Publications
Journal article, October 2016

The Sustainable Development Goals and International Environmental Law: Normative Value and Challenges for Implementation

Dario Piselli
Events
21 February, 2020

Environmental Governance – Influence Policies!

Maison de la Paix
Valérie d'Hoedt Meyer and Executive Education
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
Research
Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen and Joëlle Noailly
13
News
4th June 2020

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

Shaila Seshia Galvin
News
26th May 2021

Le rôle grandissant des big tech dans la gouvernance environnementale

Executive Education
13
Events
12 March, 2020

Negotiating environmental protection in trade agreements: a regime shift or a tactical linkage?

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
30th April 2024

Democracy and Climate

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
213
Events
9 April, 2019

Climate Change, Social Movements and Peasant Agroecology

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
27th November 2019

Darkness at Noon: Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

Susanna Hecht
13
News
9th June 2020

“The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions”

Centre for International Environmental Studies and 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
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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