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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Teaching
Academic courses

Climate Science and Policy

Michel Jarraud
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All SDGs
Events
21 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – Environment and the Future of Partnerships

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
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Events
16 May, 2024

Does Carbon Capture & Storage Mitigate Carbon Premium? Evidence from Patents

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
17th November 2022

The Point of No Return: Is There Still Time for COP27 to Make a Difference?

Jorge Vinuales
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Events
12 November, 2020

Letting External Norms in: How Do Courts Behave When Reviewing Environmental Norms?

Global Governance Centre
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News
6th August 2020

The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
6th December 2022

Joëlle Noailly ‘In Conversation With’ Climate Experts

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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Teaching
Academic courses

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

Susanna Hecht
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Events
15 December, 2022

Redressing Environmental Harm: a Corporate Sovereignty Problem?

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

The Domestic Politics of Transnational Climate Change Governance

Liliana B. Andonova and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
4 December, 2023

World Climate Game with Prof Joëlle Noailly

Maison de la Paix
Joëlle Noailly
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Research
Research project in progress

Peasant Mobilization, Peasant Responses to Climate Change

Guliver Rojas
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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