Environmental Transformations

In July 2024, the Centre for European and Comparative Policy Studies hosted a 1,200-strong urban planning research conference. This event gave rise to two group projects in 2024-2025.

In March 2025, Sciences Po students had the privilege of engaging in a discussion with the eminent scholar in Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, and former director of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi, India.

42 countries are still experiencing “alarming” or “serious” hunger status... Interview with Adjunct Professor Chris Hadergorn about the Nutrition for Growth Summit.

What is the legacy of COP21? Why was its Agreement such a landmark climate accord? A look at the past, and the future, by some of its architects and expert researchers.

Sciences Po and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) are launching a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship (fixed-term contract of one year) as part of the TIERED ExcellencES project. In the context of this call for applications, Sciences Po and INED wish to jointly develop research around one of the two following themes: (1) the links between work, digital technology and health and (2) the relationship between the environment and family behaviour. Deadline : 15 April 2025

The second edition of the seminar took place with students from the Urban School and from our European alliance, CIVICA. Learn more.

40 master's students from the Urban School took part in this field trip to Kenya. Read the travel diary of Mastercard Foundation Scholar Yussif Sulemana.

Deadline for application : 31/01/2025

One year after its launch, the Institute offers you an overview of all the initiatives undertaken at Sciences Po in the field of environmental transformations.

Should the focus be on reducing plastic production or recycling? Is inclusive recycling an option? An analysis by Manisha Anantharaman.

The ministers have arrived at the COP and the discussions are moving from the technical to the political level. Discover a behind-the-scenes report by researcher Carole Klöck.

With COP29 around the corner, all eyes will be on Baku. Learn more about the complex religious situation in Azerbaijan with visiting scholar Altay Goyushow.

"If the world burns, we all burn together": meet a student of the Master in Environmental Policy at the Paris School of International Affairs.

Why is the risk of not taking action so colossal? Meet a student of the Master in Environmental Policy at the Paris School of International Affairs.

How can we work towards a decarbonised world? Meet a student from the Master in International Energy Transition at the Paris School of International Affairs.

1,200 experts to combine urban planning and social sciences for a fair and sustainable future: a look back at the 36th Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning.

What if a card game could help create sustainable urban environments? Interview with a Kuwaiti researcher who spent two years at CERI.

Ecological transition, water management, urban inclusion: here's a look back at this highlight of the Urban School's group projects.

From Sciences Po/HEC dual degree to circular economy policy project officer at the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment.