
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.


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

Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing

Conservation and Sustainable Development

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

Welcome event – Environmental Studies & Research at the Graduate Institute

Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon

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

2030 DFS | Could Better Data Contribute To Making Peace With Nature?

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

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

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A
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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.