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Peace Report 2021 \ Europe can do more!
“Europe can do more!” This is what the four leading German peace research institute call for in their current Peace Report, which they presented at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin on 8 June 2021. The European Union must increase its ability to act within the global power structure to respond to global challenges by providing non-military solutions.
Worse is worse and better doesn’t matter?
Increasing consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for environmentally friendly products is a key challenge for sustainable development in market economies. Still, how consumers react to favorable and unfavorable environmental information of different quantitative extents is largely unknown. This research therefore uses prospect theory and competing theoretical foundations to derive pertinent hypotheses and test them by using a multi-level structural equation model.
The politicisation of European development policies
DIE’s Researchers Christine Hackenesch and Julian Bergmann have, together with Jan Orbie from the University of Ghent, edited a special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) on “The politicisation of European development policies”.
African-German Leadership Academy founded
Between 26 and 7 May 2021, a shortened digital pilot of the newly founded African-German Leadership Academy was hosted by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). DIE’s Director, Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge introduces the Academy in a short video.
International Day for Biological Diversity – To save biodiversity, transform the economy
Every year on 22 May, the United Nations celebrate The International Day for Biological Diversity to commemorate the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco and Ina Lehmann explain why the CBD and its state parties should urgently address economic growth and why the resetting of economies after the COVID-19 pandemic and the UN Biodiversity conference in October might provide an important window of opportunity.
A future model for the global common good. Seven principles to guide German development policy
In the run-up to the federal elections, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will be publishing a special series of the Current Column under the title “Impulses for the Bundestag Elections” over the next few months. To kick off the series, Prof. Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Prof. Dr Imme Scholz outline guidelines for German development policy in the 21st century.
Call for Papers – Sustainability in Global Value Chains
The research network Sustainable Global Supply Chains is inviting submissions for the conference “Sustainability in Global Value Chains” jointly organized with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on December 6 and 7, 2021.
Food Systems Summit Brief: Addressing Food Crises in Violent Conflicts
Food insecurity and hunger continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. In the context of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, BICC researchers published a briefing paper that looks at the multiple dimensions between current food crises and violent conflicts and identifies four key areas for a comprehensive response that addresses food insecurity and violent conflict.
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere
This paper reviews the evidence on slow-onset events presented in the Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) and the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), both published in 2019. It analyses how the reports, and recent literature cited in them, deal with the eight types of slow-onset events, specified by the UNFCCC.
