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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Research project

Effectiveness of Partnerships for Advancing the SDG: Behavioural Pathways and Impacts

Liliana B. Andonova and Dario Piselli
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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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13th December 2023

The Green Transition in Developing Countries

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Publications
Report, 22 September, 2021

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

Claire Ransom
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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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Teaching
Academic courses

Research Seminar on the International Law of Energy

Jorge Vinuales
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16th June 2020

Mid-term results on the National Research Programme (NRP) 73

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Joëlle Noailly
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30th November 2023

Battery supply chains from South America to Europe and beyond: Issues of governance, sustainability and justice

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Marc Hufty
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Events
14 April, 2022

Lithium Mining in Indigenous Territories

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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24th June 2021

NRP73 “Financing Investments in Clean Technologies” Third Partners Meeting

Nina Kiderlin and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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17th December 2021

La seconde vie des puits de pétrole

Filipe Calvao
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13 September, 2022

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making Q&A

Executive Education
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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