Inspire Keynote: How the SDGs can Change Your Life
Channel: IFLA
Date: 27/07/2022

Speaker: Ambassador David Donoghue, Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, Ireland

The UN’s 2030 Agenda, and its Sustainable Development Goals, will reach their half-way point next year, with a huge amount of work still needed to reach them. Yet one success has been their uptake among governments, and of course libraries!
 
But what makes them so special as an agenda for action? What can working with the SDGs do for libraries – and anyone in fact – that other roadmaps don’t provide?
 
Come to this session to hear from one of the voices at the heart of the negotiation of the Agenda in the run-up to 2015, as one of the leads in raising awareness of it today. We’ll also hear from librarians for whom working with the SDGs has had a transformative impact