Renewable Energy and Goal Seven of the Sustainable Development Goals: a Perspective from the Ghanaian Renewable Energy Law and Policy

摘要

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by the UN General Assembly as the post-2015 global sustainable development goals (SDGs) after the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. With its exclusion from the MDGs, the critical element of energy had been included in the SDGs as the seventh goal and with renewable energy as an indispensable tool for ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. This article explores the critical inter-linkages between renewable energy and the achievement of Goal 7 of the SDGs from the Ghanaian renewable energy law and policy perspective. It analyses the key policy instruments and the Renewable Energy Act of the Republic of Ghana in light of the country fulfilling the targets of'SDG 7.