As United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said: “Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive”. Energy was crucial to progressive realisation of the Millennium Development Goals, despite not being explicitly included in their text. The express inclusion of energy in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) redresses this omission, formally acknowledging the important role of energy in society and for the attainment of all SDGs as an integrated, indivisible set of global priorities. SDG 7 on Energy aspires to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all”, especially for the 1.3 billion people without electricity worldwide and 2.7 billion people who use wood and biomass to cook and heat their homes.
This Toolkit on focuses Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7 Energy), which commits to take “urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”, emphasizing the globally agreed upon need to mitigate anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the damages caused by climate change, while acknowledging that the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.” The principal aim of the SDG 7 is to ensure affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. Specifically, the Toolkit highlights potential contributions of law and policy insturments in delivering targets 7.1 – 7.3.
Toolkit avalable here SDG 7 Energy – Toolkit – Can and SDGs – 05.06.2019-v2.2
