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Development
Security
Sustainable Transformation
Global Issues
30 April, 2019

Driving Transformative Change: Foreign Affairs and the 2030 Agenda

Sara Batmanglich (OECD), Pietro Bertazzi (CDP), Oli Brown (Chatham House), Clare Church and Alec Crawford (IISD), Rachel Locke and David Steven (Center of International Cooperation, NYU), Alexander Müller (TMG Think Tank for Sustainability), Alexander Carius, Bibiana Garcia, Daria Ivleva, Benno Keppner, Benjamin Pohl, Lukas Rüttinger and Stella Schaller (adelphi)

The challenges facing the international community are growing while the willingness to cooperate seems to be waning and unilateral action at times gets in the way of joint solutions. Foreign policy can pave the way for transformative change by actively supporting a major achievement of multilateralism: the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals have a common aim: more peace and justice worldwide. But what exactly is the role of foreign policy in the global sustainability architecture? What are the fields of engagement and tools of a new "Diplomacy for Sustainability"?

Civil Society
Climate Change
Climate Diplomacy
Europe
29 April, 2019

Climate Diplomacy Podcast 3: Populism and Climate Change

Martin Wall, adelphi

Right-wing populist parties are already part of the governments of seven EU member states and are expected to make up a quarter of MEPs after the European elections in May 2019. In this episode host Martin Wall talks to the authors of an explorative study on the the voices and the weight of right-wing populist parties in the formulation of European climate policy.

ECC Exhibition in Mexico

The exhibition Environment, Conflict and Cooperation (ECC) shows the unprecedented environmental pressures and climate extremes that the world faces today. The ECC Exhibition in Mexico is being organised by GFLAC and adelphi. It is supported by a grant of the German Federal Foreign Office and is part of the Climate Diplomacy initiative.

Climate Diplomacy
Global Issues
25 April, 2019

SDG17 on Global Partnerships – The embodiment of foreign policy

Daria Ivleva, adelphi

The SDG 17 calls for getting the foundations right for substantial progress on the 2030 Agenda. It includes key conditions for successful sustainability action that are relevant across all actor groups, and most of them depend on international cooperation.

Launch Event - Shoring up Stability in the Lake Chad Region: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks

The Lake Chad Basin is currently suffering one of the world’s greatest humanitarian crises with approximately 10.7 million people in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. Over the past two years a team of experts led by adelphi has been conducting an assesment of the climate and fragility risks affecting the region in order to identify responses which can address the linked causes and drivers of the crisis.

2nd Climate Diplomacy Week 2019

From 24 September to 6 October 2019, EU embassies around the world celebrate the 2nd Climate Diplomacy Week by reaching out to communities and partner organisations, highlighting positive global action and collaboration on climate change. Several events will take place to bring focus to climate action in the EU and beyond.

Climate Diplomacy Week 2019

Climate change is one of the major challenges of the 21st century, presenting risks to international prosperity and security. Securing international action in response is a key foreign policy challenge.

Climate policy as an approach for security – Interview with Susanne Dröge, SWP Berlin

One of the biggest political challenges today is to close the gap between climate action and security objectives. In this interview, Susanne Dröge, Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), argues that the debate on climate security is expected to become more prominent and dynamic in the near future, and explains how the Paris Agreement is providing a foundation for climate security policies to take shape.

Making cities livable through nature-based solutions – Interview with Luc Bas, IUCN

Can climate change be better addressed through a more localised, city-centric and nature-oriented focus? In this clip, Luc Bas, Director of the European Regional Office of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), shares the IUCN’s “nature-based solutions” approach towards climate action and sustainable urban development.

 

Civil Society
Climate Change
Europe
Global Issues
18 April, 2019

Of Yellow Vests and Green Policies

Adrian Foong (adelphi)

Originally planned as a demonstration against fuel tax hikes, the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) revolts have sparked national and global debates. Some view the demonstrations as part of a rising anti-climate movement, while others draw parallels between the protests and demands for more climate action.

 

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