SDG Champions 2025-2027

The SDG Champions Programme was developed to raise public awareness of the SDGs and to demonstrate, through the examples provided by the SDG Champions, that everyone in society can make a contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Following an open call for expressions of interest, 12 Champions were chosen to take part in Ireland’s first SDG Champions Programme. For the 2023-2024 Programme, 26 champions were chosen, consisting of 22 newly appointed organisations, along with four former SDG Champions who chose to continue the role cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2024-2025 Programme 20 Champions were selected.

For the 2025-2027 Programme, 20 champions have been appointed for 18 months. They have been selected from across the public, private, community, voluntary, youth and NGO sectors and are represented by larger, national organisations and smaller, community groups.

Role

• Advocate and promoter of the SDGs and sustainable development
• Acts as a good practice example of how an organisation or group can contribute to the SDGs and integrate the SDGs into their work or activities
• Shares learnings with others

Responsibilities

• Ongoing promotion of and linking of work to the SDGs
• Quarterly updates on related work and activities
• Organisation of an SDG-related or promotional event during the lifetime of being an SDG Champion
• Contribution at end-of-term showcasing event

• Balla Tidy Towns
• Community Foundation Ireland
• Dark Sky Ireland
• FoodCloud
• Galway City Council
• Global Action Plan (GAP)
• Grant Thornton
• Green and Blueprints
• Guaranteed Irish
• IRD Duhallow
• Junior Achievement Ireland
• Killimordaly GAA
• KORE Group
• Laois Offaly Education and Training Board
• Munster Rugby
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
• Sisk
• Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Ireland
• The B!G Idea
• Vision Green Consultancy

For more information or media enquiries to the SDG Champions, please see the list of contacts for each organisation on the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment website.