How SEforALL responds to the COVID-19 crisis

Energy Safety Nets essential for electricity and clean cooking access

Take the survey: COVID-19 initiatives for off-grid sector

Going further, faster - together

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an international organization working with leaders in government, the private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030. We maintain close links with the UN, including through a relationship agreement, partnerships with UN agencies and with SEforALL's CEO acting as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy.

Opinion

25 May 2020

Editor's pick: Coronavirus - Energy enterprises can protect the vulnerable

Opinion

19 May 2020

Editor's pick: Powering health across Africa through COVID-19 and a changing climate

Story of Success

30 Apr 2020

Divine Bamboo creating local market for clean cooking in Uganda

Opinion

29 Apr 2020

Damilola Ogunbiyi and Riccardo Puliti: Energy access takes center stage in COVID-19 fight, powering Africa's recovery

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What we do

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) supports progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) and the Paris Agreement. Certain areas of the sustainable energy transition demand more urgent, focused action. Our work involves engaging stakeholders—business, government, consumers and NGOs—to ensure they are committed to these areas.

Cooling for All

Scaling up access to sustainable cooling for all

Electricity for All in Africa

Inspiring strategies that will power a continent

Energizing Finance

Catalyzing finance for electricity and clean cooking access

Energy and Health

Promoting universal electrification of health facilities

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Understanding SDG7

840 million people in the world today have no access to electricity, and roughly 3 times that number use dirty cooking fuels. SDG7 sets out to change these numbers. It calls for "affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all" by 2030.