SDG 13: Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Centrale Nantes decided to assess the current state of integration of sustainable development into its initial and continuing training courses, and to clarify the contribution of study programmes to sustainable development objectives (Sustainable Development Action Plan - 2021-2025).

Course supervisors have thus pinpointed 2 key SDGs to which their courses contribute.

SDG 13 is one of the most cited for the general engineering programme.

Engineering Programme Specialisations

Engineering Programme Professional Options

Engineering for Ecological Transition

Energy Management at Centrale Nantes
June 1, 2021
The Centrale Nantes campus was built in the 1970s on the current site on rue de la Noë.
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.
Biodiversity on the Centrale Nantes campus
June 1, 2021
Centrale Nantes has a 40-acre (16 hectares) campus with large lawns and wooded areas on the banks of the Erdre River and an offshore test site (SEM-REV off the coast from Le Croisic), managed by the Open-C Foundation.The green spaces on campus are managed by a public contract, supervised by the Facilities Department.
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.
Digital technology
June 18, 2021
Centrale Nantes is committed to reducing the environmental impact of digital technology.
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.
Sustainable development and executive education
July 16, 2021
The courses run by Centrale Nantes Executive Education are designed for adults seeking to acquire or develop professional, technical, transversal and soft skills.
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.
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.

Published on April 19, 2024 Updated on March 4, 2025

2025/26 ACADEMIC YEAR

SDG 13: Climate Action

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