
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).


Operationalizing the Notion of Ecosystem Approach in International Law in the Age of Planetary Boundaries

How Development Structures Depoliticise Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South

Future of Food: Agriculture, Food Systems and Supply Chains in the Age of Climate Change

E-Seminar: Covid-19 and Climate Change: Lessons and Challenges

Leave the dead (trees) alone? Revisiting the ongoing controversy over the Białowieża forest

Can International Carbon Markets be Made Compatible with Human Rights?

Taking up the task of democratic oversight for climate (in)action

Climate-resilient crops and international climate change adaptation law

Geneva Energy Conversations – Putting the genie back: Two degrees will be harder than we think

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Environmental Governance – Influence Policies!
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View moreClimate 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.