
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.


Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

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

The Sardar Sarovar Dam: Drowning out citizens but who benefits?

Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics

The Right to a Sound Environment

People in motion, forests in transition: Trends in migration, urbanization, and remittances and their effects on tropical forests

CIES Publications News | June 2022

What’s happening on the environment at the WTO? Recent developments and WTO Member initiatives in the lead up to MC 12

Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon

Environmental governance and human-nature interactions: A network perspective
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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.