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News
9th June 2020

“The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions”

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Marc Hufty
News
15th September 2022

CIES Publications News | September 2022

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Teaching
Academic courses

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

Susanna Hecht
Events
14 October, 2019

Resource extraction, climate change and the right to live well

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
213
News
17th October 2017

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

Anne Saab
News
6th August 2020

Joëlle Noailly appointed as co-director of the Environmental and Resource Economics journal

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
29 June, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
News
3rd June 2022

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Global Governance Centre and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
Publications
Report, 22 September, 2021

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

Claire Ransom
News
7th October 2022

The ecosystem approach and the barrier of state sovereignty in environmental treaties

Dario Piselli
213
News
4th March 2021

The diffusion of modern crop varieties during the Green Revolution

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