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.
Planetary Boundaries and Regime Interaction in International Law
Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene
Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing
Joëlle Noailly appointed as co-director of the Environmental and Resource Economics journal
Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology
2nd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Biodiversité: entre science et politique
A Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Effective and Just Conservation of Intact Areas Under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Welcome Event with CIES and EC
African Conservation Futures
Geneva Energy Conversations: Fossil Fuels in Sustainable Energy Systems
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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.