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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6th August 2020

The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance

Centre for International Environmental Studies, Dario Piselli, Defne Gonenc and Yixian Sun
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13th December 2023

The Green Transition in Developing Countries

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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25th October 2023

The Complex Case of Critical Minerals

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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16th August 2022

Text as data in Environmental Economics and Policy

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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 December 2023

Carbon pricing – The role of fiscal policies

Centre for Finance and Development
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7th September 2022

Investments in Environmental Projects, a podcast with Laura Nowzohour (Research in Progress, Ep. 2)

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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31st January 2023

Environmental Policy and the Low-Carbon Transition

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Energy subsidy reform

Tom Moerenhout
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21st December 2021

Clean Energy & the Hybridization of Global Governance

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Liliana B. Andonova
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PhD thesis in progress

Coalitions’ formation: Interest groups’ success in the EU energy policy-making process

Valentina Baiamonte
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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