Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Washington, DC Office

#StandWithUkraine

We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues, and at the same time also by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are under harsh state repression.

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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.

Operationalizing finance for loss and damage

Report

This report sets out key principles for loss and damage finance that are grounded in climate justice.

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The Cost of Delay

Brief

After 31 years of pressure there is no dedicated finance for Loss and Damage. This analysis details the human and economic costs caused by the delay and makes the case for establishing a Loss and Damage Finance Facility at COP27.

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Paris Alignment Principles

Paper

Tackling the climate crisis requires fundamental shifts in the way flows from publicly backed international financial institutions are channeled and managed.

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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

Dossier

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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Immigration Politics: Refugees in Turkey and the 2023 Elections

Article

In order for Turkey to overcome its refugee crisis, elites need to accept the country’s new reality, change their rhetoric, and devise integration policies that foster social harmony and protect Turkey’s new residents.

By Merve Tahiroğlu

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.

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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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Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance

Study Tour

Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance (DAICOR) is a reciprocal transatlantic exchange program for individuals with a professional interest in the promotion of an inclusive and progressive culture of remembrance in public spaces in Germany and the United States.

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Memory and Democracy Study Tour 2022

Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange

Global Development Policy

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True transformation or cosmetic changes? Germany's pursuit of a feminist foreign and development policy

Commentary

At the Feminist Development Policy Conference in Berlin, the German government showed progress toward a feminist engagement with international partners.

By Philipp Kuehl

Setting Higher Standards

Policy Brief

Two separate initiatives have been undertaken to create a common standard to mobilize private capital for investments in sustainable, quality infrastructure projects. But if they are not well coordinated and communicated they could create additional confusion.

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