
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).


The Green Transition in Developing Countries

New Zealand’s Approach to Climate Change Policy

Sea-level rise: Displacement, Migration and Human Rights

Climate Change Emergency: The required shift to renewable energy and improvement of engergy efficiency

Book Launch: ‘Narratives of Hunger in International Law’

Mobility, Migration and Climate Change

2030 DFS│Could Better Data Contribute to Making Peace With Nature?

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

Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene

Students Take Action during 2019 UN Youth Climate Summit in New York

Conflict Sensitivity in Climate Financing: Risks and Opportunities Across the Adaptation Planning Cycle
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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.