SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Everyone should have access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. In addition, the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix should be significantly increased, while the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency should be doubled.

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Maria Escobar stands in front of a sunset

Hello from La Libertad

my name is María José Rodríguez Escobar and I’m from El Salvador. Together with my colleague Natalia Romero Mora from Costa Rica, I coordinate and advise a transnational team of 15 GIZ communicators.
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Rashi Gupta
Three questions

‘We need more feminine energy’

Three questions for Rashi Gupta, Founder and Managing Director of Vision Mechatronics, a leading company in the fields of robotics, renewable energy and energy storage in India
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Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel
Interview

‘We need a global re-affirmation of commitment to the SDGs’

An interview with the Chair of the GIZ Management Board on the mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda. Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel speaks about the responsibility of the Global North, the interlinkages between environmental, economic and social factors, and points out that solidarity is an intrinsic part of GIZ staff’s make-up.

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Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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