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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26th July 2022

Crowdfunding Cleantech startups – CIES Policy Brief 11

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research project in progress

Financing investments in clean technologies

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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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27 May, 2021

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

Anne Saab and Executive Education
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Working paper, February 2017

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

Dario Piselli
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24th September 2021

Welcome Event with CIES and EC

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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2nd November 2022

Critical Minerals and the Clean Energy Transition

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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Book chapter, 2012

The Role of Nuclear Energy in GCC Economic Development

Giacomo Luciani
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Research project

Access to Clean Energy for the Green Economy in Developing Countries

Liliana B. Andonova, Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Book, 2017

Environmental and Energy Law

Jorge Vinuales
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30th June 2020

‘Does successful emissions reduction lie in the hands of non-state rather than state actors? ‘

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Liliana B. Andonova
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6th October 2022

Policy Brief: Which pathways to respond to the energy crisis?

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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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