Latest student activities

As education is central to the mission of the Chair, our team has launched several efforts to encourage students’ involvement in sustainable development and climate outside of their courses.

The Chair’s Team offers the following student activities:

Student blog
Student challenges and essay competitions
Student-led podcasts

More information on our activities will be shared here regularly.

15 March 2022

Consumers are demanding small and affordable EVs – why traditional automakers are supplying the opposite

By Johan Bracht Analysts frequently mention Electric Vehicles (EV) cost as one of the main barriers to large-scale EV uptake. […]

4 March 2022

Discussion Highlights: Chair and Students’ Roundtable #3

“Taking the model that we have at land, and applying it at sea, clearly doesn’t work. It is a very […]

18 February 2022

Ecocide: from individual to institutional accountability

By Marin Pitavy The term ecocide first appeared during the Vietnam War to describe the American operation using “Agent Orange”. […]

26 November 2021

Why Europe needs to answer calls for climate justice

By Fatim Selina Diaby This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the […]

26 November 2021

A social project for the European Union

By Marin Pitavy This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic […]

26 November 2021

Reconciling climate policy and justice through domestic tradable carbon quotas

By Antoine Richet This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic […]

26 November 2021

Resilience for Peace

By Damien Turlay This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic […]

24 November 2021

Discussion highlights: Chair and Students Roundtable #2

One needs to ask: “Is it just economic productivity you are measuring, or did you look also at the human […]

18 October 2021

Discussion Highlights: Chair and Students’ Roundtable #1

“Biodiversity and climate are two sides of the same coin! We have been saying that for many years now and […]

4 October 2021

No More “Torn Trousers”: Public-Private Cooperation, an Approachable Way for Financial Inclusion in the Pacific

By Chen Jinyu “Jinyu, if we can source more funding from public and private financiers, we can facilitate more small […]