Work in the field of environmental economics: biodiversity, climate, pollution, etc.
Two semesters
Information
Skills
Ability to fulfill all professional positions in decision making, economic analysis and expertise related to environment and climate issues
Objectives
The objective of the “Economy of Sustainable Development and the Environment” course is to offer training dealing with all environmental issues from an economic point of view. Graduates must have the skills to design strategies to address energy and environmental challenges (e.g. climate change, overexploitation of natural resources or even water and air pollution). They must be able to integrate these strategies into production, service and consulting professions. They must also have the academic knowledge allowing the most motivated to integrate private and public research. And be able to integrate national and international decision-making centers (civil service, communities, international organizations).
Calendar
Capacity
Available Places
Target Audience and Entry Requirements
Validated Master 1 or Bac + 4 Engineering courses, Business School, Sciences Po, etc.
Application Period(s)
From 15/03/2026 to 30/05/2026
Supporting documents
Compulsory supporting documents
Supporting documents (TOEFL, TOEIC, certificate of a teacher ...) of a level of a foreign language.
Motivation letter.
All transcripts of the years / semesters validated since the high school diploma at the date of application.
Certificate of English level.
Curriculum Vitae.
Detailed description and hourly volume of courses taken since the beginning of the university program.
Document indicating the list of local M2 choices available here : https://urlz.fr/i3Lo.
Additional supporting documents
Rank of previous year and size of the promotion.
Certificate of French (compulsory for non-French speakers).
VAP file (obligatory for all persons requesting a valuation of the assets to enter the diploma).
Supporting documents :
- Residence permit stating the country of residence of the first country
- Or receipt of request stating the country of first asylum
- Or document from the UNHCR granting refugee status
- Or receipt of refugee status request delivered in France
- Or residence permit stating the refugee status delivered in France
- Or document stating subsidiary protection in France or abroad
- Or document stating temporary protection in France or abroad.
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refresher in Statistics and Probability | 0 | Semestre 1 | 24 | ||||||||
| Refreshers course in microeconomics | 0 | Semester 1 | |||||||||
| Macroeconomics | 0 | Semester 1 | |||||||||
| Environmental Science and Energy | 0 | Semester 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economie de la transition écologique | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economic Models, Environmental Issues, and Innovation | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Non-market valuation methods | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Advanced natural resource economics | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Econometrics | 3 | Semester 1 | |||||||||
| Sustainable growth and degrowth | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| UE libre "Fondamentaux" dans le cursus Ingénieur CentraleSupélec, ENSAE, Mines, ENPC, ENSAE | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Environmental policy instruments | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Econometrics: Concepts and Applications | 3 | Semester 1 | 13 | 7 | |||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Accounting | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Experimental and Behavioral Economics | 2 | Semester 1 | 15 | 5 | |||||||
| UE libre "Méthodes" dans le cursus ingénieur CentraleSupélec, ENSAE, ENPC, Mines, Ponts. | 2 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Computable general equilibrium modeling | 2 | Semester 1 | |||||||||
| Investing in an uncertain environment | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics of risk and uncertainty | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management de l'environnement et responsabilité sociale des entreprises | 2 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Ethics, profits and corporate social and environmental impact | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| UE libre Thématique dans le cursus ingénieur CentraleSupélec, ENSAE ou ENPC | 2 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Applied environmental economics and policy: Case studies | 2 | Semester 1 | 10 | 10 | |||||||
| Economics of agriculture and bioenergy | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics and water policies | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Forest economics | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services | 2 | Semester 1 | 10 | 10 | |||||||
| Climate economics | 2 | Semester 1 | |||||||||
| Traitement massif de données et IA | 2 | Semestre 1 | 24 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UE libre "Formation par la recherche" dans le cursus ingénieur CentraleSupélec, ENPC, ENSAE, Mines ou Ponts | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Environmental Regulations | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Organization of sustainable food systems | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Quantitative methods in economics: Applications to agriculture and climate change | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| The environment and international trade | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Applied econometrics for behavioral and experimental economics | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Théorie des contrats et incitations | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Green Finance | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Econometric evaluation of public policies: recent extensions of difference-in-difference methods | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Invited professor master class | 2 | Semester 2 | 12 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System life cycle and circular economy | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics and nature: interdisciplinary approaches | 1.5 | Semestre 2 | 15 | ||||||||
| Law of renewable energy | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 15 | ||||||||
| UE libre d'ouverture dans le cursus ingénieur CentraleSupélec, ENSAE, ENPC ou Mines. | 1.5 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Negociation seminar | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 12 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Validation TOEIC, TOEFL ou équivalent | 1 | Semestre 2 | |||||||||
| Anglais (cursus classique) | 1 | Semestre 2 | 17 | ||||||||
| English | 1 | Semester 2 | 17 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mémoire de master | 20 | Semestre 2 | |||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refresher in Statistics and Probability | 1 | Semester 1 | 24 | ||||||||
| Macroeconomics | 1 | Semester 1 | 24 | ||||||||
| Refreshers course in microeconomics | 1 | Semester 1 | 18 | ||||||||
| Sciences de l'environnement et de l'énergie (cursus apprentissage) | 1 | Semestre 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economie de la transition écologique | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Advanced natural resource economics | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Sustainable growth and degrowth | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Non-market valuation methods | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Econometrics II | 3 | Semestre 1 | 13 | 7 | |||||||
| Instruments et politique de l'environnement | 3 | Semestre 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Econometrics: Concepts and Applications | 3 | Semester 1 | 13 | 7 | |||||||
| Models, Environmental Issues, and Innovation | 3 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics of agriculture and bioenergy | 2 | Semester 1 | 20 | ||||||||
| Ecological Accounting | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics and water policies | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Management de l'environnement et responsabilité sociale des entreprises | 2 | Semestre 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Forest economics | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Ethics, profits and corporate social and environmental impact | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Applied environmental economics and policy: Case studies | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Climate economics | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Economics and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services | 2 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System life cycle and circular economy | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 20 | ||||||||
| Negociation seminar | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 9 | ||||||||
| Economics and nature: interdisciplinary approaches | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 15 | ||||||||
| Law of renewable energy | 1.5 | Semester 2 | 15 | ||||||||
| Subjects | ECTS | Semester | Lecture | directed study | practical class | Lecture/directed study | Lecture/practical class | directed study/practical class | distance-learning course | Project | Supervised studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travail en entreprise | 10 | Semestre 1 | |||||||||
| Mémoire de master et soutenance orale devant jury | 20 | Semestre 2 | |||||||||
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Academic Partner(s)
Contact
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Jean-Christophe BUREAU