Thank you all so much for hosting and/or attending our 40 UCD SDG Week events throughout last week. We are thrilled to say we had 1,245 event registrations and amazing participation and engagement across the week. We hope the video captures a sense of the diverse programme :) youtu.be/IEiq6mV6VHY

🌊🧑‍🎓 "There is a real pressure on us to raise our game." Ireland has committed to protecting 30% of its waters by 2030 under the UN biodiversity framework, aimed at halting species decline and restoring marine ecosystems. @ucdsustainability.bsky.social #SDGweek

UCD is moving away from single-use coffee cups. Instead, you’ve got two great options... www.youtube.com/shorts/j-B3S...

UCD SDG Week 2025 takes place September 22 - 26 with 40 events across campus highlighting the Sustainable Development Goals. Eco-artmaking, a 2050 role-playing game, workshops on everything from greenwashing to upcycling your jeans - and more! Read and register: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili... #SDGsIRL

After our Ash for Future workshop and campus 'ash walk' last week, our brilliant UCD Sustainability summer intern Kendra Paleczny did this Q&A with UCD landscape architect Sophia Meeres and Teagasc tree improvement researcher Dheeraj Singh Rathore. youtu.be/hYXoxNakZUs

The decimation of Ireland’s iconic ash trees is heartbreaking - but you can help bring them back. Ash for future workshop and 'ash walk' on UCD campus last week helps citizen scientists identify and report healthy trees. Teagasc is breeding and growing these tolerant trees. youtu.be/HdGSvTBoweY

We had great fun yesterday at the eco-artmaking workshop at UCD Greenacre Sustainability Hub with UCD Innovation Academy artist-in-residence, Madeline Schmidt. We made clay stepping stones with recycled, found and organic materials from Greenacre - and these will be used to decorate the site.

What happened when UCD Services stopped mowing a patch of grass between the car park and the road behind the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science? In this video, ecologist Dr @darastanley.bsky.social talks about her work monitoring the ensuing wild orchids. 🌸 🦋 #SDGsIRL youtu.be/0vl2cymp0Nw

🌳 Ash for Future workshop with Dheeraj Rathore (Teagasc) and Sophia Meeres (UCD), Thursday, July 31st, 10.30am - 12.30pm, UCD James Joyce Library Link 3 for presentation, followed by an ‘ash walk’ on UCD campus. 🥐 Refreshments provided 📝 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UCD Sustainability recently funded cycle training workshops on campus, organised by UCD Smarter Travel Group and delivered by Colm Sevastopulo, Dublin Bay Cycling. Participants said it improved their cycling confidence and general knowledge about bike maintenance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j8a...

Fast fashion is the world's greatest polluter after oil and gas. Last week at NovaUCD’s annual Student Enterprise Competition, these students pitched ThreadLightly, an app to help people check how sustainable a garment is at the point of purchase. www.youtube.com/shorts/_JiHL...

Global Wind Day is on Sunday - and Omega is a new tool funded by UCD Sustainability to optimise wind farm design (and to help account for turbine 'wakes' like those visible in this photo of Denmark's Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm thanks to low-lying fog!) Full story: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

Two Irish Hares relaxing in the dawn sunshine in the west of Ireland

"Climate change is a disability justice issue.” Sinéad Burke, writer, academic and disability activist, in conversation with Roe McDermott at the UCD Festival on Saturday. Audience Q&A covered great topics like how to manage “the rage”. Heartfelt session. Read more: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

University College Dublin has officially joined the Race to Zero, a United Nations-backed global campaign uniting institutions across the world in a shared mission to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

UCD’s beautiful Upper Lake used to be a car park. Here UCD Estates Operations Manager Ciarán Bennett explains that the lake is not just a beautiful amenity teeming with wildlife, but a sustainable urban drainage system too. PS Featuring Dr Adam Kane's bird identification group youtu.be/Ph4hkFoH2xo

As part of National Biodiversity Week (May 18 - 23) we spoke to Ciaran Beattie of UCD Estate Services about the remarkable work undertaken to preserve the lime tree next to UCD Village, the award-winning student education and amenity building completed in October 2021. youtube.com/shorts/ZOY7h...

UCD campus is looking great in the sun this week. Lots of evidence of implementation of the #pollinatorplan @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social #biodiversity

As UCD nears its digital storage limit, Laura Toby of IT Services gives easy tips for reducing your digital carbon footprint. PS Deleting just 10 unwanted emails makes a measurable difference. PPS UCD Innovation Academy students have built a helpful app called DigiFoot.eco. youtu.be/YPQ4nL8YXag

Look what has arrived in UCD just in time for Biodiversity Week next week! 😍 😍

Come and join us at @ucddublin.bsky.social for some biodiversity identification workshops to mark #biodiveristyweek. Birds, bees, plants, worms, freshwater inverts... Tickets are selling fast! www.eventbrite.ie/e/ucd-biodiv... @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social

The UCD Sustainability Dashboard was nominated in both the Cartographic Design and Community Choice categories at recent Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards. Pictured: project lead Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, UCD VP Sustainability Tasman Crowe and students involved. www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

To celebrate #EarthDay today, we went on a field trip with the River Detectives, a group of citizen scientists committed to monitoring and protecting Wicklow streams, led by Prof Mary Kelly-Quinn of @ucddublin.bsky.social youtu.be/P2IB6_8oLBI

Yesterday we launched the UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030 and in her opening remarks, UCD president Professor Orla Feely commended it for being “very action-oriented”. Read the full story - and learn how you can get involved - here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

Yesterday we launched the UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030, a bold roadmap for embedding sustainability across every dimension of university life. You can take a look at the plan here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili... youtu.be/0m500a60hwU

Fabiola Schneider describes the new Sustainability Reporting & Analytics elective module (ACC20050) in UCD which equips students to critically assess green data to drive responsible decisions in finance, audit, strategy and beyond. PS No prior knowledge required! youtube.com/shorts/VhMJZ...

