SDG 12
Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Ireland: Major challenges remain· Decreasing
Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.
What this goal covers
- •Implement sustainable consumption and production programmes worldwide
- •Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
- •Halve global food waste at the retail and consumer level
Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.
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Goal 12 score, by country
Ireland is in rank group 28 of 209 (out of 209 countries with a score for this goal).
What makes up Ireland's score (72 out of 100)
The average of 8 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.
- 12.8 Education for sustainability · Environment and sustainability taught in schools (score)75.4% (2023)100
- 12.2 Material efficiency · Domestic material consumption per unit of GDP0.2 kg per $ (2022)100
- 12.a Clean energy capacity · Installed renewable electricity capacity per person1,257 W (2024)91
- 12.c Fossil-fuel subsidies · Fossil-fuel subsidies0.7% of GDP (2024)88
- 12.5 Recycling · Municipal waste recycled29.9% (2020)68
- 12.3 Food waste · Food waste per person144 kg/year (2022)57
- 12.b Sustainable tourism accounting · Standard accounts for tracking tourism and the environment3 score (2021)43
- 12.2 Material use · Domestic material consumption per person24 tonnes (2022)29
Not covered: Material footprint (12.2.1), hazardous waste (12.4) and company sustainability reporting (12.6) have too little country data.
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Limitation: Most official indicators for this goal measure resource use, policies and reporting, and richer countries tend to consume more. Read it as a rough guide.
Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (8 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Material footprint (12.2.1), hazardous waste (12.4) and company sustainability reporting (12.6) have too little country data. Limitation: Most official indicators for this goal measure resource use, policies and reporting, and richer countries tend to consume more. Read it as a rough guide. How the scores are built → Caution: Food waste per person — Mostly modelled estimates from the UNEP Food Waste Index; many are flagged low confidence.
- Domestic material consumption per person (UN EN_MAT_DOMCMPC; 12.2 Material use)
- Food waste per person (UN AG_FOOD_WST_PC; 12.3 Food waste)
- Municipal waste recycled (UN EN_MWT_RCYR; 12.5 Recycling)
- Fossil-fuel subsidies (UN ER_FFS_CMPT_GDP; 12.c Fossil-fuel subsidies)
- Installed renewable electricity capacity per person (UN EG_EGY_RNEW; 12.a Clean energy capacity)
- Domestic material consumption per unit of GDP (UN EN_MAT_DOMCMPG; 12.2 Material efficiency)
- Standard accounts for tracking tourism and the environment (UN ST_EEV_STDACCT; 12.b Sustainable tourism accounting)
- Environment and sustainability taught in schools (score) (UN SE_SGE_ENVSUST; 12.8 Education for sustainability)
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