Centre for Sustainable Development Studies contributes to Report on Children and the SDGs

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr. Katherine Zappone T.D. launched the ‘UN Sustainable Developmental Goals Through the Lens of a Child joint report’ on 25 March 2019. The report outlines the activities, outcomes and deliberations of a workshop entitled ‘SDGs through the Lens of a Child’ organised by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs … Continue Reading

Prof Paul Walsh took part in panel discussion on Climate Change for UCDSU Green Week

UCD Students Union and the Literary & Historical Society hosted a panel talk on climate change on 6 February as a part of UCDSU’s first ever Green Week. The panel considered on academics and politicians attempted to present and debate practical solutions to the climate crisis. Moderator Professor Patrick Paul Walsh introduced the talk by … Continue Reading

Membership of Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University

Prof Patrick Paul Walsh has been appointed as International Academic Committee member to the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG). Founded in April 2017 at Tsinghua University, TUSDG is the premier institution in China aimed at conducting interdisciplinary research and collaborating with global partners to address challenges in implementing UN Sustainable Development … Continue Reading

Workshop: Sustainable Development Goals through the lens of the child

The Centre for Sustainable Development Studies were part of a Geary Institute for Public Policy and Department of Children and Youth Affairs organised workshop on the Sustainable Development Goals through the lens of the child on 9th November 2018. Prof Patrick Paul Walsh, Prof Enda Murphy, Dr Aparajita Banarjee, Caitriona Devery and Charlotte Thumser were … Continue Reading

Ninth annual Ibadan Sustainable Development summit (ISDS), August 2018

Prof. Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Director, Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV), hosted the Ninth annual Ibadan Sustainable Development summit (ISDS), August 2018, August 27 – 30, 2018. The Theme of this year’s summit was “Megatrends that will shape National and Global Prosperity by 2030”. The Summit was opened by  Prof. Labode Popoola, Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network … Continue Reading

UCD to present at UN HLPF side event on digital governance, stakeholder engagement and the SDGs

Prof Patrick Paul Walsh, Prof Enda Murphy and Dr David Horan of UCD are presenting at the UN High Level Political Form 2018 side event on Digital Governance and Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development on July 18th in New York, alongside International Monetary Fund, UN SDSN and SDSN Youth, UN Library and UN DESA. The event … Continue Reading

Ireland’s Voluntary National Review on SDG Implementation

Ireland’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) on SDG implementation was approved by government in June this year.  The report will now be presented to the UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York in July 2018. The VNR considers Ireland’s performance against each of the 17 SDGs and, includes a statistical annex using Eurostat indicators. The … Continue Reading

New paper: Competition and Welfare Effects of Differentiated Taxation: Evidence from the Irish Automobile Market

Competition and Welfare Effects of Differentiated Taxation: Evidence from the Irish Automobile Market Anna Bennato, Franco Mariuzzo and  Patrick Paul Walsh (2018) Centre for Competition Policy,  University of East Anglia,  Working paper 18-5. Background In recent years, policy makers in developed countries have adopted taxation systems that attempt to curb consumers’ behavior away from a harmful … Continue Reading

Student Paper “A Space Oddity: The Impact of Emerging Space Nations on International Security”

Seréna Pilkington, a former student of SPIRe, has had a paper published by Cornell University’s Cornell Cosmic journal. The paper is called A Space Oddity: The Impact of Emerging Space Nations on International Security.  Seréna Pilkington is a recent graduate from the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) at the University College Dublin, Rep. of … Continue Reading