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IN BRIEF akzente 3/158 IN COMPARISON POST-2015 AGENDA The motto of the European Development Days 2015 was ‘Our world, our dignity, our future’. This year’s forum was the key event in the Euro- pean Year for Development. Around 5,000 experts and decision-makers from the fields of politics, business, academia and civil so- ciety gathered in Brussels to discuss numer- ous topics related to the post-2015 devel- opment agenda. These included questions such as: What are the requirements for sus- tainable growth? How can we promote uni- versal human rights? GIZ was represented at a dozen events on a variety of topics, including urban de- velopment, gender equality, social cohe- sion, employment, health, climate change and energy. The Development Days also re- sulted in a number of specific agreements. For instance, Neven Mimica, the European Commissioner for International Coopera- tion and Development, signed a regional financing agreement for Southern and Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean worth more than EUR 1.3 billion between now and 2020. www.eudevdays.eu Out of work High unemployment continues to be a problem for many countries around the world in 2015. An excerpt from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) employment statistics for 2015 reveals the marked differences between countries. The figure shows unemploy- ment as a percentage of the total working population in each country. Impetus for the future PHOTO:DeutscheWelle World in transition CLIMATE AND DIGITISATION TV journalist Claus Kleber was among the speakers at the Bonn lecture series ‘A Changing World. Climate. Global. Digital.’, which invited participants to think about the interaction and relationships between climate-related issues and digital change. The lecture series was organised by the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft of the University of Bonn, the Liaison Office Internationale Wissenschaft of the City of Bonn, the Deutsche Welle Akademie and GIZ. Topics addressed by the high-level speakers included whether the digital advances made in recent decades have encouraged international commitments to cli- mate change mitigation, and what additional data and findings are now used in climate change discussions and negotiations. www.fiw.uni-bonn.de/digital-society/projects-and-events/die-welt-im-wandel-en Source: OECD 2015 5 10 15 20 25 JAPAN GERMANY SPAIN 510152025