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Sustainable Futures

Kategorie: Research and policy advice

  • Klimalog project continues

    Photo: Klimalog-Team
    vlnr.: Mariya Aleksandrova, Alexander Knabe, Okka Lou Mathis, Gabriela Iacobuta, Carmen Richerzhagen, Steffen Bauer, Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco

    The project „Klimalog-research and dialogue for a climate-just transformation“ is now in its second phase. Main research areas in the current period will be: (1) Challenges for the implementation of climate policies in developing and emerging countries as well as scaling up ambitions, (2) resilience of vulnerable groups to climate-related risks, specifically in the least developed countries, (3) interlinkages between biodiversity and climate policies regarding both emissions reduction and adaptation to climate change, and (4) the role of subnational and non-state actors in global climate politics. An international and inter-disciplinary team of seven researchers led by Steffen Bauer has taken up its work in January. The team will continue to monitor progress of the international climate negotiations. Further, research will be complemented by policy advice as well as dialogue events on specific topics promoting exchange between academics, decision-makers and implementing agencies. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) from 2019 to 2021.

  • Hearing on Britain’s future trade and investment policy

    Photo: Axel Berger
    Axel Berger

    On 27 February 2019, Axel Berger gave evidence to the International Trade Select Committee at the House of Commons on future trade and investment policy of the United Kingdom (UK). After leaving the European Union, the UK will be able to conclude its own trade and investment agreements. On the basis of his research, Axel Berger presented the advantages and disadvantages of integrating market access clauses in trade and investment agreements. He also recommended that Britain play an active role in the discussions on investment facilitation in the World Trade Organization. These discussions are driven by emerging and developing countries and aim to make national investment frameworks more transparent, consistent and predictable. An international framework for investment facilitation has the potential to promote investment flows to developing countries

  • Conference Report: Better Funding – Stronger multilateralism? Arming multilateral development organizations for the Agenda 2030

    Conference Report: Better Funding – Stronger multilateralism? Arming multilateral development organizations for the Agenda 2030

    Photo: Gruppe von Experten
    Jennifer Topping (Executive Director, UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office), Henrik Hammargren (Executive Director, Dag Hammarsköld Foundation), Silke Weinlich & Max-Otto Baumann (DIE)

    How can the UN development system and multilateral development banks best be supported to play to their strengths in implementing the 2030 Agenda? Earmarking funds for specific purposes to multilateral organisations ha become increasingly important, yet this practice carries risks in terms of effectiveness and multilateralism. In order to draw lessons from recent analyses on the funding of the multilateral development system and political processes such as the UN funding compact and to identify further avenues for reform, DIE co-organised an expert workshop together with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation on 19 and 20 March in Bonn. Around 40 experts, representatives from international organisations (including UN country representatives participating in a UNSSC course) and donor bureaucracies discussed what member states and international organisations can do to curb negative effectives of earmarking, strengthen multilateralism, and tailor earmarked funding arrangements to the demands of the 2030 Agenda for an integrated support at scale.

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