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.

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Journal article

Book review: A Liberal Actor in a Realist World. The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy

Defne Gonenc
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News
27th July 2020

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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24th August 2021

Heard the news? Environmental Policy and Clean Investment

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen and Joëlle Noailly
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6th December 2023

Carbon pricing – The role of fiscal policies

Centre for Finance and Development
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Events
29 April, 2021

Can International Carbon Markets be Made Compatible with Human Rights?

Executive Education and Anne Saab
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23rd October 2023

Green extractivism and global supply chains

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Filipe Calvao
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Events
25 March, 2019

Renewable energy in Africa

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Book chapter, 2012

The Role of Nuclear Energy in GCC Economic Development

Giacomo Luciani
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News
24th June 2021

NRP73 “Financing Investments in Clean Technologies” Third Partners Meeting

Nina Kiderlin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Book chapter, 2020

The impacts of the energy transition on growth and income distribution

Giacomo Luciani
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Book chapter, 2018

Transferring technologies : the polycentric governance of clean energy technology

Liliana B. Andonova
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Goal 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

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Target 7.1

By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services

Target 7.2

By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

Target 7.3

By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

Target 7.a

By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology

Target 7.b

By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support