In this course you will cover the history, the political economy and the economics of European sustainability policies from the 1970s to the present. The introduction will define the key concepts of sustainability and the European business environment. The second part will make the link between energy policies, energy saving and eventually environmental protection at the beginning of the development of an environmental conscience. It will consider the major elements of environmental policies and the key documents in the respective sectors. In the third part, the political economy of implementing environmental policies will be analyzed in the present European political and business environment. This will touch on different sustainability policies, such as Corporate Social Responsibility, ecological modernization or the green movement. The course will finish with an outlook on where European sustainability policies are going.