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).

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27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
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22 June, 2021

Could Better Data Contribute to Making peace with Nature?

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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26 March, 2020

Green Fiscal Multiplier and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Publications
Report, 22 September, 2021

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

Claire Ransom
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News
2nd February 2021

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
17 October, 2022

COP27: On the Political Economy of Climate Finance and Investment

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies and Centre for Finance and Development
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Publications
Journal article, 28 December, 2018

International law and feeding the world in times of climate change

Anne Saab
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News
18th December 2023

A Reflection on COP28 and the Transition Away from Fossil-Fuels

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
21 March, 2023

Peak Water: the Future of Water Resources from Glaciated Mountains

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Publications
Journal article, 5 February, 2019

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

Susanna Hecht
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14 December, 2020

Burdens of the past, burdens of the future? US climate policy in the world in a time of transition

Susanna Hecht and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Publications

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

Defne Gonenc
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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