The crucial role of complementarity, transparency and adaptability for designing energy policies for sustainable development

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement have ushered in a new era of policymaking to deliver on formulated goals. Energy policies are key ensuring universal access affordable, reliable, sustainable, modern energy (SDG7). Yet they can also considerable impact other To successfully achieve multiple goals concurrently, need balance different objectives manage their interactions. Refining previously contemplated design principles, we identify three principles - complementary , transparency adaptability as highly pertinent for multiple-objective based synthesis seventeen coordinated policy case studies. First, should entail measures provisions that specifically target non-energy ( complementarity ). Second, impacts be tracked comprehensively both domains uncover diminishing returns facilitate learning Third, capable adapting changing over time These rarely considered current policies, implying mainstream them into next generation by pointing best practices tools. • We synthesized policies. . There is policymaking.