SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production

Actions contributing to SDG 12

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  Promote and encourage a framework for ethical thinking on the responsibility of research and innovation in sustainable development

  July 10, 2025

  Collectively defining ‘responsible innovation’ through a multidisciplinary approach combining engineering sciences and humanities.
• Assess and manage the direct impacts of research

  July 10, 2025

  Centrale Nantes is committed to assessing and reducing its carbon footprint.
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  Link research topics to international and national sustainable development goals, especially energy transition

  July 10, 2025

  Evaluate the contribution of research activities to sustainable development objectives. Support changes in research topics. Develop research topics related to low-carbon technologies.
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  Sustainable development in our study programmes

  July 5, 2021

  Ethics, transdisciplinarity and responsibility are explicitly reflected in the competencies required for a Centrale Nantes engineering degree.
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  Digital technology

  June 18, 2021

  Centrale Nantes is committed to reducing the environmental impact of digital technology.
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  Sustainable mobility

  June 2, 2021

  The Centrale Nantes campus, located at 1 rue de la Noe, is served by public transport (tramway, bus) and several bicycle lanes to facilitate the mobility of the 2,300 students and 600 staff, faculty and startup personnel on campus.
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  Waste Management at Centrale Nantes

  June 1, 2021

  The Centrale Nantes campus hosts a variety of activities that generate office waste, food waste, as well as hazardous waste generated by research and teaching activities in particular.
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  Food

  June 1, 2021

  Food represents 8% of Centrale Nantes' GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions, i.e. 653tCO2eq . This data for 2019 relates to weekday lunches for students and staff.