Events
29 April, 2021

Can International Carbon Markets be Made Compatible with Human Rights?

Executive Education and Anne Saab
13
Publications

Book review: Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection

Defne Gonenc
13
Publications
Blog, 18 August, 2020

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

Katja Doose
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
31st May 2023

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

Centre for Finance and Development
13
News
14th June 2022

A macroeconomic approach to global land use policy

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
13
Events
9 March, 2020

Climatizing the UN Security Council

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
13
Events
25 May, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee – Young People driving Climate Action

Global Governance Centre
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
313
Teaching
Academic courses

Apocalypse Then and Now: Advanced Research Seminar in Understanding Systemic Collapse and Adaptation

Susanna Hecht
13
Events
28 May, 2024

Book Launch for Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies and Global Governance Centre
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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