7-Affordable and Clean Energy

Dutch European candidates unanimously support UN Binding Treaty for international trade and green investments.

A group of Palestinian women reclaimed souvereinty over their energy supply. Together they engaged with the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Women and the Ministry of Economy to advocate for the empowerment of women in the energy sector and for gender sensitive energy laws. They discussed the obstacles women face in this sector and what opportunities could empower them. This resulted in the Ministry of Energy launching a new project called ‘GROW’, meant to support initiatives by women in the area of renewable energy.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an unprecedented and invaluable opportunity in the direction of global transformative change of societies and the environment for the good. This paper sheds light on this transformative power of the SDG agenda. It shows the opportunities that are available to assure coherence and the precedence of people and the planet in the realisation of the SDGs, not least via the transformative solutions that grassroots organisations, communities, and civic movements from around the world put forward. And it presents six concrete recommendations that could help governments to implement policies and practices to realise the SDGs as such that they fulfill their potential: “peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”.