Real ambition vs. false solutions: What’s at stake during COP26?

COP26 takes place against the backdrop of nationalist health policies with daunting consequences, failed promises to adequately scale up climate action and financial support, and an unprecedented push for false solutions that divert global attention from the urgent need to phase out fossil fuels.

By Sebastien Duyck, Erika Lennon, Francesca Mingrone, Nikki Reisch and Lien Vandamme

Broken Promises - Developed countries fail to keep their 100 billion dollar climate pledge

Analysis

At COP26 in Glasgow, past failures and shortcomings in climate finance mobilization and delivery must be ruthlessly addressed by presenting an implementation plan for future improvements.

By Liane Schalatek

More than an add-on? Evaluating the integration of gender in Green Climate Fund projects and programs

Study

This is the first in-depth independent study by Green Climate Fund (GCF) civil society observers to analyze the extent to which the GCF, the largest global multilateral climate fund and the first one to mandate gender integration from its outset, considers gender impacts of its funding portfolio.

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Climate & Energy

Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change

This E-paper provides a brief overview of AI’s multi-faceted relationship with climate change, and recommends policy levers to align the use of AI with climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways.

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Foreign & Security Policy

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The evolution of the EU’s naval operations in the Central Mediterranean: A gradual shift away from search and rescue

Capstone

This report outlines the development of the EU’s naval operations in the Central Mediterranean since irregular migration to its shores had increased in 2015

By Miriam Laux

Support for democracy and human rights in Turkey: New avenues for closer transatlantic alignment?

Dossier

In this dossier, four experts examine the status of Turkey’s relations with the US and the EU and fields of cooperation and conflict from different perspectives.

Focus on Ukraine

Democracy & Society

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A brief analysis of the German federal election 2021

Analysis

Germany has voted. The SPD, Greens and FDP come out of the elections as the winners, but take a very different view of the results – depending on their expectations and the pressure they feel upon them to act. By and large, the trend towards a party system in which no single party dominates continues. Constituency seats played a very particular role in these elections. This brief analysis provides an overview of the initial results, with a more comprehensive, empirical analysis to follow in the next few days.

By Stefanie John

Transatlantic Partnership on Memory, Responsibility and Transformation

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Global Development Policy

Covid-19 Pandemic Case Study: Brazil

Case Study

The Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil comes in the wake of the political polarisation that was accentuated in the 20141 presidential elections and the scientific denialism used by the current government of President Jair Bolsonaro. Experts estimate that the way the president handles the most serious health crisis in recent decades is a reflection of this scenario.

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