Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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

Affordable & Clean Energy


Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today. Be it for jobs, security, climate change, food production or increasing incomes, access to energy for all is essential. Working towards this goal is especially important as it interlinks with other Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing on universal access to energy, increased energy efficiency and the increased use of renewable energy through new economic and job opportunities is crucial to creating more sustainable and inclusive communities and resilience to environmental issues like climate change.

At the current time, there are approximately 3 billion people who lack access to clean-cooking solutions and are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution. Additionally, slightly less than 1 billion people are functioning without electricity and 50% of them are found in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Fortunately, progress has been made in the past decade regarding the use of renewable electricity from water, solar and wind power and the ratio of energy used per unit of GDP is also declining.

However, the challenge is far from being solved and there needs to be more access to clean fuel and technology and more progress needs to be made regarding integrating renewable energy into end-use applications in buildings, transport and industry. Public and private investments in energy also need to be increased and there needs to be more focus on regulatory frameworks and innovative business models to transform the world’s energy systems.

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

Clean Air Asia

2001 Pasig City Philippines E y

Clean Air Initiative for Cities Around the World

CAI 1998 Washington DC USA F

Clean Air Institute

CAI 2006 Washington DC USA E j

Clean Air Task Force

CATF 1996 Boston MA USA G

Clean Energy Ministerial

CEM 2009 Paris France F cg

Clean Shipping Coalition

CSC Brussels Belgium C y

Clean Sky Joint Undertaking

Clean Sky JU 2008 Brussels Belgium E

Clean Up the World

CUW 1993 Darlinghurst NSW Australia F

ClientEarth

London UK F

Climate and Clean Air Coalition

CCAC 2012 Paris France E y

Climate Investment Coalition

CIC C

Climate Investment Funds

CIF 2008 F f

Climate Ledger Initiative

CLI 2016 Zurich Switzerland E

Climate Parliament

London UK F

Climate Reality Project Europe

Vienna Austria F

CO2 Value Europe

CVE 2017 Brussels Belgium D

Coalition Clean Baltic

CCB 1990 Uppsala Sweden F y

Coalition for Energy Savings

Brussels Belgium F y

COGEN Europe

1993 Brussels Belgium D yt

Collaborative Intergovernmental Scientific Research Institute

CISRI 2000 Novara Italy E gj

Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Low- and Middle-income Countries

CWG St Gallen Switzerland F

Comisión Latinoamericana de Empresarios de Combustibles

CLAEC 1995 Montevideo Uruguay E

Comité européen de normalisation

CEN 1961 Brussels Belgium D y

Comité Regional de Recursos Hidraulicos del Istmo Centroamericano

CRRH 1966 San José Costa Rica E g

Commission for Environmental Cooperation

CEC 1994 Montréal QC Canada E g

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

CCAMLR 1982 Hobart TAS Australia E gy

Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage

CIE 1900 Vienna Austria C

Commission on Air Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN - Standards Committee

1990 Düsseldorf Germany G

Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution

Black Sea Commission Istanbul Türkiye E g

Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards

CRIRSCO 1994 C

Committee on Sustainable Energy

1990 Geneva Switzerland E g

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

COPUOS 1959 Vienna Austria E g

Common Access to Biological Resources and Information

CABRI 1996 Genoa Italy F

Common Ground Research Networks

1984 Champaign IL USA J

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure

CLARIN 2012 Utrecht Netherlands E

Commonwealth Human Ecology Council

CHEC 1969 C

Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies

CER 1988 Brussels Belgium F v

Community Partners International

CPI 2010 San Francisco CA USA G

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Analysis of Organic Micro-pollutants in Water

1980 T g

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Physico-chemical Behaviour of Atmospheric Pollutants

1980 T g

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Treatment and Use of Sewage Sludge

1979 T g

Complementary Protocol to the Agreement on Regional Cooperation in Combating Pollution of the Southeast Pacific by Hydrocarbons and other Harmful Substances

1983 Quito Ecuador T g

Complementary Protocol to the Agreement on Regional Cooperation in Combating Pollution of the Southeast Pacific by Oil and other Harmful Substances in Cases of Emergency

1983 T g

Conciliation Resources

CR 1994 London UK G

Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants

CEWEP 2002 Düsseldorf Germany D t

Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe

CLAIRE 2018 The Hague Netherlands D

Confederazione Boccistica Internazionale

CBI 1983 Ankara Türkiye C

Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations

CONGO 1948 Geneva Switzerland E y

Conference on Process Integration for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction

PRES 2003 S c

Conférence Permanente des Chambres Consulaires Africaines et Francophones

CPCCAF 1973 Paris France C y

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