Home » Press » Press Releases » WBGU-Report "Great Transformation“ now online as E-Seminar WBGU-Report "Great Transformation“ now online as E-Seminar Press Release of 15 November 2012 The WBGU report "World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability“ is now accessible online as an e-learning seminar ( http://wit.va-bne.de/ ) ( www.wbgu.de/en/trafoseminar ). Council members and invited speakers present the report and address the challenges of scientific policy…
Home » Press » New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns? New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns Chaturvedi, Sachin / Thomas Fues / Elizabeth Sidiropoulus (eds.) (2012): Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? London/New York: ZED Books ISBN: 9781780320632 The new book " Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? "…
Home » Press » DIE ranked as Top Five Development Think Tank DIE ranked as Top Five Development Think Tank Bonn, 20 January 2012 . An impressive success for the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE): For the fourth consecutive time DIE has been selected as one of the best think tanks and research institutions in several categories. The experts compiling the “2011 Global Go-To Think Tanks” consider the German Development Institute…
Home » Press » New working paper: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities New working paper: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities Leiderer, Stefan: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities: the red herring revisited UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2012/68 ISBN: 978-92-9230-531-4 The ‘right’ choice of instruments and modalities to provide aid to developing countries in support of poverty reduction and economic development is arguably one of the most contested…
Home » Press » Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy Special Volume: Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy The “Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy” recently published the Special Topic on “Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy”, which is edited by Nay Htun, Yi Jiang, Devinder Mahajan, Dirk Messner , and Richard Templer. This special volume complements the special volume “Energy Pathways to a Low-Carbon Society”, which was published in 2010. Since then, the…
Home » Press » Today, the 48th Graduate Course has started Today, the 48th Graduate Course has started Bonn, 3 September 2012. Since 1965 the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) trains German young professionals in its Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation . Alumni of the Training Programme are, among others, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ingrid…
Home » Press » WBGU: Now mobilize private capital for the global energy-system transformation WBGU: Now mobilize private capital for the global energy-system transformation WBGU Press Release of 6 September 2012 Germany and many other countries are facing a fundamental transformation of their energy systems. Billions will have to be invested worldwide in converting energy systems and raising energy efficiency. In its policy paper “Financing the Global Energy-System…
Home » Press » Gutachten „Große Transformation“ “Great Transformation“ now online as E-Seminar Bonn, Berlin, Bremen, 15 November 2012 . The WBGU report "World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability“ is now accessible online as an e-learning seminar ( http://wit.va-bne.de/ ). Council members and invited speakers present the report and address the challenges of scientific policy advice. The E-Seminar consists of 11 lectures (2 presentations of 30 minutes and…