On 6-8 November, DIE co-hosted the „2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance – Urgent Transformations and Earth System Governance: Towards Sustainability and Justice“, together with Universiteit Utrecht (NL) and The University of Arizona (US). As co-host, DIE hosted one of the conference’s dedicated „semi-plenary“ sessions on „Earth System Governance and the pursuit of the…
In June 2018, the European 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…
The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will be represented by Mariya Aleksandrova, Sander Chan and Gabriela Iacobuta, senior researchers in the project „Klimalog: Research and dialogue for a just and SDG-compatible implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement„, at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid (2 to 13 December 2019).…
On 23 October, researchers of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) convened a workshop in Ulaanbaatar, jointly with the Mongolian branch of the 2030 Water Resources Group of the World Bank. Participants from the Mongolian Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Mining, the private sector, and from NGOs discussed existing coordination…
On 30 and 31 October the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in cooperation with the Centre for European Studies of Ghent University hosted a workshop on the politicization of European development policy. The workshop discussions departed from the observation that the characteristics of political conflict over European development policy have significantly…