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Our figure of the month 05/2023: The higher interest rates have not yet stopped the rise of the house prices

Higher financing costs and increased material costs have hardly slowed down the house prices for a single-family home in Germany. A detached single-family house from the existing buildings…

New platform sheds light on the bioeconomy

How sustainable is the German bioeconomy? The new platform – monitoring-bioeconomy.org– bundles knowledge in straightforward graphics and overview summaries to explore this question. An…

Update and extension of the Algerian model e3.dz completed

Work carried out as part of the GIZ project "Policy dialogue and knowledge management on low emission development strategies in the MENA region" (DIAPOL-CE) on the model already developed by…

Our figure of the month 04/2023: Import dependency on China continues to grow

For some years now, a debate has been sparked in Germany about the resilience of supply chains and dependencies on individual states. In 2022, this debate was largely driven by the Russian war…

Our figure of the month 03/2023: Number of people in need of care in Germany doubles to 5 million within ten years

The latest care statistics show that there will be around 4.96 million people in need of care in Germany in 2021, a huge increase on previous years. All persons who receive benefits from…

Our figure of the month 02/2023: Demand for environmental professionals in Germany 2021

The consequences of climate change are increasingly being felt in Germany. It is estimated that since 2000, damage caused by climate change impacts in Germany has averaged 6.6 billion euros…

New videos on the CRED project: How can climate risks and climate adaptation be integrated into macroeconomic modelling?

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has published two informative videos about the CRED project. In addition to insights into the management of climate risks…

Virtual training: Using macroeconomic models to assess the impacts of climate change and adaptation on national economies.

This training is offered to share experience from the CRED programme in piloting the development and application of such models in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. The CRED programme developed…

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