News
27th November 2019

Darkness at Noon: Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

Susanna Hecht
Events
5 December, 2019

Forest conservation, community development and reconciliation in Melanesia. A new paradigm?

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
22nd June 2022

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
13
News
18th August 2020

“An Introduction to the economics of Malthusianism”

Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
News
24th August 2021

Heard the news? Environmental Policy and Clean Investment

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
News
14th April 2021

Leave the dead (trees) alone? Revisiting the ongoing controversy over the Białowieża forest

Dario Piselli
13
Events
27 October, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee: Towards COP27 – Climate Action & the SDGs

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
Research
Research project

Effectiveness of Partnerships for Advancing the SDG: Behavioural Pathways and Impacts

Liliana B. Andonova and Dario Piselli
News
29th August 2023

Green and Digital Futures: Enabling Youth For ‘Just Transitions’

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
13
Events
9 March, 2020

Climatizing the UN Security Council

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
313
Publications
Working paper, 2020

What drives them to invest in the sustainable mobility transition? Evidence from a conjoint experiment on European investors’ policy preferences

Centre for International Environmental Studies
813
Publications
Working paper, August 2018

Soft vs hard governance for labour and environmental commitments in trade agreements: comparing the US and EU approaches

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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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