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, green finance, climate mitigation and adaptation, energy transition, and climate finance.

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Latest news

25 November 2025

Launch of the 2025 World Energy Outlook at Paris Energy Week

Ten years after clean energy was integrated into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the decarbonisation of the global energy sector […]

18 November 2025

Chronicles from the field: COP30 in Belém, Brazil

This year, as we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement and the 30th anniversary of […]

14 November 2025

Designing climate cooperation in a fractured world

By Marc Ringel, Chairholder at the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, Sciences Po and Sarah Thompson, PhD […]

13 November 2025

Issue 3 of the Sciences Po Energy Review

Read and download the third issue of the Energy Review here The Sciences Po Energy Review is a graduate student-led publication to […]

9 November 2025

European Investment Bank Climate Hackathon 2025

The inaugural EIB Climate Survey Hackathon brought together students from Sciences Po, the University of Toronto, and the University of […]

7 November 2025

Sciences Po Energy Review: Launch of the EU–Canada Energy Relations Special Issue

Launch & Networking Event – 13 November 2025 | Sciences Po, Paris At a time when energy cooperation is redefining […]

31 October 2025

Climate Obstruction in the UNFCCC

By Sarah Thompson, PhD Candidate, Université libre de Bruxelles and Senior Research Programme Manager, European Chair for Sustainable Development and […]

5 October 2025

Applications are open for the 2025 Green Finance Challenge with HSBC Continental Europe!

All current students of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and the École d’Affaires Publiques (EAP) are invited to […]

22 September 2025

Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical Minerals

The Paris School of International Affairs is hosting a screening of the recent documentary Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical […]

3 September 2025

Call for Applications: Climate Hackathon with the European Investment Bank and CARE

Are you passionate about climate change and public policy? Do you want to apply your data analysis skills to real-world […]