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The Convergence Festival, a sustainability event that took place in Ireland structured around development and various environmental initiatives, was Ireland’s longest running sustainability festival. The festival was established in 2000 and occurred until 2018. An early mission statement for the convention is that they were “working to promote social justice, enhance our health or help us to live in a more environmentally sustainable way.”

History
The Convergence Festival was an event focusing on various environmental initiatives that began in Dublin, Ireland in the spring of 2000. The festival later expanded to multiple counties in Ireland, occasionally occurring multiple times a year.

The first mission statement that the festival put out is as follows:

The event aims to assess Irish perceptions of sustainability, draw attention to and promote ‘best practice’ models and act as a communications and education platform. It will disseminate valuable information on the astounding variety of positive ideas, projects and initiatives currently helping to bring about a move to an more sustainable way of life. ‘Convergence’ will encourage participation and dialogue on topics ranging from holistic health to permaculture, economics to community building, agriculture to agriculture, business practice to renewable energy, debt to Agenda 21.

Event Details
Ireland's Convergence Festivals brought together some of the country’s top leaders and learners in sustainability. Each festival captured a wide variety of subjects, including collaborations with several sustainable businesses and organizations. Convergence Festivals featured a theme that each festival’s respective events followed. Some referred to the themes of the festival as “counter-culture” festival’s themes of the festival as “counter-culture.” The festival created a place for critics of Ireland’s sustainable policy to gather and discuss the topic through different mediums such as music, theatre, and films.

The festival defined “sustainability” as the following:

Sustainability has been defined as 'Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. It seeks to improve the quality of our health, our society's health and the health of our environment through the recognition that these things are linked.