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).
Emergent technologies to advance the protection of the environment
The Right to a Sound Environment
“The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions”
Resource Extraction, Climate Change and the Right to Live Well
Environmental Governance – Lead the change!
Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Climate, Justice and Education
The ecosystem approach and the barrier of state sovereignty in environmental treaties
Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests
“An Introduction to the economics of Malthusianism”
The Future of Food Security
Discover more SDGs
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.