Dialogforen mit Ankerländern

Towards a Low Carbon Economy: Prospects for a long-term dialogue
December 15-16, 2008 in Berlin

Preparatory InWEnt-Workshop

Supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The concept of low carbon economy (LCE) seeks to reconcile economic development and ambitious climate protection. It calls for long-term conversion processes towards a low emissions global economic system. Apart from the energy sector with its essential role for both, economic development as well as greenhouse gas emissions, additional areas such as urban energy consumption and land use and forest protection has received increasing attention.

Against this backdrop the development of joint strategies as a means of advancing transformation processes towards a low carbon economy (LCE) are needed.

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Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

Since the financial crisis spilled over from the US and hit Europe with full force in September 2008, the effects of the crisis have become increasingly felt also in developing and emerging countries. Although it remains unclear for the time being how stark the consequences for developing and emerging countries will be, it has become evident that a decoupling from the industrialised world has not taken place.

Still there remains some hope that growth in major emerging markets like China and Brazil will, despite crisis-related slowdowns, remain robust and thus help to stabilise the world economy.

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Conference on Deepening Financial Sector Reforms and Regional Cooperation in South Asia

Financial markets in developing countries and emerging markets have undergone tremendous transformation over the last decade. During this period, financial markets have experienced a rapidly changing global environment involving widespread liberalisation of capital flows, the emergence of new market participants and the creation of highly sophisticated instruments. Robust financial markets and sound financial institutions have a critical role to promote growth and development. Policy makers, central bankers and supervisory authorities of several South Asian states have initiated vast financial sector reforms of which this conference likes to take stock.

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Capacity Building for FIUs: a regional exchange for practitioners on Financial Analysis Techniques and global AML/CFT standards

Actions for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) are gaining in political importance. AML/CFT contributes to tackling terrorism, corruption and other proceeds generating crimes and helps to underpin the stability and integrity of the global financial system. As such AML/CFT measure contribute to the protection of important ‘global public goods’ including conflict prevention and enhanced regional and international cooperation.

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Financial Innovation & Emerging Markets - Opportunities for Growth vs Risks for Financial Stability

Financial markets are highly integrated and characterized by two important shifts during the past decade: First is the explosion of private capital flows, especially to emerging markets, second is the changing profile and importance of emerging markets in the global economy. These shifts contributed to the expansion of the global GDP over the decade, but also revealed vulnerabilities in the international financial system that are still being dealt with.

On a different note, efforts to reform and modernize financial markets in many emerging market countries have created new risks for financial stability. Against the back drop of current financial market turbulences a number of new trends such as regional bond market development and current trends in national capital market innovations raise questions on possible challenges to regulatory requirements, policy formulation and international cooperation.

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Global Governance in flux

High level policy dialogue with policy makers from Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to debate challenges and opportunities posed by fast changing global developments in a number of areas such as international trade and investment regime, mitigation of climate change and improvement of energy efficiency. Part of Germany's G8 presidency (Berlin, March 2007).

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Indisch-Deutscher Dialog "Soziale Sicherungssysteme"

International multi-stakeholder dialogue with focus on possibilites to improve social security for informal sector employees in the state of Karnataka/India (Berlin, Feb. 2007).

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Governing Emerging Megacities

International Dialogue with high-ranking officials from megacities such as Mumbai, Jakarta and Shanghai on challenges to megacities' infrastructure development and urban governance (Frankfurt, Dec. 2006).

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