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).

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3rd June 2022

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Global Governance Centre and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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11th March 2024

Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Events
30 November, 2023

Protected Areas, Indigenous Communities, Deforestation and the Role of Institutions: Evidence for the Lowlands of Bolivia

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
3–4 October 2018

Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Susanna Hecht
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23 May, 2024

How Can Developing Countries Gather Enough Financing to Undertake Critical Investments in Climate Action? An Exploration.

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Finance and Development
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Events
22 October, 2018

Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Nina Kiderlin
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Events
9 December, 2019

Climate Crisis: a New Decade of Consequences

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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Events
31 October, 2019

Environmental Governance – Lead the change!

Valérie d'Hoedt Meyer
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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
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PhD thesis in progress

Operationalizing the Notion of Ecosystem Approach in International Law in the Age of Planetary Boundaries

Dario Piselli
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4–5 December 2017

A 1000 days of SDGs – Looking ahead

5 December, 2017
Global Health Centre
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Teaching
Academic courses

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Marc Hufty
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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