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

2 February 2024

New podcast episode with Chair founder Dr Shiv Someshwar on cities and climate action

How do urbanization and rural development impact communities differently? How can we make public policy and enlightened self-interest advance climate […]

18 December 2023

COP28 & the future of fossil fuels: A historic agreement and hopes ahead.

By Valeria de los Casares, Research Assistant for the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition Introduction – Expectations […]

29 November 2023

Conference: Climate transition in a fractured world: COP28 outcomes and the EU’s path. 13 December

Join us in this event co-organised with the European Investment Bank (EIB): On the last day of COP28, our three […]

22 November 2023

Workshop: Designing an outline for a new climate mitigation modelling framework.

This workshop aims at debunking what does not work with existing dominant modeling framework and to develop an outline for […]

3 November 2023

The Future of European Energy Efficiency Policies – Analysis of selected aspects

Energy efficiency is a key pillar of the European Green Deal. While energy efficiency policies are necessary to deliver on […]

3 November 2023

Climate Transitions: A Conference for a New Generation of Climate-Conscious Global Leaders

Sciences Po, the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Guelph have been working over […]

18 October 2023

Take part in this semester’s student essay challenge on just transition policy!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new edition of the Chair’s student challenge, this time for the […]

13 October 2023

CERI Seminar: « Outsourcing » environmental impacts of consumption : Sustainability Governance of Global Supply Chains

This event is organised in the framework of the ‘Séminaire Environnement et Relations Internationales’ organised by the Centre for International […]

10 October 2023

Executive training for the African Carbon Markets Initiative

Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) is delighted to launch the first edition of an Executive training looking […]

6 October 2023

Blog: The challenge of financing nature-based solutions in Europe

Since the 2010s, nature-based solutions (NBS) have been rising in the agendas of policymakers as tools to simultaneously advance economic, […]