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4th June 2020

World Environment Day: Learning from COVID-19

Shaila Seshia Galvin
News
6th August 2020

Joëlle Noailly appointed as co-director of the Environmental and Resource Economics journal

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
29 June, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education and Anne Saab
213
News
27th September 2021

“Accounting for Nature” Project Kick-off

Shaila Seshia Galvin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
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10th October 2019

Climate Change Emergency: The required shift to renewable energy and improvement of engergy efficiency

Executive Education
913
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1st October 2021

Briefing for the UN Secretary General and his Senior Management Group

Global Governance Centre
213
Events
22 February, 2022

Becoming Organic: Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies, Shaila Seshia Galvin and Susanna Hecht
213
News
17th October 2017

Anne Saab works on law, fear, hunger and climate change

Anne Saab
Teaching
Academic courses

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Marc Hufty
213
Events
2 October, 2019

Narratives of Hunger in International Law

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
News
16th October 2019

Resource Extraction, Climate Change and the Right to Live Well

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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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