Shifting towards reliable, accessible and sustainable energy is essential for humankind to improve its working and living conditions, while preserving the environment.

Governments must cooperate with workers and employers to improve our capacity to develop renewable energy and ensure efficient access for all. It is also urgent that governments end all subsidies for fossil fuels and invest these resources in sustainable energy infrastructure and the fight against energy poverty.

This shift is within most countries’ reach: all national climate plans must include measures about creating decent and climate-friendly jobs in the energy sector, with just gender-responsive transition measures based on social dialogue.

But the poorest countries lack the capacity to do all of this. That is why trade unions call for more international climate finance to support renewable energies in these countries, together with robust accountability mechanisms for sustainable investments.

Our prirorities for SDG 7 | Tweet about this | Watch the video