Five asks for the Irish government in advance of COP30. Have your say! Please join UCDVO for an Intergenerational Climate Café with Concern Worldwide on 23 April 3-5 in the UCD Global Lounge. Info gathered will inform a declaration for gov. All welcome; register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next Monday the Sustainability Fashion Fair takes place in UCD. 📍 Astra Hall (UCD Student Centre) 📆 31st March ⏰ 11am-3pm 👠 Fashion Show: 1pm–2pm 👗 Vintage Market: 11am–3pm ✂️ Repair Workshop: 2pm–3pm (Bring something that needs a little love!) PS Swap shop now open in Newman youtu.be/O7b024Wex_4

Congratulations to the UCD Nutribot team for winning second place at the Tri-continental Sustainability Competition in the University of Notre Dame this afternoon! Lovely trophy with colours of the three participating countries intertwined - Ireland, US, Kenya. Well done to all 6 teams! #SDGsIRL

They've landed! The UCD team has arrived at the University of Notre Dame for the Tri-Continental Student Innovation for Sustainability Comp on Fri 26. Livestreamed 12pm - 2pm Irish time in UCD Global Lounge or on Zoom. notredame.zoom.us/j/9597005592... Meeting ID: 959 7005 5928 Passcode: 530629

Sincere thanks to everyone who came along to any of our 24 UCD Green Week events last week - we were thrilled with the high turnout and great feedback. Here’s a little montage to give a flavour of it… youtu.be/lk3zufJe1Ns

What happened? Register for former Green Party spokesman Aiden Corkery’s talk, ‘Turf, TDs and Twitter tantrums - media messaging in a Green Party government’. Mon, 3 March, 1pm - 2pm, UCD Village MR5, followed by Q&A with Young Greens auditor Manus Mac Gearailt. www.eventbrite.com/e/turf-tds-a...

Among 18 events scheduled, UCD Green Week (March 3rd to 6th) features two opportunities to plant trees on campus. Register: www.ucd.ie/estates/gree... PLUS talks by Prof Jennie Stephens, journalist Sally Hayden, former Green Party spokesman Aiden Corkery and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWE...

First global, carbon neutral conference in Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability (ICT4S) takes place in June in University College Dublin. Read more: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

Can geoscience save humankind? Just one of the keynote questions at a day-long event in UCD's O’Reilly Hall tomorrow, February 13th, marking the tenth anniversary of iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences. Register: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

Made by students for students, the UCD Sustainability Toolkit is launched. It addresses #climateanxiety, promotes #sustainability and supports behavioural change on and off campus. Here SATLE funded project lead Kirsten Southard gives more information. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8eK... #SDGsIRL

UCD Estate Services recently launched a carpooling app for students and staff in partnership with Kinto Join. A 30-minute online information session about Kinto Join takes place next Tuesday, February 4th, 1pm - 1.30pm: www.eventbrite.ie/e/ucd-carpoo... #SDGsIRL www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKrs...

Today is Day 2 of the 8th Sustainable and Impact Investments International Conference at UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business. Here organising partner Dr Fabiola Schneider gives a flavour of what happens at the conference and what it hopes to achieve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YU... #SIIIC2025

Nine @ucddublin.bsky.social students have graduated from the Millennium Fellowship, a global leadership programme jointly organised by the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). Read about their voter empowerment project here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

🌍 It is the only Irish university to make it into the top 100 of the global ranking. It is also ranked 28th in Europe among the 556 European institutions featured. @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

The latest QS World University Rankings for Sustainability sees @ucddublin.bsky.social ranked 49th overall. This is a rise of one place from 50 in 2024. UCD remains ranked no 1 in Ireland for second consecutive year. Ranked in top 10 globally for equality. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini... #SDGsIRL

Our UCD Environmental Policy MSc students made the Farmer's Journal today for their research on storm resilience in forestry, based on their work in my project-based learning module last Spring. So proud! 🥰 www.farmersjournal.ie/more/forestr...

Couch stuffings, bicycle tyres, out-of-date hospital equipment. Today, for International Veterinary Medicine Day, we look at how the Clinical Skills Centre in UCD School of Veterinary Medicine takes pride in its recycled, reused and sustainable classroom materials. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4v8...

Ireland generated over 100,000 tonnes of packaging waste last Christmas (source: REPAK). Today a Sustainable Christmas Workshop took place in UCD to encourage staff and students to get creative instead! Read about it here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

The international ranking of Ireland's climate performance has improved substantially over the past 12 months, according to a new report published at the COP29 climate conference in Baku in Azerbaijan. We are 29th of 63, up 14 places on 2023. #SDGsIRL #sustainability www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Today UCD launched Breaking Boundaries strategy to 2030. Driving #sustainability is a cross-cutting theme throughout. "UCD is Ireland’s global university, an inclusive community and a driver of positive action for sustainability, and these attributes will be evident across our actions." #SDGsIRL