News
3rd September 2020

Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics

Susanna Hecht and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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24th September 2021

Welcome Event with CIES and EC

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
27th September 2021

“Accounting for Nature” Project Kick-off

Shaila Seshia Galvin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
813
News
25th October 2023

Environmental Protection & Economic Growth: Challenges & Opportunities

Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
11th April 2019

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Research
Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen and Joëlle Noailly
Events
18 October, 2021

Tipping or Turning Point? Towards a Nature Positive Society by 2030

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Publications
Journal article, January 2020

The hazards of mainstreaming climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions

Marc Hufty
213
News
4th March 2021

The diffusion of modern crop varieties during the Green Revolution

Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
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5th October 2021

New SNIS Project for Prof Marc Hufty, “Green Dealings – Negotiating Lithium Between South America and Europe for Batteries that Fuel a Just Energy Transition”

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Marc Hufty
News
8th December 2022

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

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