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The Global Goals for Sustainable Development
All the sustainable development goals have targets that are related to the daily work of Cork City Council. The Council, as policy makers and catalysts of change are best placed to link the global goals with the local communities. The City Council raise awareness at a local level, advocate and implement the goals locally, whilst monitoring, evaluating and learning from our experiences. Collaboration with city stakeholders, communities and groups allows us to share solutions, unlock barriers and implement strategies at local level. A number of staff awareness sessions were held throughout 2021 demonstrating how this is being done.
Goal 03 – Good Health and Wellbeing This is done in collaboration with the HSE to drive the Health and Wellbeing agenda internally in the City Council with all stakeholders in Cork City and the people of Cork. This session covered the effects of climate change on human and mental health; health impact of floods; a safe space, Healthy Cities Action Plan, Cork Food Policy Council; Green Spaces for Health; Parklets; Workplace Mental Health (Psyched); Playful Paradigm; Let’s Play Packs; Placemaking; and Tactical Urbanism. Goal 04 – Quality Education In collaboration with University College Cork, this session explored how the City Council with its stakeholders are enabling everyone to study, learn and fulfil their potential. Topics included the UNESCO Global Conference on Learning Cities; Cork Learning City; EcoWell; interagency Cross Sectoral Leadership Series; Collaboration with Educational Institutions; Libraries; Carnival of Science; Lifetime Lab; Cork Access Network; and Lifelong Learning. Goal 07 – Affordable and Clean Energy Presented by our Energy Team, the session covered how the City Council is surpassing targets in energy efficiencies; where significant energy users are; the electric fleet; receiving ISO50001 accreditation; climate action fund projects; driver awareness training; decarbonisation strategy; energy audits; solar PV feasibility; climate action bill, green procurement and the grants that are available. Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production This session demonstrated how the City Council are trying to meet and promote the needs of the present generation without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Some of the initiatives explored included: Single Use Plastics; School Water Stations; Greening of Festivals and Events; Reducing waste to landfill; food waste; textiles waste; reuse month fashion show; Reuse paint project; circular economy; education programmes through Lifetime Lab; Sustainable Travel; Pollinator Friendly planting schemes. Goal 13 – Climate Action Climate Action is everyone ’s responsibility, and this session highlighted the mitigation and adaptation measures through the Climate Action Plan in addressing flooding in the city centre; global warming; SDG’s interacting with each other; climate targets; climate adaptation committee; biodiversity strategy; green and blue infrastructure; air quality; public lighting; and the destination sustainability index.
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