The Graduate Institute serves as a hub for research and activity on climate change and action. We offer an Executive Certificate and Master on Environmental Governance, and various PhD and MA academic courses. We also hold events and have produced academic and policy publications on this topic. The Centre for International Environmental Studies serves as a research centre on climate action. Our researchers also consult with organisations in the policy world, including the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections
Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene
2 Degrees of Human Nature: A Search for Climate Leadership
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
The Right to a Sound Environment
Environmental Governance & Policy-Making
Climate Crisis: a New Decade of Consequences
How Development Structures Depoliticise Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South
Pricing Climate and Biodiversity in Theory and in Practice
Climate Science and Policy
Sea-level rise: Displacement, Migration and Human Rights
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Climate change presents the single biggest threat to development, and its widespread, unprecedented impacts disproportionately burden the poorest and most vulnerable. The UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform stresses that “urgent action to combat climate change and minimize its disruptions is integral to the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”. Read more about Goal 13.