
A number of professors, researchers and students work on SDG 7 at the Graduate Institute. We offer academic courses, and an Executive Certificate and Master on Environmental Governance and Policy Making. We also hold various events and have published multiple academic and policy-oriented articles on this topic. The Centre for International Environmental Studies serves as a hub of activity on affordable and clean energy.


Contribution of Master’s Students for the CIES research project ‘Financing investments in clean technologies’

Heard the news? Environmental Policy and Clean Investment

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Carbon pricing – The role of fiscal policies

Can International Carbon Markets be Made Compatible with Human Rights?

Green extractivism and global supply chains

Renewable energy in Africa

The Role of Nuclear Energy in GCC Economic Development

NRP73 “Financing Investments in Clean Technologies” Third Partners Meeting

The impacts of the energy transition on growth and income distribution

Transferring technologies : the polycentric governance of clean energy technology
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View moreGoal 7 aims at increasing energy efficiency and the share of renewable energy, while also underlining that “energy is crucial for achieving almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals, from its role in the eradication of poverty through advancements in health, education, water supply and industrialization, to combating climate change” as put by the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Read more about Goal 7