Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy

Affordable & Clean Energy


Goal 7 is about ensuring access to clean and affordable energy, which is key to the development of agriculture, business, communications, education, healthcare and transportation.

The world continues to advance towards sustainable energy targets – but not fast enough. At the current pace, about 660 million people will still lack access to electricity and close to 2 billion people will still rely on polluting fuels and technologies for cooking by 2030.

Our everyday life depends on reliable and affordable energy. And yet the consumption of energy is the dominant contributor to climate change, accounting for around 60 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

From 2015 to 2021, the proportion of the global population with access to electricity has increased from 87 per cent to 91 per cent.

Ensuring universal access to affordable electricity by 2030 means investing in clean energy sources such as solar, wind and thermal. Expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology to provide clean energy in all developing countries is a crucial goal that can both encourage growth and help the environment.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

World Federation of Scientific Workers

WFSW 1946 Mont-Saint-Aignan France C

World Federation of United Nations Associations

WFUNA 1946 New York NY USA E

World for World Organization

WFWO 2001 Rome Italy G

World Forest Institute

WFI 1989 Portland OR USA G j

World Forestry Center, Portland

WFC 1989 Portland OR USA G

World Forum Offshore Wind

WFO 2018 Hamburg Germany F

World Future Council

WFC 2007 Hamburg Germany F f

World Geospatial Industry Council

WGIC 2018 The Hague Netherlands C t

World Green Infrastructure Network

WGIN 2008 Toronto ON Canada F

World Health Innovation Summit

WHIS Carlisle UK J

World Health Organization

WHO 1946 Geneva Switzerland B g

World Information Service on Energy

WISE 1978 Amsterdam Netherlands F

World Information Transfer

WIT 1986 New York NY USA F

World LPG Association

WLPGA 1987 Neuilly-sur-Seine France F

World Maritime Technology Congress

WMTC 2003 J c

World Mining Congress

WMC 1958 Katowice Poland C y

World Mountain People Association

WMPA 2001 Paris France C

World Neighbors

WN 1951 Oklahoma City OK USA G v

World Nuclear Association

WNA 1975 London UK C y

World Nuclear Fuel Market

WNFM Norcross GA USA F

World Organization of the Scout Movement

WOSM 1907 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia B

World Renewable Energy Network

WREN 1992 Brighton UK F

World Resources Forum Association

WRFA 2012 St Gallen Switzerland E y

World Resources Institute

WRI 1982 Washington DC USA E j

World Sailing

1907 London UK B y

World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies

WSSET Nottingham UK C

world stainless association

worldstainless 1995 Brussels Belgium F y

World Water Council

WWC 1996 Marseille France C y

World Wind Energy Association

WWEA 2001 Bonn Germany C yt

World Wind Energy Institute

WWEI 2006 Hurup Thy Denmark E j

WorldFish

1975 Bayan Lepas Malaysia E

WorldLoop

2011 Brussels Belgium G

Worldview Resource Group

WRG Colorado Springs CO USA N

WPC Energy

1933 London UK F

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

1991 Wuppertal Germany G j

YES-Europe

2016 Geneva Switzerland F

Young Professionals in Energy

YPE Houston TX USA N t

Youth and Environment Europe

YEE 1983 Prague Czechia E

Youth For Public Transport

Y4PT 2009 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek Belgium F

Youth RISE

2006 London UK F

Zero Emissions Platform

ZEP 2005 Brussels Belgium F

Zero Emissions Research Initiatives

ZERI 1994 Kamakura Japan E f

Zero Energy Mass Custom Home Network

ZEMCH 2010 E

Zero Waste International Alliance

ZWIA 2003 J

Zero Waste MENA

ZW MENA 2013 Cambridge UK J

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