
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.


Solar lights addressing energy poverty and energy sustainability: a double-dividend technology for poor areas?

How Can Energy-Pricing Reforms Be Socially Sustainable?

Renewable energy in Africa

Geneva Energy Conversations: Fossil Fuels in Sustainable Energy Systems

How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation

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

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

La seconde vie des puits de pétrole

Carbon pricing – The role of fiscal policies

Political Economy of Energy Reform: The Clean Energy-Fossil Fuel Balance in the Gulf States

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy
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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