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).

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Publications
Book chapter, 10 February, 2020

‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘

Liliana B. Andonova
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News
5th April 2019

Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change

Anne Saab
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Events
30 March, 2020

Mobility, Migration and Climate Change

Maison de la Paix
Global Migration Centre
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News
29th June 2021

2030 DFS│Could Better Data Contribute to Making Peace With Nature?

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
30 September–4 October 2024

Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training

Ljubljana
Executive Education
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News
7th July 2020

Global Challenges: What hope for the environment?

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research
PhD thesis

The Role of Litigation in Norm Transformation: A Study of Human Right Approaches to Environment

Defne Gonenc
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Events
14 November, 2022

Healthcare and Climate Change: Victim or perpetrator?

Maison de la Paix
Global Health Centre
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Events
21 March, 2023

Peak Water: the Future of Water Resources from Glaciated Mountains

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research
Research project

The Domestic Politics of Transnational Climate Change Governance

Liliana B. Andonova and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
6th August 2024

Local environmental democracy and green transitions

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Teaching
Academic courses

Apocalypse Then and Now: Advanced Research Seminar in Understanding Systemic Collapse and Adaptation

Susanna Hecht
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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