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.
Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition
Political Economy of Energy Reform: The Clean Energy-Fossil Fuel Balance in the Gulf States
Energy Transitions in Latin America from a Historical Perspective
CIES Annual Report 2020
How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation
Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A
Green extractivism and global supply chains
Solar lights addressing energy poverty and energy sustainability: a double-dividend technology for poor areas?
Crowdfunding Cleantech startups – CIES Policy Brief 11
Environmental Governance & Policy-Making
Managing Global Temperature Overshoot: the role of solar radiation modification
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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