International cooperation with impact

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH works worldwide for a future worth living. Together with our partners, we create opportunities and sustainably improve people’s lives. Through our networks, we turn international agendas into action – with a global vision and local impact.

Weltklimakonferenz 2026

Interview

„Aus Klimazusagen müssen jetzt Taten werden“

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven erklärt im Interview, was sie von der Weltklimakonferenz COP31 in Antalya erwartet. Die stellvertretende GIZ-Vorstandssprecherin macht deutlich, warum die Arbeit der GIZ hierbei auch deutschen Interessen dient.

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Hintergrund

Weltklimakonferenz 2026: Das Wichtigste zur COP31 in Antalya

Die UN-Klimakonferenz tagt dieses Jahr in der Türkei. Wir beantworten die zentralen Fragen dazu.

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Insights

Background

An opportunity for climate action

Carbon markets mobilise funds for climate action projects. As the head of several such projects at GIZ, Sven Egbers explains how this works.

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Report

Where Jordanian skilled workers are boosting the economy

How Hadi-Plast is breaking new ground in tackling the skills shortage with apprentices from Jordan and support from GIZ. A report from the German region of Westphalia.
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Background

Artificial intelligence requires global rules

Why is AI governance important for sustainable development? How is GIZ assisting its partner countries’ efforts to shape the digital future – and can Germany learn anything from this? Kim Willett and Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Fall tell us more.

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News

Perspectives

Eine Gruppe von Personen, darunter ein prominenter Gast, beobachtet eine Wissenschaftlerin, die ein wissenschaftliches Gerät im Labor vorführt.
Researching together, protecting together: Germany’s Federal President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, saw for himself the work of Ghanaian and German scientists on vaccine development during a visit to Ghana. The GIZ has connected experts from the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine with those from the Institute of Virology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
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