Teaching
Academic courses

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Marc Hufty
13
Events
4 December, 2023

World Climate Game with Prof Joëlle Noailly

Maison de la Paix
Joëlle Noailly
213
News
15th November 2019

The Future of Food Security

Centre for International Environmental Studies
Research
PhD thesis in progress

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Lucy Lu Reimers
News
17th October 2019

Darkness at Noon Deforestation in the New Authoritarian Era

Susanna Hecht
13
Events
15 December, 2022

Redressing Environmental Harm: a Corporate Sovereignty Problem?

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
11th February 2021

Can liberal democracy outlive climate change?

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Shalini Randeria
13
News
12th November 2021

New Environmental Policy Index for the US

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
13
Events
16 April, 2020

E-Seminar: Covid-19 and Climate Change: Lessons and Challenges

Maison de la Paix
Joëlle Noailly
13
Events
25 May, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee – Young People driving Climate Action

Global Governance Centre
13
News
20th September 2019

The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Action

Anne Saab
13
Publications
Journal article, September 2018

Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change

Susanna Hecht
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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