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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Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
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Publications
Book, 2017

Environmental and Energy Law

Jorge Vinuales
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Publications
Working paper, February 2017

UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade

Dario Piselli
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News
17th November 2023

Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
23rd October 2023

Green extractivism and global supply chains

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Filipe Calvao
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News
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
23 November, 2020

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

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
31 March, 2022

Energy Transitions in Latin America from a Historical Perspective

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research
Research project

Energy subsidy reform

Tom Moerenhout
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News
26th July 2022

Crowdfunding Cleantech startups – CIES Policy Brief 11

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Research
Research project in progress

Financing investments in clean technologies

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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News
28th June 2022

CIES Publications News | June 2022

Centre for International Environmental Studies
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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