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 change research during the late Cold War
New faculty member at CIES: Prof. Bill Adams, Claudio Segré Chair of Conservation and Development
Strategic Climate Litigation: an effective governance tool to address climate change?
Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification
Endangered Earth
Youth and multilateral summits in the triple planetary crisis
Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward
Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability
Is the 2015 Paris Agreement likely to achieve its goals? A skeptical assessment
Darkness at Noon Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era
‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘
Discover more SDGs
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.