SDG Campaign
The focus of Green Energy Alliance is to align itself in Africa with the aims of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) campaign which was launched by the United Nations in 2002. It ran until 2015 when it was replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) campaign which will run until 2030.
The overall objective is to halt extreme poverty and eight development goals, which were adopted by 189 UN member states, have been set to achieve this. The goals relevant to Green Energy Alliance’s plans are as follows:
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day;
- By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all;
- By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations;
- By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
- By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services;
- By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix;
- By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency;
- By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology;
- By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support.