13
Events
4 April, 2023

Pricing Climate and Biodiversity in Theory and in Practice

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Finance and Development
13
Events
23 March, 2020

Sea-level rise: Displacement, Migration and Human Rights

Maison de la Paix
Global Migration Centre
13
Publications

Book review: Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection

Defne Gonenc
News
8th December 2022

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
News
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
11th April 2019

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Events
27 February, 2020

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

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
News
4th June 2020

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

Shaila Seshia Galvin
13
Events
25 May, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee – Young People driving Climate Action

Global Governance Centre
213
News
17th October 2017

Anne Saab works on law, fear, hunger and climate change

Anne Saab
13
Events
12 November, 2020

Letting External Norms in: How Do Courts Behave When Reviewing Environmental Norms?

Global Governance Centre
Research
PhD thesis in progress

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Lucy Lu Reimers
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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