
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).


Emergent technologies to advance the protection of the environment

The power of location for environmental monitoring and decision making

Peak Water: the Future of Water Resources from Glaciated Mountains

Katja Doose’s article on the scepticism of Russian Climate Science

Pricing Climate and Biodiversity in Theory and in Practice

Climate World Game – Ahead of COP26

The ecosystem approach and the barrier of state sovereignty in environmental treaties

CIES Publications News | September 2022

Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics

Endangered Earth

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