At the Graduate Institute several professors, researchers and students work on SDG 15. The activities range from the Executive Certificate and Master on Environmental Governance and Policy-making, to publications on the effects of migration and urbanization on tropical forests, to research projects on human rights approaches to the environment.
Environmental Governance – Influence Policies!
Environmental Governance & Policy-Making
Goal-setting in an era of mass extinction: a planetary boundary for biosphere integrity in international biodiversity law?
On the Global Pact for the Environment
Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon
Investigating the Trade-Offs and Synergies in Integrating Biodiversity Goals across the UN Systems
The Sardar Sarovar Dam: Drowning out citizens but who benefits?
New CIES Visiting Fellow Valeria Mendez Working on Indicators for a Fair Conservation of Wilderness Areas under the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
2030 DFS | Could Better Data Contribute To Making Peace With Nature?
Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics
African Conservation Futures
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Goal 15 underlines that “preserving diverse forms of life on land requires targeted efforts to protect, restore and promote the conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial and other ecosystems. Goal 15 focuses specifically on managing forests sustainably, restoring degraded lands and successfully combating desertification, reducing degraded natural habitats and ending biodiversity loss” as put by the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Read more about Goal 15.