
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).


Can liberal democracy outlive climate change?

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

Imagined Landscapes: Forestscapes as Spaces for [Re]negotiating Value in an Era of Climate Change

Climates and History: What the Past Can Tell Us about the Present and the Future

The Future of Food Security

Narratives of Hunger in International Law

New faculty member at CIES: Prof. Bill Adams, Claudio Segré Chair of Conservation and Development

Climate Science and Policy

2030 DFS│Could Better Data Contribute to Making Peace With Nature?

Is the 2015 Paris Agreement likely to achieve its goals? A skeptical assessment

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