Affordable and Clean Energy

UN Goal 7 logoEnsure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 1

The UN has identified 5 Targets for this Goal.

Student participating in energy studiesTarget 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. 

Hood’s Department of Biology is investigating and optimizing methods to convert a variety of plant wastes (such as sugar beets, bagasse, and coffee bean hulls) into affordable, carbon-neutral biofuels. Learn more in article: Hood Helps with Renewable Biofuels

 

 

1 UN Sustainable Development Goals website: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal7