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
Making it Work Future Planet: Veteran software entrepreneur turns skills to helping firms tackle climate crisisCork city-based Donal Daly’s firm aims to radically overhaul the ESG reporting landscape for companies looking to comply with new legislation
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
Comment Anton Savage: Are we willing to spend a bit extra to save the planet? Of course we’re notWe’re still not willing to part with an extra cent to help the environment, a fact that policymakers will have to get their heads around
ESG ESG never promised to be ‘golden egg’ but death greatly exaggerated: sustainable investment bossJames Alexander, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association, has dismissed concerns that enthusiasm for ESG is waning
LGBTQ+ Oisín O’Reilly: Businesses must avoid ‘rainbow washing’ this PrideIt’s essential to recognise the symbiotic relationship between LGBTQ+ organisations and corporate allies, but support must be genuine
Investing Kathleen Gallagher: ESG 2.0 doesn’t just matter for sustainable investing, it matters for future of funds industryThe Baillie Gifford debacle and wider ESG backlash shows that fund managers have an expandability problem that is hurting them
Interview Irish Funds boss on ESG: ‘There's been a retreat... it needs to evolve’ Colm McDonagh tells our markets correspondent about the lack of financial engagement, the changing industry and why other countries have skin in the game
Sustainability Irish fintech Fexco announces carbon data analytics platform for travel sectorThe company said it would allow the airport and corporate travel sectors to measure and mitigate their emissions
Sustainability Flogas to help firms reduce scope 3 emissions with natural gas refuelling station Station will support large firms looking to reduce their emissions by switching their heavy-goods vehicles to Bio-CNG
News Richard Branson-backed Auticon offering Irish firms neurodiversity in hiringThe new Irish head of the world’s largest autistic-majority company has seen a a greater focus on neurodiversity as part of the growing ESG landscape
The Big Picture Exxon plays hardball with its own shareholders over climate crisisOil giants seems to have decided only way to keep investors from creating a fuss over climate change is to sue them into silence
Legal New EU legislation set to ‘trigger change’ in Irish firms’ ESG approachJonathan Moore said he wasn’t surprised ESG was falling down the agenda at prominent firms
ESG ESG falling off the agenda at top firms in Europe and US Analysis shows that climate-focused issues are dropping off the agenda across the US and Europe
Comment & Analysis Aidan Regan: Businesses and banks are turning their backs on the climate crisisAn anti-green agenda is rising across Europe and the next policy agenda is likely to include a rejection of climate science
Making it Work Energy upgrades firm Watt Footprint seeks to double revenues to €6m this yearThe Westmeath-based firm is set to secure an investment of €5 million, aiding its expansion into the UK and UAE
ESG Prince Albert of Monaco sounds warning on rising temperatures Stark warning sounded on damage done to world’s oceans at Global Economic Summit in Killarney
Regulation Over 50 per cent of new European funds classified ‘sustainable’ as regulation under reviewFigures from Maples Group show there was an increase in the number of funds that are considered ‘sustainability focused’
Diary Diageo’s Barry O’Sullivan: Behind the scenes at our exciting €100m announcement for St James’ GateDiageo’s Ireland MD takes us inside a highly significant week for the owner of the world-famous Guinness brand
Analysis Analysis: Why renewable electricity is Ireland’s greatest climate opportunity, and riskBusiness Post policy editor Daniel Murray examines two seemingly contradictory reports