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Nuclear Energy & Energy Transitions:
Prospects, Challenges and Safeguards
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Susan Nakanwagi
Video interview by the author discussing this book chapter can be accessed at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt3n-ssgpjI&t=2868s. Last accessed on 1st
September 2020.
4.1 Introduction
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 under goal seven calls
for concerted efforts in ensuring access to modern and cleaner forms
1 The concept of sustainable development and sustainability as it appears today was first established
by the Brundtland Commission in 1987. It is currently recognised as the standard definition, and
it espouses that sustainable development is ‘a development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ See ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015,’ http://www.un.org/
ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E. See also the 2000 Millennium Development
Goals, http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/pdf/List%20of%20MDGs%20English.pdf.
S. Nakanwagi (B)
Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy,
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
© The Author(s) 2021
V. R. Nalule (ed.), Energy Transitions and the Future
of the African Energy Sector,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56849-8_4
113
Nuclear Energy & Energy Transitions:
Prospects, Challenges and Safeguards
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Susan Nakanwagi
Video interview by the author discussing this book chapter can be accessed at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt3n-ssgpjI&t=2868s. Last accessed on 1st
September 2020.
4.1 Introduction
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 under goal seven calls
for concerted efforts in ensuring access to modern and cleaner forms
1 The concept of sustainable development and sustainability as it appears today was first established
by the Brundtland Commission in 1987. It is currently recognised as the standard definition, and
it espouses that sustainable development is ‘a development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ See ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015,’ http://www.un.org/
ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E. See also the 2000 Millennium Development
Goals, http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/pdf/List%20of%20MDGs%20English.pdf.
S. Nakanwagi (B)
Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy,
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
© The Author(s) 2021
V. R. Nalule (ed.), Energy Transitions and the Future
of the African Energy Sector,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56849-8_4
113