Events
27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
13
Teaching
Academic courses

Climate Science and Policy

Michel Jarraud
513
Publications
Journal article, 29 July, 2019

The post-political link between gender and climate change: the case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme

Gender Centre
Events
30–31 August 2021

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Global Governance Centre
Events
21 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – Environment and the Future of Partnerships

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
News
11th April 2019

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
News
4th June 2020

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

Shaila Seshia Galvin
13
News
20th September 2019

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

Anne Saab
713
News
6th August 2020

The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance

Centre for International Environmental Studies, Dario Piselli, Defne Gonenc and Yixian Sun
Events
30 September–4 October 2024

Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training

Ljubljana
Executive Education
Events
21 November, 2019

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Publications
Journal article, April 2018

Environmental impact assessment for climate change policy with the simulation-based integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE

Jorge Vinuales
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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.

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Target 13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

Target 13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

Target 13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Target 13.a

Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

Target 13.b

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities