Planning Local authority plans ‘clearly designed’ to block wind farms – Wind Energy IrelandLocal authorities zoning land slated for wind farm developments is driving the number of planning rejections, according to the industry body
Climate & Environment Irish fin-tech firm invests €1.8 million in new platform that aims to prevent greenwashingThe hub manages the organisation of data from businesses’ value chains and provides live, streamlined data for producing sustainability reports.
Markets T. Rowe Price bets on blue bond market Blue bonds are debt instruments that help protect or revive the world’s oceans in the face of climate change, overfishing and pollution
Infrastructure Port of Cork calls for permanent border control post as thousands of containers re-routed each yearUp to 146,000 extra food miles generated each month as food imports re-routed to Belgium and the UK
Climate & Environment Analysis: Reality check needed on Europe’s hydrogen policy ambitionsSerious gaps between ambition and reality remain all along the fledgling hydrogen supply chain and the EU is now unlikely to meet its 2030 targets
Comment Eamon Ryan: My pitch to industry and investors that Ireland is a clean energy powerhouse The climate and environment minister writes that Ireland will continue to push to attract investment and grow jobs in the renewable energy sector
tourism ‘Cool-cationing’: As holidaymakers escape extreme heat, is Ireland in line for a tourism boost? Nordic climates are boosting Scandinavian economies. Could Ireland’s temperamental temperatures do the same?
Energy Ireland has ‘up to two years’ before it misses out on the AI boom. Here’s what it needs to do nowCiaran Forde said the tech sector was in the middle of a ‘four-year pivot’
Investing As the UK ends its de facto ban on onshore wind, is it time to invest in renewables?Kathleen Gallagher runs through green stocks catching the eyes of analysts following Labour’s announcement
ESG In numbers: The pinch-points facing firms as new ESG reporting rules are signed into Irish lawCertain companies - including Irish firms - must make detailed disclosures about their sustainability performance from next year
Energy Wind energy halves from March to June sending prices higherWind Energy Ireland warned that up to 76 Irish wind farms with an installed capacity of 854 megawatts will reach the end of their planning permissions between now and 2030
Motoring Nearly one-third of electric car owners want to switch back to petrol - surveyConcerns expressed by EV motorists over range anxiety and the charging infrastructure available to them only the roads
Energy John Teeling: ‘For decades Ireland was a beacon for exploration... No longer’Entrepreneur’s resource firm is exploring operations abroad as ‘bureaucratic delays’ make Ireland unattractive for mining
Energy Pillar banks buy in to state low-cost retrofitting schemeWith credit unions set to sign up in the coming weeks, the scheme is expected to boost market competition
Politics Aidan Regan: It is because Eamon Ryan was so effective that the Greens are hatedHistory will be kind to the outgoing leader, but his successor needs to be combative to fight against the anti-Green backlash
Economy Ireland drops two places to fourth most competitive economy, amid fall in economic performanceResearch indicated a steep decline in Irish executives’ views on the impact of labour laws on business, with Ireland falling from eighth to 31st place
EU Controversial EU nature restoration law approved despite Austrian feudAustria came on side at the last minute to clinch a deal that Eamon Ryan said everyone assumed was ‘dead’
Tech Exclusive: State invests $65m in climate tech funds led by Sean O’Sullivan’s SOSVISIF is backing an Ireland-specific biomanufacturing fund amid plans to make the state a leading hub globally
Aviation Michael O’Leary urges Ireland to oppose ‘madcap’ end to aviation fuel tax exemptionO’Leary claimed that Ireland’s economy depended on rejecting the ‘penal and discriminatory’ fuel tax
Sustainability Small firms ahead of larger peers in taking climate actionCost still remains the number one to barrier to firms implementing green initiatives