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.
Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation
The Sustainable Development Goals and International Environmental Law: Normative Value and Challenges for Implementation
Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A
2030 DFS│Could Better Data Contribute to Making Peace With Nature?
The Role of Litigation in Norm Transformation: A Study of Human Right Approaches to Environment
The Right to a Sound Environment
2030 DFS | Could Better Data Contribute To Making Peace With Nature?
Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon
What’s happening on the environment at the WTO? Recent developments and WTO Member initiatives in the lead up to MC 12
Environmental governance and human-nature interactions: A network perspective
Could Better Data Contribute to Making peace with Nature?
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View moreGoal 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.