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United Nations – Sustainable Development Goals

Did you know that Kinvara Tidy Towns are SDG Champions?

The SDG Champions Programme was developed to raise public awareness of the SDGs and to demonstrate, through the examples provided by the SDG Champions, that everyone in society can make a contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

For the 2024-2025 Programme, 20 champions have been selected from across the public, private, community, voluntary, youth and NGO sectors and are represented by larger, national organisations and smaller, community groups.

For further information on SDG Champions, you can check out the following Gov.ie website SDG Champions 2024-2025

To see a list of all the 2024-2025 Champions, download the PDF below:-

SDG Champions 2024-2025

The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognise that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

To Learn more about SDGs Click Here.

Back in 2015, 193 world leaders agreed on an epic plan – the Global Goals.  This is our guide to ending poverty, reducing inequalities, and combating the climate crisis by 2030.  It’s the game plan we’ve all been waiting for.  But in 2023, we’re down at halftime. With seven years to go, we’re only on track to achieve 15% of the Goals. Inequalities have grown deeper, 350 million people could go hungry, and at our current pace, we could be three centuries away from achieving gender equality.

We’re in the match of our lives, and we’re losing.  So, we can crumble, inch by inch, ‘til we’re finished.  Or we can huddle up and listen to this epic speech from Al Pacino.  To mark this moment, we’ve re-imagined Al Pacino’s epic locker room speech from Any Given Sunday.  This new cut of the scene turns this pep talk into a rallying cry for world leaders (and all of us) to recommit to the Goals – the best plan we have for people and planet. The Global Goals are a game of inches.  Ending poverty, reducing inequalities, tackling the climate crisis… The inches we need are everywhere around us.  On this team, we fight for that inch.  What are you gonna do?

SDGS – How we live them in Kinvara