initiative Governance’ that was jointly organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

    The workshop took place on 18 September at the Berlin Representation of GIZ and opened up room for exchange on experiences of different impact measurements, on rigorous methods and approaches as well as on institutional and structural incentives and impediments for enhancing the use of rigorous methods for the impact assessment of governance interventions. National and international experts from both the practitioners’ field of governance support and the academic debate around impact assessment came together for this vivid exchange, including participants from organisations such as the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) Network, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Federal Foreign Office, the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

    In the course of the workshop, participants gained insights on the current technical but also political importance of impact assessment and learning processes as common goods. In addition, a need for synthesis reports and bundling of results of different projects has been identified as one of the main challenges.