13
News
12th November 2021

New Environmental Policy Index for the US

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
913
News
1st October 2021

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Global Governance Centre
213
News
4th March 2021

The diffusion of modern crop varieties during the Green Revolution

Centre for International Environmental Studies
313
Publications
Working paper, 2020

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Research
PhD thesis in progress

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

Dario Piselli
13
Publications
Journal article, 5 February, 2019

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

Susanna Hecht
713
Events
7 October, 2022

Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification

Maison de la Paix
Anne Saab
13
Publications
Blog, 18 August, 2020

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

Katja Doose
Events
5 November, 2019

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

Maison de la Paix
Susanna Hecht
Events
29 June, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
13
News
17th December 2019

Climate crisis: A new decade of consequences

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Teaching
Academic courses

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Marc Hufty
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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