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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Historical Deal for Biodiversity

The 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity took place in Montreal from the 7th to the 19th of December, 2022. The results were mixed. This article analyses the good, the bad, the ugly, as well as the way forward from CBD COP15.

By Simone Lovera

"We’ll never be able to offset our way to keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C"

Interview

The question of CO2 removals was part of the negotiations on Article 6. 4 of the Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate conferennce COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh. Erika Lennon of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) explains what the issues and concerns were at the conference around this topic.

By Björn Ecklundt

The power of poetry

Essay

How does my writing work? Mely Kiyak addresses this big question against the backdrop of Heinrich Böll's Nobel Prize lecture, in which he dealt with the unfathomable prerequisite for his own writing.

By Mely Kiyak

Front Cover of the Publication, a green background

Technical potential & challenges of REnewable hydrogen

This report provides the technical background of processes of renewable hydrogen production and its applications in key sectors and discusses factors which will determine the costs reductions for the commercialisation of renewable hydrogen to reach economies of scale.

"Immediately after that seminal year of 2000, it was the writers who started creating bonds"

Interview

In this far-ranging interview, our office director, Nino Lejava talks to NIN Award winning author and director of the KROKODIL independent cultural center, Vladimir Arsenijević, about the historical and political foundations of Serbia's current geopolitical as well as cultural position with regard to its immediate neighbors, as well as Europe.

By Nino Lejava

The Debt-Climate Nexus

Commentary

As central banks tighten monetary policy, dozens of climate-vulnerable, highly-indebted countries teeter on the edge of a financial abyss. To address the confluence of economic and environmental disasters ravaging the Global South, the international community must provide immediate debt relief in exchange for green investments.

By Ulrich Volz, Kevin P. Gallagher, Jörg Haas, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Yueven Li, Anzetse Were and Shamshad Akhtar

In the Name of National Security: How Spyware Threatens the EU’s Democratic Foundations

Interview

The use of spyware against journalists in the EU is alarming. Saskia Bricmont explains how severe the threat is, who the perpetrators are and their intentions.

By Saskia Bricmont, Claudia Rothe and Georg McCutcheon

23rd Annual Foreign Policy Conference

Dossier

Our 23rd Foreign Policy Conference focused on the security challenges in Eastern Europe. What can be done to improve the security of the "twilight zone" between NATO and Russia? What are the regional and global implications of the war in Eastern Europe?

"Poetry is not a class privilege."

Interview

In the book "Collected Silence," Sharon Dodua Otoo has opened up new perspectives on the life and work of Heinrich Böll. In an interview, the writer now explores the now famous Nobel Prize lecture that Heinrich Böll wrote fifty years ago. A conversation about the possibility of language, poetry and other realities - beyond prevailing reason.

By Frank Steinhofer

Stories of Feminist Mobilisation:

Under the banner “For Feminist Mobilisation”, the Global Feminist Pitch 2022 wanted to give attention to feminist movements that do not get the deserved space in the public discourse. Twelve feminists from Brazil, Syria, Jamaica, Belarus, Venezuela, Kenya, Romania, the Philippines, Nigeria, Nepal, and Hungary had the opportunity write about the feminist mobilisation in their respective regions in a format of their choice. The result is “Stories of Feminist Mobilisation”.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Historical Deal for Biodiversity

"We’ll never be able to offset our way to keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C"

The power of poetry

Technical potential & challenges of REnewable hydrogen

"Immediately after that seminal year of 2000, it was the writers who started creating bonds"

The Debt-Climate Nexus

In the Name of National Security: How Spyware Threatens the EU’s Democratic Foundations

23rd Annual Foreign Policy Conference

"Poetry is not a class privilege."

Stories of Feminist Mobilisation:

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