13
Events
10 October, 2019

Green finance and climate policy

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
Publications
Report, 22 September, 2021

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

Claire Ransom
Events
3–4 October 2018

Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Susanna Hecht
13
News
10th May 2022

2 Degrees of Human Nature: A Search for Climate Leadership

Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Publications
Journal article, September 2018

Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change

Susanna Hecht
News
28th June 2021

The Right to a Sound Environment

Jorge Vinuales
News
22nd June 2022

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
13
Events
9 December, 2019

Climate Crisis: a New Decade of Consequences

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
13
News
16th December 2019

How Development Structures Depoliticise Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South

Marc Hufty
13
Events
4 April, 2023

Pricing Climate and Biodiversity in Theory and in Practice

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Finance and Development
13
Teaching
Academic courses

Climate Science and Policy

Michel Jarraud
13
Events
23 March, 2020

Sea-level rise: Displacement, Migration and Human Rights

Maison de la Paix
Global Migration Centre
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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