If you want to talk to Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven these days, you have to manage to get hold of her between two conferences. The Director of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) only attended the African Climate Summit in Nairobi a few weeks ago, and in late November, she was in Dubai for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). Both appointments already say a lot about Hoven’s focus at GIZ and how she intends to expand the organization’s activities. Whereas in the past, the focus was more on economic development, the Bonn-based organization is now focusing more and more on tackling climate change. „We need to bring together the various dimensions of development cooperation,“ she says. By this, she means decarbonization, economic development, and climate change adaptation. „Since Paris, this is also what is expected of us.“