Saoirse McHugh is a political activist who has made a big impression in the two years since she first ran for election.

The former Green Party member, the subject of this week’s Five Degrees of Change podcast, reveals the steps she would take to make the global environment a more liveable place

HSE scrambles to reorganise ongoing rollout amid disruption to over-50s plan while IBM and Salesforce are hired to develop vaccine passport app to restart travel sector

Retrofit of flats around Dublin city needed to meet climate change targets

Delivery schedules and vaccine restrictions make it highly likely HSE will have to administer over 400,000 vaccines a week by June

Michael E Mann, one of the world's best known climate scientists, gives his Five Degrees of Change for a better relationship with the planet.

European companies will have to integrate climate change into their commercial and investment decisions under new proposals

Finbarr Kenny, director of Roche Ireland, said he had discussed the move with health authorities in recent weeks

The Pennsylvania State University climatologist, whose legendary ‘hockey stick’ graph drove home the pace of global warming two decades ago, reveals what he would do to make a real difference to the global environment

As director of the Irish diagnostics arm of Swiss pharma giant Roche, Finbarr Kenny has navigated a whirlwind year for the firm, in which he oversaw the delivery of more than 1.5 million Covid-19 tests into the country

Under new proposals, reporting of environmental impacts and activities of businesses will be on a par with financial information, says EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness

US climatologist Michael Mann says urgent action is needed, but planetary systems will stabilise if we bring carbon emissions down

There are now six battery projects connected to the electricity grid on the island of Ireland, four of which were connected in the last month

Enel X, which helps businesses provide energy reduction services to grid operators, says policymakers are looking to Ireland as a ‘vision of the future’

Energy-related emissions for 2021 are on track to return to 2019 levels as the world’s economy rebounds

The lecturer in the Environment, Sustainability and Social Justice at Maynooth University on a just transition for the most vulnerable and why she only buys second hand clothes

Of all the public health tools that have been deployed in the battle against Covid-19, it may be two new ones that ultimately allow the return to something resembling normal life

The latest interviewee in the Business Post’s 5 Degrees of Change podcast, campaigner and lecturer Sinéad Mercier, on climate justice, challenging her own perceptions, and why she only buys secondhand clothes

The governance structures of Soni’s ‘extremely limited’ board are in need of an overhaul, according to a new report

Ireland is in line for 2.2 million J&J shots this year but rollout is paused as US authorities look into six cases of brain blood clotting