
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).


Resource extraction, climate change and the right to live well

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Environmental Governance – Lead the change!

The Domestic Politics of Transnational Climate Change Governance

Climate Change, Social Movements and Peasant Agroecology

Beyond Conflict: Alternative Social Responses to Climate Change

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Transnational Climate Change Governance

The Point of No Return: Is There Still Time for COP27 to Make a Difference?

Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics

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.