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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Working paper, February 2017

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

Dario Piselli
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Events
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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PhD thesis in progress

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Lucy Lu Reimers
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News
17th October 2017

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

Anne Saab
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Events
14 November, 2022

Healthcare and Climate Change: Victim or perpetrator?

Maison de la Paix
Global Health Centre
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Events
18 October, 2021

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

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
2 October, 2019

Narratives of Hunger in International Law

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
31st May 2023

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

Centre for Finance and Development
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20th September 2019

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

Anne Saab
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3rd June 2021

Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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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22nd June 2022

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
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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