This virtual event is the 21^st 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. 

SDSN Ireland will host a webinar titled “Progressing the SDGs, building on the UN Summit of the Future” on 4 October at 2-3pm. 

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

1. sustainable development and SDG financing
2. peace and security
3. governance of cutting-edge science, technology, and innovation
4. youth and future generations
5. the future of multilateralism and global governance  

Daily agendas within the expanded the YouTube description.

Day 1 Watch LIVE

Day 2 Watch LIVE

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. 

Join the SDSN, in collaboration with the Global Association of Master’s in Development Practice Programs (MDP), for the 12th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD)'s online parallel sessions! The theme of this year's ICSD is “Solutions for the Future,” with participants sharing practical solutions for achieving the SDGs at local and national levels across 7 major themes Register online today.

Use of second-hand items and repairing to reduce environmental impact is championed this month for Second-Hand September. In line with this UCC's Green Campus were delighted to have FashForward in UCC to demonstrate their clothing repair kits, which are available for all students to loan from UCC Boole Library. The two kits include materials for denim patching and repair and sewing buttons/mending seams. The kits are accompanied by online demonstrations.

University College Cork (UCC) has placed 67^th of 1,963 universities from around the world in the latest results of the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.

University College Cork (UCC) has risen nineteen places in one of the world’s leading education rankings with particular strengths for internationalisation and sustainability. It comes on the back of an eleven-place improvement last year.