
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, Social Movements and Peasant Agroecology

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

Narratives of Hunger in International Law

2030 DFS | Could Better Data Contribute To Making Peace With Nature?

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

The Future of Food Security

Green finance and climate policy

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

A 1000 days of SDGs – Looking ahead

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Conflict Sensitivity in Climate Financing: Risks and Opportunities Across the Adaptation Planning Cycle
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View moreClimate 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.