Main Goal
To provide all participants with a 360° view of the major sustainability challenges — including topics that will be addressed in depth in the elective modules — so that every participant acquires a solid transversal foundation regardless of their chosen learning path.
Main Skills Acquired
- Understand sustainability through a systemic approach: climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services, energy and resources, circular economy, resilience and adaptation
- Understand sustainability challenges within the built environment across four dimensions: environmental, economic, social & territorial, governance & policy
- Reconcile present and future: mitigation vs. adaptation, LCA as a systemic decision-making method, risk and uncertainty
- Identify the main levers for action: public policy, prospective planning, technological & organisational innovation, sustainable finance, governance, behavioural change
Main Topics
- Planetary boundaries, climate impacts & resilience, resource depletion & material flows, carbon emissions across the lifecycle
- Sustainability economics, carbon pricing & sustainable finance, investment barriers & co-benefits
- Urbanisation & housing challenges, health & energy poverty, territorial inequalities & Global North/South perspectives
- Climate governance & international frameworks, public policies & regulations, long-term transition planning & foresight
