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).

1113
News
2nd February 2021

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
View News
81316
News
29th August 2023

Green and Digital Futures: Enabling Youth For ‘Just Transitions’

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
View News
1315
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
View Conference
1316
Events
21 March, 2023

Futures of Green Democracy

Maison de la Paix
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
View Panel discussion / Debate
13
News
24th April 2024

Climat: les jeunes manifestants peuvent-ils encore peser sur les négociations pendant les COP?

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
View News
All SDGs
Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
View Seminar
6781112131415
Teaching
Executive education

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Executive Education
View Executive education
713
Publications
Book chapter, 10 February, 2020

‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘

Liliana B. Andonova
View Book chapter
131415
Events
31 August, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A

Executive Education and Anne Saab
View Webinar
11131415
Events
22 October, 2018

Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Nina Kiderlin
View Panel discussion / Debate
23812131617
Events
4–5 December 2017

A 1000 days of SDGs – Looking ahead

5 December, 2017
Global Health Centre
View Other
131415
Events
31 May, 2022

Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability

Global Governance Centre and Centre for International Environmental Studies
View Conference
Close

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.

Close
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