The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and the protection of the environment. There are 17 SDG’s, with each goal having a number of sub-targets whereby Tidy Towns groups can align their projects or initiatives to one or more specific goals.

About Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2015, UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (“Transforming our World”). The 2030 Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity and applies to both developed and developing countries. Government, Local Authorities, Businesses, organisations and individuals across Ireland are mobilising efforts to work towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Agenda. Universal and inclusive, this far reaching plan calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.

Central to the Sustainable Development Agenda are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). They cover everything from poverty and climate change to infrastructure and industry. The Goals cover policy areas such as:

• ending poverty
• economic development
• protection of the environment
• access to health and education services
• gender equality
• peaceful societies
• human rights

Ireland has published a Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020 to provide a whole of government approach to implementing these goals.

Going forward Ferns Tidy Towns will reference whatever goals its various projects or initiatives aim to deliver. One or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals will appear alongside any and all future blogs and in the weekly newsletter.

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Presented by Thandie Newton

Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our world, Nations United tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be. It focuses on the solutions and action we need to tackle poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change.