
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).


Apocalypse Then and Now: Advanced Research Seminar in Understanding Systemic Collapse and Adaptation

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

The Right to a Sound Environment

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

CIES Annual Report 2020

COP27: On the Political Economy of Climate Finance and Investment

Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training

ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Geneva SDG Community Coffee – Young People driving Climate Action

Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
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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.