Events
14 February, 2019

Lead Environmental Change!

Valérie d'Hoedt Meyer and Executive Education
13
News
29th March 2021

Climate change research during the late Cold War

Katja Doose
News
2nd February 2021

New faculty member at CIES: Prof. Bill Adams, Claudio Segré Chair of Conservation and Development

Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Events
5 July, 2022

Strategic Climate Litigation: an effective governance tool to address climate change?

Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
Events
7 October, 2022

Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification

Maison de la Paix
Anne Saab
Publications
Policy, 26 November, 2019

Endangered Earth

Christophe Gironde, Marc Hufty, Ronald Jaubert and Marc Galvin
News
23rd May 2022

Youth and multilateral summits in the triple planetary crisis

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
13
News
3rd May 2021

Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward

Global Governance Centre
Events
31 May, 2022

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Global Governance Centre and Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Events
3 October, 2019

Is the 2015 Paris Agreement likely to achieve its goals? A skeptical assessment

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
17th October 2019

Darkness at Noon Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

Susanna Hecht
713
News
30th June 2020

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Liliana B. Andonova
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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