
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).


A macroeconomic approach to global land use policy

2 Degrees of Human Nature: A Search for Climate Leadership

Lead Environmental Change!

Sea-level rise: Displacement, Migration and Human Rights

Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training

Catalytic Cooperation

Leveraging the Power-Wielder: De Jure Accountability of International Organizations

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

CIES Publications News | September 2022

CIES Annual Report 2020

Redressing Environmental Harm: a Corporate Sovereignty Problem?
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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.