13
Events
4 June, 2024

ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Online
Anne Saab
13
News
5th July 2019

Public Lecture by Mr Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General “Climate: Reclaiming Our Common Future”

Vanessa Valerio
713
News
24th August 2021

Heard the news? Environmental Policy and Clean Investment

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
Publications
Policy, 26 November, 2019

Endangered Earth

Christophe Gironde, Marc Hufty, Ronald Jaubert and Marc Galvin
213
News
5th April 2019

Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change

Anne Saab
13
News
20th September 2019

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

Anne Saab
213
News
7th October 2020

Accounting for Nature: Agriculture and Mitigation in the Era of Global Climate Change – New SNF grant for Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin

Shaila Seshia Galvin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
News
31st May 2023

Climate Policy and the Economy: Evidence from Europe’s Carbon Pricing Initiatives

Centre for Finance and Development
13
Events
27 October, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee: Towards COP27 – Climate Action & the SDGs

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
Events
13 September, 2022

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A

Executive Education
Events
21 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – Environment and the Future of Partnerships

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
213
News
8th June 2021

Synthetic Biology

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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.

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Target 13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

Target 13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

Target 13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Target 13.a

Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

Target 13.b

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities