
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.


International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Incentivizing conservation in de facto community-owned forests

Effectiveness of Partnerships for Advancing the SDG: Behavioural Pathways and Impacts

Turkey’s largest environmental legal case

Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon

Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

Geneva Energy Conversations – Putting the genie back: Two degrees will be harder than we think

Nature’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Endangered Earth

International Environmental Law and Policy
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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.