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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2 April, 2020

Emergent technologies to advance the protection of the environment

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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27th November 2019

Darkness at Noon: Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

Susanna Hecht
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12 April, 2018

The power of location for environmental monitoring and decision making

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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The Role of Litigation in Norm Transformation: A Study of Human Right Approaches to Environment

Defne Gonenc
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Climate Change and International Law

Anne Saab
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21st November 2019

Diversity, Land and Right of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Susanna Hecht
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Topics in Resource and Development Economics

Joëlle Noailly
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17th October 2017

Anne Saab works on law, fear, hunger and climate change

Anne Saab
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21 November, 2019

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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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21 November, 2019

European Union Climate Action

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

Darkness at Noon Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

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