European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition

About us

The European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition is a research body hosted at Sciences Po Paris.

Our mission is to study implementation pathways for sustainable policies and the climate transition in Europe and globally, and to support the EU's ambitious objectives, such as the European Green Deal and Clean Industrial Deal.

We are committed to establishing a broad network of actors who will contribute to research, education, and discussions on important topics such as just transition, climate mitigation and adaptation, energy transition, and green finance.

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Latest news

28 February 2025

Green growth revisited: The EU’s Clean Industrial Deal

By Marc Ringel, Chairholder, and Sarah Thompson, Senior Research Programme Manager, European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition From […]

27 February 2025

10 Years After the Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Todd Stern

Join us for this event co-organised by IDDRI, Sciences Po’s Institute for Environmental Transformations, Centre for European Studies and Comparative […]

18 February 2025

Take part in this semester’s student essay challenge on competitiveness in a low-carbon economy!

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Chair’s student challenge for the 2025 Spring Semester. This essay challenge, […]

14 February 2025

Assessing COP29: Did the ‘Finance COP’ Meet its Lofty Goals?

By Sarah Thompson, PhD Candidate, Université libre de Bruxelles and Senior Research Programme Manager, European Chair for Sustainable Development and […]

10 February 2025

Fostering the Future of Green Finance: A Look Back at the Green Finance Challenge with HSBC Continental Europe

On 22 January 2025, we had the pleasure of celebrating the culmination of the 2024 Green Finance Challenge, an initiative […]

31 January 2025

New Report Highlights Lagging Sustainable Development in Europe

The Europe Sustainable Development Report 2025 (ESDR), published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), has unveiled a troubling […]

27 January 2025

The Just Transition in the European Union

By Linus Mehl, Student Research Assistant for the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, Sciences Po The European […]

16 January 2025

Upcoming Webinar on Climate Finance Effectiveness

Prof. Dr. Mark Purdon (Université du Québec à Montréal) joins the EU-RENEW Webinar Series to present his new book, The […]

14 January 2025

Call for applications for a doctoral contract at Sciences Po in policy evaluation (LIEPP)

Context The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), a research platform at Sciences Po, is calling for applications for […]

16 December 2024

Energy Sufficiency 101

By Sarah Thompson, Senior Research Programme Manager for the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, Sciences Po In […]