
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).


Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification

How Development Structures Depoliticise Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South

Sustainability Initiative Days – 17-21 October 2022

Climat: les jeunes manifestants peuvent-ils encore peser sur les négociations pendant les COP?

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

CIES Publications News | September 2022

Conceptualizing the Arctic: A Zone of Peace or a Zone of Conflict?

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

COP27: On the Political Economy of Climate Finance and Investment

Structural conditions for novelty: the introduction of new environmental clauses to the trade regime complex

Environmental impact assessment for climate change policy with the simulation-based integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE
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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.