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Clara Brandi
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Clara Brandi is Head of the Research Programme “Transformations of Economic and Social Systems” at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). She holds a PhD from the European University Institute, a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford (MPhil in Politics) and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Freiburg, where she received the Hayek Award. Clara Brandi works on global governance and sustainable development, with a focus in the interplay between trade and the environment, paying particular attention to developing countries and emerging markets. Her current research includes a focus on voluntary sustainability standards and the drivers and effects of including non-economic issues in international trade agreements. Clara Brandi provides policy-advice at the national and the international level. She teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at the University of Bonn.
MORE ABOUT CLARA BRANDI >2022
Mehmet Sait Akman, Fabrizio Botti, Clara Brandi, Michael Brüntrup, Markus Dietrich, Ilaria Espa, Andreas Freytag, Robert Koopman, Stormy-Annika Mildner, Bettina Rudloff
Sustainable and resilient agricultural value chains: Addressing multiple vulnerabilities with a new partnership approach
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine meet longer-term impacts of climate change and no-less pressing challenges of social and environmental sustainability in and around agriculture, food and nutrition security.
Many international mechanisms are already in place for agriculture and f...
2022
Philip Schleifer, Clara Brandi, Rupal Verma, Katharina Bissinger, Matteo Fiorini
Voluntary standards and the SDGs: Mapping public-private complementarities for sustainable development
To strengthen global sustainability governance, academics and policymakers have called for a better integration of private governance with public policy instruments. Surprisingly, however, systematic research on the state of such public-private complementarities in the field of sustainable developme...
2021
Stefan Pahl, Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Frederik Stender
Cling together, swing together: the contagious effects of COVID‐19 on developing countries through global value chains
This paper aims at estimating the economic vulnerability of developing countries to disruptions in global value chains (GVCs) due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. It uses trade in value added data for a sample of 12 developing countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America to assess their depe...
2020
Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Axel Berger, Jean-Frédéric Morin
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?
Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are increasing in terms of their number and variety. The economic effects of these environmental provisions remain largely unclear. It is, therefore, necessary to determine whether the trend to incorporate environmental provisions in P...
2020
Sandra Cabrera de Leicht, Matteo Fiorini, Clara Brandi, Philip Schleifer, Katharina Bissinger, Niematallah Elfatih Ahmed Elamin, and Santiago Fernandez de Cordova
Linking Voluntary Standards to Sustainable Development Goals
With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations has called on the private sector to
contribute more to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This report helps decision makers in the public and private sectors to understand where voluntary
sustainability standard...
2020
Clara Brandi
The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil
By providing insights into the interaction between private-driven and public-driven governance initiatives in the context of the “Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) and the “Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil” (ISPO), this article sheds new light the interaction between private and publ...
