Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

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Climate Change; Clean Energy, Global

An uncertain future for global hydropower

Energy and Climate Change: Our New Future, Volume , 1 January 2025

This chapter supports the UN SDGs by highlighting hydropower's role in providing sustainable, efficient, and versatile renewable energy (SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy), while also addressing environmental and social challenges (SDG 13: Climate Action; SDG 15: Life on Land; and SDG 1: No Poverty) associated with large hydropower projects.

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Climate Change, Global

Climate change, biodiversity, and the energy transition: The potential role of the UN's declaration on peasants’ rights

One Earth, Volume 8, 17 January 2025

Explain the role of UN declaration on peasant's rights for a just energy transtion.

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Rule of Law; Institutional Frameworks and international cooperation for Sustainable Development; Capacity Building, Global

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Tandem daytime radiative cooling and solar power generation

Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 6, 15 January 2025

Daytime radiative cooling and photovoltaic energy generation are poorly compatible, as they have competing physical demands. Here, a transmission-based radiative cooling system is integrated with solar cells, allowing simultaneous cooling and photovoltaic power generation in sunny weather.

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Climate Change; Energy, Global

Sustainable anticoagulation for climate resilient care

Elsevier, The Lancet Haematology, Volume , 2025

This Viewpoint issues a multidisciplinary call to embed sustainability into anticoagulation care, aligning clinical excellence with climate responsibility.

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Health and wellbeing, Global

SDG Resource Centre Special Collections: A Year in Review

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In this round up of 2024, we share the Special Collections published on the SDG Resource Centre throughout the year, featuring more than 800 research articles and book chapters made freely available to advance knowledge and accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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united nations; observation days; knowledge, Global

From Earth's Core to Your Grid: Promising Geothermal Energy Innovations

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In this episode of the "World We Want" podcast, Márcia Balisciano interviews three global experts, Ronald DiPippo, Andrew Chiasson, and Luis Carlos Gutiérrez-Negrín. Their book, the 2nd edition of Geothermal Power Generation, was recently published by Elsevier. They discuss the development and potential of geothermal energy as a reliable and sustainable energy source, and how their work aligns with the UN sustainable development goals.

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Podcasts

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Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Emerging Renewable Energy Sources; Thermal Energy, Global

Gold Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites: Science, Technology and Applications - Chapter 13: Gold nanoparticles for solar cells applications

Gold Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites, 2025, Pages 493-527

This chapter supports SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) by exploring innovative approaches to enhance solar energy harvesting using plasmonic nanoparticles, thereby improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of solar energy systems. It also contributes to SDG 13 (Climate Action) by promoting sustainable energy technologies that help reduce reliance on fossil fuels and mitigate climate change.

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Energy, Global

Powering through the Transition: Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil, Chapter 1: Introduction

Michael Deighton, Chapter One - Introduction, Powering through the Transition, Elsevier, 2025, Pages 1-17.

This chapter supports UN SDGs 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 13 (Climate Action), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) by promoting the transition to renewable energy sources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, fostering technological innovation, and emphasizing collaboration and innovation to drive the development of cleaner and more efficient energy solutions for a sustainable future.

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Energy; Technology; Climate Change, Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Europe; Global; Middle East; North America; Oceania; Pacific; South America

Powering through the Transition: Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil, Chapter 2: Reinvention: From oil giants to pioneers of sustainable energy

Michael Deighton, Chapter 2: Reinvention, Powering through the Transition, Elsevier, 2025

This chapter supports UN SDGs 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), and 13 (Climate Action) by promoting the transition to renewable energy sources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, fostering technological innovation, and emphasizing collaboration and innovation to drive the development of cleaner and more efficient energy solutions for a sustainable future.

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