Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
313
Teaching
Academic courses

Apocalypse Then and Now: Advanced Research Seminar in Understanding Systemic Collapse and Adaptation

Susanna Hecht
213
News
8th June 2021

Synthetic Biology

Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
15th September 2022

CIES Publications News | September 2022

Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
11th April 2019

“Our Plastic Future: Can the Oceans Survive”

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Teaching
Academic courses

International Environmental Law and Policy

Jorge Vinuales
13
Events
14 December, 2020

Burdens of the past, burdens of the future? US climate policy in the world in a time of transition

Susanna Hecht and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
23 September, 2021

Welcome event – Environmental Studies & Research at the Graduate Institute

Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
28th June 2022

CIES Publications News | June 2022

Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
6th August 2024

Local environmental democracy and green transitions

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
13
News
31st May 2023

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

Centre for Finance and Development
Events
21 March, 2023

Futures of Green Democracy

Maison de la Paix
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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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