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 European Green Deal’s ambitious objectives. To this end, 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.

Latest news

8 February 2023

Summary of the Workshop: “Policy Instruments for the energy efficiency sector: Enabling mechanisms for a “FIT for 55”

The Chair organised jointly with LIEPP’s Environmental Policies Research Group, Cambridge University and the European Investment Bank a stakeholder workshop […]
2 February 2023

The Chair is now collaborating with UNESCO Green Citizens!

The Chair is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with UNESCO Green Citizens. UNESCO Green Citizens (UGC) is a […]
24 January 2023

Fall 2022 Essay competition winners go to Luxembourg

Can environmental, social and governance investing (ESG) contribute to financing sustainable development? This is the question Sciences Po students had […]
7 December 2022

EU work programme: What’s on for sustainable development and climate transition?

By Marc Ringel As part of its better regulation requirements, the European Commission regularly publishes and updates its work programme, […]
23 November 2022

Workshop: Policy Instruments for the energy
efficiency sector: enabling mechanisms for the EU‘s
“FIT for 55”

The Chair organises jointly with LIEPP’s Environmental Policies Research Group, Cambridge University and the European Investment Bank a stakeholder workshop […]
21 November 2022

Big Ocean States at COP27

By Carola Klöck Small island states – or rather, Big Ocean States (BOS) – are among those most affected by […]
16 November 2022

Report on Climate Action shared with G20 Summit Leaders

The Independent Task Force on Creative Climate Action shared its report with G20 Summit leaders, meeting in Bali on 15-16 […]
18 October 2022

Strategic energy and climate policy planning: Lessons learned from
European energy efficiency policies

By Marina Economidou, Marc Ringel, Michaela Valentova, Luca Castellazzi, PaoloZancanella, Paolo Zangheri, Tiago Serrenho, Daniele Paci, Paolo Bertoldi Energy Policy […]
18 October 2022

CERI Seminar on Environment and International Relations

Since 2013, the Center for International Studies (CERI) hosts a research group onenvironmental and climate-related issues. The “Environment and international […]
29 September 2022

European Sustainable Energy Week: Clean energy for Europe’s climate transition

By Marc Ringel With almost 80% of European greenhouse gas emissions being related to energy production and use [1], the […]