
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 Science and Policy

The post-political link between gender and climate change: the case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Action Days for the SDGs – Environment and the Future of Partnerships

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

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

Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Environmental impact assessment for climate change policy with the simulation-based integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE
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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.