R E P O R T - Green Foundation Ireland

He is a board member of Dóchas and in 2017 was the recipient of the Dóchas "Global Citizen of the Year". [...] Ireland (headed up by David Donoghue) and Kenya co-chaired the Sustainable Development Goals back in 2014 and it is important to note there is no hierarchy of importance or specific rationale for their numbering from 1-17, many of which are clearly interconnected. [...] A major problem, of course, is that none of the goals are binding and some countries find ways of interpreting the goals to suit their own national interests. [...] Categorising the goals into groups as building blocks, beginning at the base with environmental or biosphere – from which nothing will work or survive, if we don't have a liveable planet – to more societal/political goals and finally at the top to the so-called economy can be useful. [...] Ireland's strengths apparently are in Goal 4 (Quality Education) – yet we were informed of lots of on the ground evidence of poor understanding of the goals in Ireland – as well as with regards to Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-Being) and, most surprisingly, Ireland appears to rank high with regards to Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).