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Climate & Energy

Green Equity

Dossier

This dossier explores what needs to improve in order for green equity to become a powerful instrument to support a green and socially inclusive transformation.

10 Essentials for a ‘Truly Green’ Green Equity Approach

Brief

Much is still to be desired for the GEA to align IFC’s equity investment portfolio with the Paris Agreement on climate change

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Climate mitigation and adaptation requires gender-responsive financing

Background

Among those hardest hit by the climate crisis, women have taken some of the leading roles in combatting it. On local levels they are directly addressing the effects of climate change. Here we present some of the core calls for fair and gender-equitable climate financing on a global scale.

By Birte Rodenberg

Feminist perspectives on gender-just and sustainable urban development

Factsheet

Urbanisation is a defining characteristic of life across the globe in the 21st century. Cities offer many opportunities for different types of people to forge a livelihood and lead a fulfilling social life. The diverse options are taken up in particular by women and people who renounce traditional, binary gender roles and norms and are thus often subject to various kinds of discrimination.

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Women protesting with a sign that says "no climate justice without gender justice"

Feminist perspectives on global environmental justice

Dossier

Environmental and climate crises are not gender neutral. They disproportionately affect people already facing multiple forms of discrimination. If feminist environmental policy is to extend beyond the effects on women, it needs to combine gender and ecological expertise. This dossier features a selection of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's contributions over recent decades to international debates on environmental and gender justice.

Climate Finance Fundamentals

An introduction to climate finance, financial flows, the regions and countries funds reach, and the climate interventions funds target.

Climate Funds Update

An independent website that provides information and data on the growing number of multilateral climate finance initiatives designed to help developing countries address the challenges of climate change.

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Foreign & Security Policy

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Where are the Ukrainian women? Respecting female voices now and in post-war times

Commentary

The Russian invasion of Ukraine tragically continues with brutal shelling of civilian targets, escalating into a humanitarian catastrophe. At the forefront of all this is the masculinity of war which caused these horrors in the first place, and which allows for ignoring the voices of Ukrainian women at all levels.

By Míla O'Sullivan

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.

Protest with sign that says "The Future is Female"

Women, Peace, & Security

Dossier

Women play a key role in securing global peace, and it is high time their role is recognized and reinforced.

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

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Memory and Democracy Study Tour 2022

Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange

Global Development Policy

Tackling Climate Change and Propelling a Green Transition under the African Continental Free Trade Area

E-Paper

Exploring the opportunities and challenges of addressing climate change under the AfCFTA and providing recommendations for governments, stakeholders, and development partners

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