The SDSN Ireland delegation attended the Summit of the Future Action Days at the United Nations General Assembly. During his welcoming address, Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez stated "We need academics to push the boundaries of knowledge to create solutions".
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Events for Climate Action Week, 14th - 17th October 2024.
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SDSN Ireland delegation attend Global Chairs Meeting and Leadership Council at Columbia University, USA
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Dr Maria Kirrane, SDSN Ireland Leadership Council & UCC Head of Sustainability and Climate Action Office, speaks to the aims of SDSN Ireland for upscaling successful university initiatives for all-island impacts during Global Goals Week 2024.
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Dr Maria Kirrane facilitated the Cork Chambers in-person Sustainable Cork Programme panel discussion, held on 24 September. This coincided with SDG week 18 September - 8 October 2024 and was held at the recently opened Education, Conservation and Research Centre at Fota Wildlife Park.
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This virtual event is the 21st of September 2024 at 4pm Irish time from the UN Summit of the Future Action Days and will be broadcast on UN WebTV.
SDSN Executive Committee Chair, David Donoghue will present a keynote address based on his experience as a negotiator during the Good Friday Agreement. This event will explore how concrete actions in peace, justice, and inclusion can advance the SDGs through multilateralism. This event is sponsored by Irish and Colombian UN Missions, and UNSDSN.
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SDSN will host a high-level, two-day, Pre-Summit of the Future Conference to inform outcomes of the Summit as part of its annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD). The event will feature rich discussions and esteemed keynote speakers and panels on the five core topics of the Summit of the Future, including
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UCC's head Gardener Jack Murphy explains that our meadow and no mow areas of campus have all been cut. The cut material is left for four to seven days for the seeds to drop after which the process of raking off and removing all the cut material will begin. This helps in reducing the fertility of the soil and an increase in diversity next year.
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Dr Maria Kirrane shares her experience as a Mayo woman & UCC BEE's Ecology graduate and her road to becoming Head of Sustainability with Professor Paul McSweeney, Vice President for Learning and Teaching. She explains how the Office of Sustainability and Climate Action supports teaching and learning through the development of tools like the SDG toolkit for teaching (with the Centre for the Integration of Teaching and Learning) and how this tool enables teaching staff to bring sustainability into their modules.
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