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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6th December 2023

Carbon pricing – The role of fiscal policies

Centre for Finance and Development
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Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
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8th April 2024

From Research to Policy: The Influence of Our Work on the 2024 Economic Report of the President

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Events
2 May, 2019

The future of coal passes through Kosovo

Maison de la Paix
Centre for International Environmental Studies
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17th November 2023

Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
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Report, 22 September, 2021

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

Claire Ransom
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Book, 2017

Environmental and Energy Law

Jorge Vinuales
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Research project in progress

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

Francois Cohen and Joëlle Noailly
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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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14th January 2019

How Can Energy-Pricing Reforms Be Socially Sustainable?

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration and Tom Moerenhout
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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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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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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