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Events
25 May, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee – Young People driving Climate Action

Global Governance Centre
713
News
24th August 2021

Heard the news? Environmental Policy and Clean Investment

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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
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
Events
5 November, 2019

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

Maison de la Paix
Susanna Hecht
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
News
27th June 2024

Multilateralism, the climate crisis, and democracy

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
Events
27 September, 2021

What’s happening on the environment at the WTO? Recent developments and WTO Member initiatives in the lead up to MC 12

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
13
Events
27 October, 2022

Geneva SDG Community Coffee: Towards COP27 – Climate Action & the SDGs

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre
213
News
7th October 2020

Accounting for Nature: Agriculture and Mitigation in the Era of Global Climate Change – New SNF grant for Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin

Shaila Seshia Galvin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Events
30 March, 2023

A Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Effective and Just Conservation of Intact Areas Under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
713
News
5th October 2021

New SNIS Project for Prof Marc Hufty, “Green Dealings – Negotiating Lithium Between South America and Europe for Batteries that Fuel a Just Energy Transition”

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Marc Hufty
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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