
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).


Forest conservation, community development and reconciliation in Melanesia. A new paradigm?

Climate Crisis – Out of Balance: Confronting Equity and Sustainability

Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda

The hazards of mainstreaming climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions

2030 DFS | Sports, Technology and Innovation

Operationalizing the Notion of Ecosystem Approach in International Law in the Age of Planetary Boundaries

Climate change research during the late Cold War

The Road after Glasgow

A Legal Analysis of Carbon Leakage Policies

Leave the dead (trees) alone? Revisiting the ongoing controversy over the Białowieża forest

Climatizing the UN Security Council
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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.