13
News
19th October 2021

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
News
5th July 2019

Public Lecture by Mr Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General “Climate: Reclaiming Our Common Future”

Vanessa Valerio
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
613
Events
21 March, 2023

Peak Water: the Future of Water Resources from Glaciated Mountains

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
Events
27 October, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee: Towards COP27 – Climate Action & the SDGs

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
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
13
Events
11 May, 2023

A Legal Analysis of Carbon Leakage Policies

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
17 November, 2015

Geneva Energy Conversations: Fossil Fuels in Sustainable Energy Systems

Maison de la paix, Geneva
Valérie d'Hoedt Meyer
13
Events
4 June, 2024

ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Online
Anne Saab
13
Events
17 November, 2022

Imagined Landscapes: Forestscapes as Spaces for [Re]negotiating Value in an Era of Climate Change

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
13
News
9th June 2020

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Marc Hufty
13
Events
6 April, 2023

Australia’s New Climate Policy

Maison de la Paix
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