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The Sciences Po Energy Review is a graduate student-led publication to advance dialogue about energy.

The European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, along with the European Investment Bank and Sciences Po’s Institute for Environmental Transformations, hosted an event to discuss the climate stakes ahead of COP29, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11-22 November 2024.

By Felix Schulz, Technische Universität Darmstadt

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

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Chair’s student challenge for the 2025 Spring Semester. This essay challenge, coordinated in partnership with the European Investment Bank, will be on the topic: ‘Competitiveness in a low-carbon economy: the role of innovation and green technologies in maintaining the competitive advantage’.

On 22 January 2025, we had the pleasure of celebrating the culmination of the 2024 Green Finance Challenge, an initiative launched by the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition in partnership with HSBC Continental Europe.

On 22 January 2025, we had the pleasure of celebrating the culmination of the 2024 Green Finance Challenge, an initiative launched by the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition in partnership with HSBC Continental Europe.

By Paula ESPADA BLANCO, Camille FORZY, Sara LEAL DE MATOS-POWELL, Leon PETERS & Ole RINGEN

Covering 41 nations – including all 27 EU member states, nine EU candidate countries, four European Free Trade Agreement nations, and the United Kingdom – the report underscores the urgency for the new EU leadership to recommit to these global targets.

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

The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), a research platform at Sciences Po, is calling for applications for a doctoral contract in Public Policy Evaluation.

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

The Sciences Po Energy Review is a publication to advance dialogue about energy.

It’s COP time again. For the 29th time, Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (or UNFCCC) are meeting to discuss how to reach the Convention’s ultimate objective of preventing “dangerous” interference with the climate system. While not quite as big as the record-breaking COP28 in Dubai last year, which attracted around 100,000 attendees from around the world, COP29 is still a mega-event, with an estimated 30 to 40,000 participants.

The European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, along with the European Investment Bank and Sciences Po’s Institute for Environmental Transformations, hosted an event to discuss the climate stakes ahead of COP29, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11-22 November 2024.

Launched under Sciences Po’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), the goal of the PIREES55 project is to shed light on the enabling mechanisms needed to reach the proposed targets of the European Commission’s “Fit for 55” legislative package in the energy efficiency field.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 4th edition of the Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, in which our Chairholder, Prof Marc Ringel, has authored the chapter, “European Climate Policy and the Global Context“, alongside Karen Pittel, Dirk Rübbelke, Stefan Vögele & Irina Silina.

All current students of Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and the École d’Affaires Publiques (EAP) are invited to take part in the Chair’s 2024 autumn semester student challenge.

By Elin ADOLFSSON, Margherita CAMURRI, Adrian GAGU, Dafina MARASHI, Kira PAKARINEN

By Llauré BRAUN, Carolina GONÇALVES, Pia Marie KEPLER, Yihong LIU