Energy transition through the lens of SDGs: new research priority area

24 November 2021

The UvA has recently approved a new research priority area for the coming five years: "Energy transition through the lens of SDGs". It unites researchers working on economic, environmental, technological, social, political, and business aspects of the energy system, the energy transition, and SDGs. The group will regularly come together at IAS.

The urgent need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avoid uncontrollable climate change and fulfil the requirements of the Paris Agreement shapes decisions on how to define, design, and implement the energy transition in the Netherlands. The energy transition is closely intertwined with essentially all Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs), but its wider effects are seldom taken into account or studied in detail.

The new new research priority area "Energy transition through the lens of SDGs" (ENLENS) aims to stimulate and initiate interdisciplinary cross-faculty research that maps the energy transition in the Netherlands and Europe against the SDGs beyond Dutch borders.

ENLENS will start in January 2022.