Student Blog

Buildings account for a significant share of final energy consumption and CO₂ emissions worldwide, yet global retrofit rates remain below 1% of the existing stock per year. As part of a series of student publications from a course on Energy Efficiency, this report examines energy efficiency retrofit policies across ten national and municipal case studies.

In early April, graduate students at SciencesPo’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) had an opportunity to experience a food system stress-testing simulation exercise - designed to give students a more realistic experience of food crisis management and to connect the intellectual content of their classroom lessons with current events.

Europe's electricity prices have surged over 60% since 2019, yet the full potential of renewables to bring them down remains untapped. In our new student blog entry Giorgia Ravera examines the market, infrastructure, and regulatory barriers standing in the way — and puts forward six concrete recommendations to finally unlock the price benefits of clean energy.

By Anlin ZHOU, Celine IP, Kanchan KARGWAL, Marissa RUIZ, Thomas YUE

By Jakob BILAN, Robert BIRKMAYER, Ewa JAROSZ, Etienne ORIOT, Clara Simões COELHO

By Xiyan CHEN, Maria-Doriana GHEORGHE, Marianna PYKA, Cosimo SCOCCIANTI, and Tugay ÜNLÜ

By Marta ANTUNES, Agathe BLANQUET, Michael GILLESBERGER, Cosimo ZATTI and Xinpei ZHOU

By Marie Poff

By Titouan CHALAVON, Clara KLINT and Barbora RAPANTOVA

By Darina DAKMAK, Florian PILEYRE and Egor POLISHCHUK

By Catalina ORDONEZ, Hunter HUBBARD, Irène THOMAS and Emilie GAYCHET

By Gabriella COHEN, Lou DUCARTERON, Alice GALES, Ewa JAROSZ, Giorgia RAVERA and Katharina REISENBAUER

By Clara BERNARD, Shrinidi Nedumaram LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Sofia BENCURIKOVA, Vishal Vidya PRABAKARAN and Juana PERDOMENICO

By Rose AUPEPIN DE LAMOTHE-DREUZY, Salika MEHTA and Zélie POTTECHER

By Alessia DI ROSA, Mara FELICE, Ornella FRESQUET, Claire OBERMEYER, Lola POTTIER and Emily VOGEL

By Aniya GRILLO RICCELLI, Ilham CORADIDI, Eva FERRER CORRAL, Marti SERRA FIGAROLA and Carolina LEON SANTIAGO

By Aleksejs POPOVS

By Eugénie BAUDOT

By Seamas PORTER

By Adrien BEAUFILS, Ginevra BORGHI, Oscar BRUNZELL, Serena PENNAROLI, Alix POUGET-ABADIE, Dilhan SCHRÖRS