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Demonstrierende mit einem Banner mit der Aufschrift: Pay Up For Climate Finance Now!

In this fateful year of public climate financing, a quantum leap must be made

Climate finance is high on the agenda of this year's international climate negotiations. Climate finance expert Liane Schalatek explains the key sticking points and what civil society calls for.

Greens in the EU election: down in the West, up in the East, South and North

Analysis

2019 was an extraordinary election year for the European Green Party, and it was clear from the beginning of the 2024 campaign that it would be tough to match it again this year. While the Greens lost seats overall, most of the losses were concentrated in Germany and Western Europe, while the bloc was able to pick up new seats in the South and East.

By Tobias Gerhard Schminke

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European Elections 2024: Results and Perspectives on the EU’s Future
in the framework of the 15th European Democracy Conference

Recording from July 2, 2024

With:

Tarik Abou-Chadi, Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative European Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Jan Philipp Albrecht, Co-President, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin - Annika Brockschmidt, Journalist and Author, Berlin
Chantal Kopf, Member of the German Bundestag, Alliance90/The Greens
Anna Lührmann, Minister of State for Europe and Climate, German Federal Foreign Office

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Democratic Reporting in Times of Elections
How Political Journalism Can Help Safeguard Democracy

Recording from June 24, 2024

Panelists:

Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at New York University
Errin Haines, editor-in-chief of the independent newsrooms 19th*News
Hadija Haruna-Oelker, journalist and author

Moderated by: Aline Abboud, journalist and news anchor

Dossiers

Sustainable Urban Mobility: Views from Germany and the United States

Earth Overshoot Day: Five portraits of women

Living Within Our Means

Sustainably recovering from the pandemic: The European Green Deal – Think Locally

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Shaping the EU's Financial Architecture for the Future

E-Paper

The European Union faces the enormous challenge of having to achieve the necessary climate targets it has set itself, while at the same time increasing industrial competitiveness and ensuring public services of general interest. A sustainable European financial architecture based on three pillars is needed to finance these green-social investments at EU level. It is presented in this policy paper.

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Democratic Corrosion at the Heart of Europe

E-Paper

The Covid-19 pandemic crystalized the myriad challenges facing the modern world like few crises before it. Its impacts were so far reaching, its insights so diverse, that even the metaphors created to understand it spun off their own field of study.

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Data for Environmentally Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Mobility

E-Paper

This report specifically examines the opportunities that exist for U.S. cities to use mobility data to improve transportation's environmental sustainability, accessibility, and equity.

Mobility Data for a Just Transition:

E-Paper

This strategy paper considers possible ways to use mobility data for improving environmental sustainability and equitable access to transportation in Germany.