
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).


Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

The diffusion of modern crop varieties during the Green Revolution

What drives them to invest in the sustainable mobility transition? Evidence from a conjoint experiment on European investors’ policy preferences

Operationalizing the Notion of Ecosystem Approach in International Law in the Age of Planetary Boundaries

Firing up policy, politics and polemics under new and old burning regimes

Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification

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

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Climate crisis: A new decade of consequences

Conservation and Sustainable Development
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