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Landmark Irish conference explores a Just Recovery from COVID-19 using the Sustainable Development Goals
Leading Thinkers and Civil Society Experts, including Dr Mike Ryan of WHO and Minister Eamon Ryan, put forward key recommendations on how the Sustainable Development Goals can Guide Ireland’s Recovery from the pandemic.
Coalition 2030, Ireland’s civil society alliance on the Sustainable Development Goals, hosted a conference on 14th July 2021 on the theme ‘A Just Recovery from Covid-19: Using the Sustainable Development Goals to Guide Ireland’s Recovery’. As the Government faces the challenges posed by the pandemic and begins to look towards long-term recovery, the conference explored the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals for a just recovery from Covid-19 and addressed deep-seated inequalities that the pandemic has exposed.
The conference featured significant contributions from keynote speakers:
Speaking about the Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organisation said:
“The SDGs are becoming much less about development and more about survival ….maybe we should call them Sustainable 'Survival' Goals...this isn't just about development anymore this is really about survival of our civilization.."
Speaking about vaccine inequality between rich and poor countries, Dr Mike Ryan, said:
“The tragedy of the moment is that we have developed scientific solutions to this pandemic faster than with any other time in the past. We have the money, the means and the science but we lack the will to share them to save the lives we need to save”
“There is less than half of 1 percent vaccination coverage with two doses in low income countries.”
“But now we are talking about booster vaccines in the developed world..I’m being asked for my opinion about booster vaccines all day today
“But no one is asking me for my opinion on the fact that there are people dying all over the world that don’t need to die - no one is asking me about health workers who are going to work today in isolation wards all over the developing world without being vaccinated, risking their lives. But I’m being asked about booster vaccines for people in the developed world.”
“Sometimes it gets very hard to take”
Read the full press release about the conference here
Joint Statement - "A Shared Vision for a Just Recovery"
A broad cross-section of Irish civil society organizations have come together in advance of the Budget calling on the Government to adopt Six Principles for a Just Recovery as they plan the long-term response to the social and economic shock of the Covid Pandemic. The signatories include Coalition 2030, the Community Platform, the Disability Federation, Dóchas, ICTU, the Irish Network Against Racism, the National Women’s Council, the National Youth Council and the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition.
You can read the full statement here.
See the joint press release from October 2020 here.
Fifth Anniversary of the SDGs and Launch of Decade of Action
On the 5th anniversary of the historic UN Summit that adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, Coalition 2030 called on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to take charge of Ireland’s plan to achieve the Goals. As the UN marks the anniversary in New York on 25 September 2020, Coalition 2030 emphasised that the Taoiseach must ensure that delivery of the Goals is central to all areas of Government policy-making.
See Coalition 2030’s Press Release here.
Coalition 2030 Election Manifesto 2020
Coalition 2030 calls for candidates to support the following pledges
1. Fully implement the SDGs both nationally and internationally
The Irish government must take a systemic approach to mainstreaming the SDGs across all policies with a focus on system-level and just transition, ensuring no one is left behind.
2. Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
The government must ensure that all internal and external policies are aligned with the SDGs across all sectoral policies and programmes, at global, national and local levels. Policy coherence and cross-departmental coordination is crucial to addressing the multiple challenges of poverty reduction, environmental degradation and economic vulnerability, and ensuring sustainable development.
3. Support the creation of a dedicated Oireachtas Committee to
monitor the implementation of the SDGs
The government must ensure the SDGs are monitored at the highest level.
To read the Coalition 2030 Election Manifesto 2020 follow the link:
Delivering the Open Letter to Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan and Green Party Deputy Leader Catherine Martin
The 25th September 2019 marks the 4th anniversary of the signing of the SDGs. Globally, this has become a day that citizens and civil society organisations come together to #Act4SDGs. For the last three years in September, Coalition 2030 has organised a public mobilisation in Dublin City centre to raise awareness for the SDGs in Ireland.
As part of this activity, on Tuesday 17th September at 12pm at the gates of the Dáil, Coalition 2030 members delivered an open letter to Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan and Green Party Deputy Leader Catherine Martin with Coalition 2030’s key asks in advance of those government representatives traveling to the UN SDGs Summit.
The SDGs Global Week of Action coincides with the UN SDGs Summit (24th & 25th September), the UN Climate Summit (23rd September) and the UN General Assembly (UNGA)
To read the Coalition 2030 open letter to Heads of State and Government follow the link: