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…
Home » Press » New Website of “Käte Hamburger Kolleg” is online New Website of “Käte Hamburger Kolleg” is online Duisburg, 17 September 2012. The Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research is excited to announce the launch of its official website at http://www.gcr21.org/ . The site complements the work of the Centre and will help to realise one of the main goals to encourage knowledge exchange between the Centre, academics, diplomats, practitioners…
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 » 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 » 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 » 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 » 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 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 » 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 » Team » Fariborz Zelli Prof. Dr. Fariborz Zelli Research programme: Environmental Governance Specialization: Political Scientist Refereed Publications Zelli, Fariborz / Aarti Gupta / Harro van Asselt (2012) Horizontal institutional interlinkages in: Frank Biermann / Philipp Pattberg (eds.), Global environmental governance reconsidered: new actors, mechanisms and interlinkages, Cambridge, MA: MIT Pr., 175-198 Reiber, Tatjana / Fariborz Zelli (2011) Klimawandel in…
Home » Team » Isabel van de Sand Dr. Isabel van de Sand Function: Former Researcher Vita 04/2008-09/2013 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher 11/2008 - 11/2012 Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany PhD in Economics 02/2009 – 04/2012 World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya Research fellowship 04/2005 – 03/2008 Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal Researcher 01/2005…
Home » Team » Shikha Bhasin Shikha Bhasin Research programme: Transformation of Economic and Social Systems Vita 07/2011-12/2013 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher 2009-2011 The Climate Group Policy Analyst 2008-2009 London School of Economics Master of Science in Global Politics Refereed Publications Altenburg, Tilman / Doris Fischer / Shikha Bhasin (2012) Sustainability-oriented innovation in the auto industry:…