Every Monday, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) comments on the latest issues and trends of international development policy by its Current Column. The column is intended for politically interested readers who want to get a brief overview on the state of German and international development policy.
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Dippel, Beatrice / Irina Rafliana (2021)
The Current Column, 25 June 2021
The Ocean is an existential part of Southeast Asia‘s cultural identities and heritage. At the same time, Southeast Asian countries are highly exposed to complex ocean-related risks and the consequences of global mean sea-level rise.
Schraven, Benjamin (2021)
The Current Column, 21 June 2021
This year’s World Refugee Day provides little ground for optimism as far as displacement and expulsion are concerned: the number of people displaced around the world has doubled over the past ten years. But what can we do differently in order to mitigate the root causes of displacement, as development policy is currently trying to do? First of all, we need to critically question the way in which politicians and society in Germany discuss displacement and what causes it.
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Jacqueline Götze / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Arne Riedel (2021)
The Current Column, 17 June 2021
While we all should “roll up our sleeves for the environment”, as demanded at the World Ocean Week 2020, researchers should do this jointly rather than separately. For this, more opportunities for exchange across all geographic, societal, and disciplinary levels are needed.
Dick, Eva / Paul Marschall / Christopher Wingens (2021)
The Current Column, 14 June 2021
Some local authorities are engaged in long-standing partnerships in which the administrations of both parties engage in dialogue on sustainable public services. This results in both parties learning lessons.
Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners (2021)
The Current Column, 10 June 2021
Germany is not the only country faced with managing course-setting issues concerning the future: the manner in which we do business, consume and are mobile needs to take planetary limits into account.
Lehmann, Ina (2021)
The Current Column, 07 June 2021
In order to strengthen the knowledge base for ocean protection, the United Nations launched the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development on June 1. This knowledge should inter alia inform existing international frameworks for protecting the ocean.
Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
The Current Column, 17 May 2021
As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10 May 2021
For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?