Events
2 April, 2020

Emergent technologies to advance the protection of the environment

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
News
2nd May 2019

Future of Food: Agriculture, Food Systems and Supply Chains in the Age of Climate Change

Amalia Ribi, Susanna Hecht and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Teaching
Academic courses

International Environmental Law and Policy

Jorge Vinuales
913
News
1st October 2021

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Global Governance Centre
13
Events
6 April, 2023

Australia’s New Climate Policy

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Events
30 March, 2020

Mobility, Migration and Climate Change

Maison de la Paix
Global Migration Centre
Teaching
Academic courses

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Marc Hufty
News
2nd February 2021

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Research
PhD thesis in progress

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Lucy Lu Reimers
713
News
6th August 2020

The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance

Centre for International Environmental Studies, Dario Piselli, Defne Gonenc and Yixian Sun
13
Publications
Blog, 18 August, 2020

Le scepticisme de la Russie vis-à-vis du changement climatique expliqué par son histoire scientifique

Katja Doose
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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