Local Authorities for Resilient Communities: The UN SDGs as a Roadmap to Recovery Post Pandemic

In 2015, Ireland, along with every other United Nations Member State, made a commitment to deliver on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are the world's best plan to build a better world for people and our planet. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental, as well as the rights of this and future generations. They are a call for action to promote prosperity while protecting the environment and leaving no-one behind.

Local Authorities have a key role in ensuring that we live up to our promise.

This webinar series, held on the 20th & 24th July 2020, invited Local Authority councillors to consider the value of the SDGs in the context of the current pandemic, and identify key actions that can be taken at a local authority level to ensure the SDGs form the foundation of all recovery efforts.

Facilitation:
Davie Philip Cultivate

Introduction:
Michael Ewing Irish Environmental Network

Keynote:
Senator Alice Mary Higgins - 'The SDGS: from Local to Global'

Case Studies:
Councillor Pavlos Georgiadis Community Council of Alexandroupolis.
Janette O'Brien Carlow County Council

Breakout Discussion

Keynote listeners:
Ivan Cooper The Wheel
Sarah Franklyn SDG Watch Europe

#SDGs
#LocalAuthorities
#Covid19
#ResilientCommunities