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EXPERTS ROUNDTABLE REPORT

ADVANCING CLIMATE ACTION FOR COP28 AND TANZANIA’S NDC COMMITMENTS

The expert’s roundtable discussion on COP28 and Tanzania’s NDCs was held on 1st June, 2023, at Protea Hotel Oysterbay in Tanzania. The objective of the discussion was to engage pre-COP28 stakeholders, academia, policy makers, and climate experts in a collective effort to raise awareness, foster accountability, and drive action on climate change. The discussion aimed to understanding international and national climate action processes, the outcome of COP27, evaluate the status of Tanzania’s NDCs and identify practical solutions for effective implementation and plans towards COP28. The major theme of the discussion was how to keep the 1.5°C goal alive and how to strengthen adaptation and mitigation actions, including loss and damage. The alarming projections of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions reaching catastrophic levels underscore the urgency to address the climate crisis now.

ISRA News Articles of August 2023

Read News Articles of August 2023 from ISRA News Agency

Read news articles of August 2023 from ISRA News Agency with the support of KAS Thailand

Much Ado about Something? Australia’s Views on IPEF’s Prospects

This paper by Peter Draper discusses Australian perspectives on the IPEF’s anticipated outcomes, negotiation challenges and implementation issues.

Perspectives on IPEF from Aotearoa New Zealand

This paper articulates the rationale behind New Zealand’s decision to join the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) based on a study of official documents, publicly available submissions and other printed materials, as well as conversations with a number of experts.

Voluntary Party Quotas: Japan’s Status Quo and Lessons from Germany

Japan has a long lack of female lawmakers. According to the gender gap report released by the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) in June, Japan’s ranking was the lowest ever, 125th out of 146 countries, especially in the political field, where it ranked 138th. In fact, if we look at the percentage of women in parliament: in the first postwar 1946 general election, the ratio of women in the House of Representatives (HR) was 8.4%, and in the most recent 2021 general election, it stood at 9.7%. There has been virtually no increase for around 70 years. Even in the most recent national election, the 2022 House of Councillors election, the ratio of women elected stood at 25.8%.

Conflict Weekly #191, 31 August 2023, Vol. 4, No. 35

An initiative by NIAS-IPRI and the India Office of KAS

Coup in Gabon and One Year of "Total Peace" in Colombia

Ernsthaftigkeit oder Inszenierung

Was steckt hinter Lulas Bemühungen um internationale Allianzen zum Schutz der Regenwälder?

Mit dem Amazonasgipfel fand im August 2023 im brasilianischen Belém ein internationaler Gipfel zum Schutz des Regenwaldes mit hochrangigen Teilnehmern aus den Amazonas-Anrainerstaaten statt. Es wurde vereinbart, die gegenseitige Zusammenarbeit zu verbessern, auf konkrete Ziele konnte man sich jedoch nicht einigen. Ein kurz nach dem Gipfel vorgestelltes neues Wirtschaftsprogramm wirft zudem die Frage auf, wohin Brasiliens Umweltpolitik tatsächlich steuert.

EVP-Parteienbarometer September 2023

Die Lage der Europäischen Volkspartei in der EU

Der EVP-Parteienbarometer zeigt die Stärke der europäischen Parteienfamilien in aktuellen Umfragen auf - mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der bürgerlich-christdemokratischen Europäischen Volkspartei (EVP).

Tanzania´s global economic diplomacy: Evaluating international partnerships for prosperity

Roundtable meeting in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

On 27 July 2023, the Chatham House Africa Programme and the Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Tanzania office convened a private roundtable meeting in Dar es Salaam. The discussion focused on the priorities for Tanzania’s engagement on the international stage, including the effectiveness of global partnerships for trade, investment and infrastructure development, and the country’s agency in responding to shared challenges such as climate change. The roundtable marked the third event in a project partnership series between KAS and Chatham House on Tanzania’s Foreign Policy Agenda: Economic Diplomacy and International Agency. The series aims to encourage informed dialogue and debate at an important moment for Tanzania’s external engagements: the country’s main foreign relations strategy document, the ‘New Foreign Policy’, was adopted in 2001, but an official review has been commissioned by President Samia Suluhu Hassan and is to take place in 2023. The first event under this collaboration, a webinar on Tanzanian agency in the international system, 1 was held in November 2022; and a roundtable event in Arusha, focused on regional foreign policy, was held in May 2023. 2 This Dar es Salaam roundtable meeting was held under the Chatham House Rule. 3 The following document summarizes the key findings and themes of the discussion.

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF): Approach, Challenges and Prospects

This introductory chapter, written by Amitendu Palit and Ramita Iyer, serves as an entry point to the IPEF Discussion Paper Series and offers an overview of the IPEF’s approach, challenges, and prospects.