GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Access to energy is an indispensable prerequisite for achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, 1.6 billion people worldwide do not have access to electricity, and 2.5 billion people depend on traditional biomass as a source of energy. Goal 7 therefore calls for universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. Because sustainable development requires climate-friendly economic development, the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix should be significantly increased and the global rate of increase in energy efficiency doubled. Research in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency is to be promoted, as are investments in energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies.
What is to be achieved?
- Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030.
- By 2030, significantly increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
- Double the global rate of increase in energy efficiency by 2030.
How is the goal to be achieved?
- By 2030, strengthen international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, namely renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and clean fossil fuel technologies, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies.
- By 2030, expand infrastructure and modernise technology to provide modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries and in least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in line with their respective support programmes.
