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.
Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon
A Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Effective and Just Conservation of Intact Areas Under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
African Conservation Futures
The ecosystem approach and the barrier of state sovereignty in environmental treaties
Endangered Earth
CIES Publications News | June 2022
Tipping or Turning Point? Towards a Nature Positive Society by 2030
Environmental Protection in Antarctica; Temptations and Accountability
Youth and multilateral summits in the triple planetary crisis
Sustainability Initiative Days – 17-21 October 2022
Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology
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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.