Low Carbon & Climate Consultant - Internship (6 months)

Consulting within AXA Climate

AXA Climate (Corporate site, Linkedin) has developed complete business lines to help tackle climate change adaptation (Climate School, Insurance, Consulting for Industry/Agri/Finance/Public sector). Globally, we are a team of 200 climate experts, headquartered in Paris, spread over 5 continents and driven by the same desire for impact.

A third of AXA Climate team‑members are dedicated to help public and private stakeholders understand their climate risks and adapt to climate change: that’s our consulting business.

AXA Climate initial and core expertise is on climate‑related physical risks, but our value proposition includes today transition risks, decarbonisation, ESG and Sustainable Finance.

You will join the team dedicated to Financial Services sector. We help investment funds (in Private Equity, infrastructure, and Real‑estate) or other financial institutions understand their climate and ESG risks during the whole lifecycle of investment.

Internship starting from June or September 2026. Please precise your availability in your CV and / or motivation letter.

Your mission as a climate consultant

As a climate consultant, your main missions are:

• To contribute to consulting mission deliveries for our customers, mentored by other consultants and mission leaders.

  Consulting missions typically are GHG Footprint and Trajectory for different kind of actors, Climate Risks Assessment (Physical and Transition), Climate Strategy Definition, etc. While the internship will focus mostly on topics related with Carbon Accounting , other missions shall be envisioned if possible.

• To support internal R&D initiatives and do market research.

• Any other internal missions for which you could bring skills to the team.

Qualifications

• Previous experience covering Carbon Accounting (GHG Protocol).
• Rigorous and detail‑oriented.
• Comfortable with numbers.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Project delivery: able to deliver projects on time, with appropriate quality according to seniority.
• Organized and structured: able to proactively structure the execution and follow‑up of work.
• Content mastering: able to quickly gain knowledge on a new topic and synthesize extensive bibliography research in a comprehensive manner.
• Fluent in French and English.