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Earth System Governance

Toronto, 20. October 2022

The Earth System Governance Project is a longstanding global research alliance that seeks to mobilise research at the interface of global environmental change and governance, across local to global scales. The project brings together a highly interdisciplinary research community spanning disciplines such as international relations,…

When International blueprints hit local realities: bricolage processes in implementing IWRM in South Africa, Mongolia and Peru

Lukat, Evelyn / Mirja Schoderer / Sofia Castro Salvador (2022)
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How to improve governance and accountability

Online, 04. November 2022

The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus recognizes the interlinkages between the these sectors and highlights the importance of integrated solutions to address climate change issues with minimal, concerted trade-offs. In recent years, the WEFE Nexus has gained political traction as an important element of the ambitious climate…

IDOS@COP27

Sharm El-Sheikh, 06. November 2022

At the Conference of the Parties to the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention. Building on the outcomes and…

Zeitenwende – Investing in competencies for transnational cooperation

Grimm, Sven / Tatjana Reiber (2022)
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(Green) capitalism will not save biodiversity!

Hein, Jonas / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2022)
The Current Column, 05. December 2022

Scientific evidence is clear, alarming and disappointing. Despite of a growing number of protected areas and market-based instruments biodiversity dropped worldwide by 68% since 1970. Yet, infinite economic growth remains the dominant paradigm despite of devastating impacts on ecosystems.

Murky trade waters: regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa

Stender, Frederik / Tim Vogel (2023)
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Governance towards coordination for water resources management: the effect of governance modes

Lukat Evelyn / Andrea Lenschow / Ines Dombrowsky / Franziska Meergans / Nora Schütze / Ulf Stein / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2023)
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Integrated approaches for a circular economy in German development cooperation

Never, Babette (2023)
The Current Column, 13. February 2023

In the context of green industrial policy, the circular economy offers tremendous overlooked potential for creating green jobs and conserving resources in Africa and beyond.

Governability of Air: Beyond Water and Land in Coastal Urbanities

Kunz, Yvonne / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
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A tsunami of anxiety: the 57-metre wave that shook Jakarta and Western Java

Rafliana, Irina / Ahmad Arif (2023)
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Governance of the water-land-food nexus for integrated achievement of the 2030 Agenda: the case of Lower Awash River Basin, Ethiopia

Srigiri, Srinivasa / Waltina Scheumann (2022)
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Green hydrogen – support for the just transition?

Altenburg, Tilman / Andreas Stamm / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
The Current Column, 13. March 2023

The energy transition will only be widely accepted if it is a socially responsible, i.e. a just, transition. This is possible, but it requires adapting the German approach to hydrogen policy.

The UN Water conference – time to govern water as a global commons!

Dombrowsky, Ines / Annabelle Houdret / Olcay Ünver (2023)
The Current Column, 21. March 2023

The March 2023 UN Water Conference should lay the ground for improved governance of water as a global commons, ideally through a UN mandated multi-stakeholder platform on water.

UN 2023 Water Conference

New York, 22. March 2023

22 nd of March is World Water Day , and this year global attention to our important but yet seriously threatened water resources is higher than ever. The first UN water conference since 46 years takes place in New York and reiterates the crucial dependence of human development, the SDGs and the climate agenda on sufficient water resources…

Turning the tide on the freshwater biodiversity crisis

New York, 22. March 2023

“To protect and restore water-related ecosystems” (SDG 6.6) is the target with the narrowest time frame of the 2030 Agenda, supposedly achieved by 2020 yet remaining unaccomplished. Freshwater biodiversity holds an intrinsic value, but more importantly represents the very foundation of water and food security, climate resilience and equal…

Why focusing on individual action alone is not enough

Schoderer , Mirja / Jean-Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2023)
The Current Column, 22. March 2023

Water security requires collective action and concerted political effort that tackle the root causes of water degradation and push to expand access to safe water and sanitation.

Connections that matter: how does the quality of governance institutions help protect our ocean?

Allen, Cameron / Anita Breuer / Julia Kercher (2023)
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The sustainability transition requires extended and differentiated North-South cooperation for innovation - UNCTAD Background Paper

Stamm, Andreas (2023)
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