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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Events
9 April, 2019

Climate Change, Social Movements and Peasant Agroecology

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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
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Events
22 October, 2018

Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Nina Kiderlin
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Research
Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen
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Teaching
Academic courses

Development and the Tropics: Political Ecologies of Lost Edens, Green Hells, El Dorados

Susanna Hecht
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Events
27 November, 2018

Catalytic Cooperation

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Publications
Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
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4–5 December 2017

A 1000 days of SDGs – Looking ahead

5 December, 2017
Global Health Centre
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Publications
Working paper, February 2017

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

Dario Piselli
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Teaching
Academic courses

Environmental Economics and Policy

Joëlle Noailly
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Research
In progress

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

Defne Gonenc
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All SDGs
Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
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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