Coalition 2030 is an alliance of 70 civil society organisations from the international development, environmental, anti-poverty and trade union sectors working together to ensure Ireland keeps its promise to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both in Ireland, and abroad.

The Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2015, the 193 UN member states unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, a global commitment to navigate humanity towards greater wellbeing and to forge a new relationship between sustainability and development. This global agenda unfolded in a novel institutional setting with a high level of participation. Its decade-long elaboration process involved several stakeholders: non-governmental organisations, private-sector entities and local authorities in various frameworks. In sum, more than a million people shared their views on the new global development agenda.

The resulting charter set interconnected and indivisible goals, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), each with a series of 169 specific targets to be attained by 2030.

The goals balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, providing a holistic vision for the wellbeing of people and the planet, and placing equality and resilience at the core. They provide the only universally agreed and universally applicable framework for global evidence-based policy-making in this crucial decade - the Decade of Action. 

Coalition 2030

With 17 Goals and 169 individual targets to be measured, reported on and met, new partnerships are needed – partnerships which bring together people and organisations from across the country, from across sectors and from across the various strands of Government. If we are to reach these goals, collective collaboration will be needed, requiring a whole- of-government and whole-of-society approach. Coalition 2030 is working to form and engage in such creative partnerships.

Our vision is to transform our world through collaborative partnerships that will free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want, and to heal and secure our planet.

Our mission is to facilitate the members of Coalition 2030 working collectively and individually in order to fulfil the objectives of the Coalition and to ensure as far as is possible, the achievement of the UN Sustainable Goals.