SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy

SDG7 Affordable and clean energy

While progress has been made in electricity access, 675 million are yet to be connected and 2.3 billion use polluting fuels for cooking. Renewable energy is increasingly viable. Our current reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and harmful to the planet, which is why we have to change the way we produce and consume energy.

Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to tackling global challenges around SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy. Below are some of our outputs supporting this goal.

A practical way to resolve Papua New Guinea’s electricity crisis

SEAN JACOBS  | Part 2 of 3 The IMF’s return to PNG is an opportunity to revisit the status of PNG’s State Owned Enterprises… Read More

Future made in Australia? Evaluating Australia’s 2024 green energy related policies and its potential impact on Asia

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL AND JING ZHANG | 20-MINUTE READ | Download PDF Introduction On April 11, 2024, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese… Read More

Panels to power: Investigating the solar rebound effect in Vietnam

LUAN NGUYEN, SHYAMA RATNASIRI, LIAM WAGNER, DAN NGUYEN AND NICHOLAS ROHDE  | Solar energy has emerged as a beacon… Read More

China Green Trade Report 2023

JING ZHANG AND CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL  | 35-MINUTE READ | DOWNLOAD PDF Key findings China’s exports of the ‘New Three’—solar photovoltaic… Read More

Engaging China for sustainability in Asia: Collaboration, competition, or choppy waters

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, CHEN GANG AND LILI MI |   45 MINUTE READ DOWNLOAD PDF Introduction China’s economic, political, and military rise… Read More

Chasing the Asia-Pacific green ‘Just Transition’ opportunity

Download PDF CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, ROB HALES, LAWRENCE ANG AND FABBY TUMIWA  |     Introduction Asia-Pacific economies stand at a… Read More

Managed transition vehicle: Financing mechanism for early phase-down of Chinese-sponsored coal plants

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, LAWRENCE ANG AND MUSTAFA HYDER | Download PDF Pilot application in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor China has… Read More

Who is buying electric vehicles in Australia? A study of early adopters

ANNA MORTIMORE, SHYAMA RATNASIRI AND MD SAYED IFTEKHAR | The global imperative to reduce carbon emissions has brought the issue of… Read More

China green finance status and trends 2023-2024

JING ZHANG, ZIYING SONG AND CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL  | 40-MINUTE READ | Introduction Download PDF Echoing the central government’s “30/60” decarbonisation goal… Read More

China’s Two Sessions 2024: highlights from green development, energy transition, green finance, carbon market and Belt and Road Initiative

JING ZHANG AND CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL  | China’s annual Two Sessions[i] opened on 4 March 2024 and lasted for seven days (typically, the… Read More