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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12 October, 2021

Climate World Game – Ahead of COP26

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research
Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen and Joëlle Noailly
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Events
9 May, 2022

The Search for Climate Leadership in a Time of Climate Crisis

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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Publications
Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
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Events
21 November, 2019

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Maison de la paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
1st October 2021

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Global Governance Centre
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Events
31 May, 2022

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Global Governance Centre and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
5 November, 2019

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

Maison de la Paix
Susanna Hecht
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Events
14 February, 2019

Lead Environmental Change!

Valérie d'Hoedt Meyer and Executive Education
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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
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News
11th February 2021

Can liberal democracy outlive climate change?

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Shalini Randeria
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News
1st March 2021

CIES Annual Report 2020

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