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Five Degrees of Change: Simon Sharpe on turbocharging climate action

Five Degrees of Change is the Business Post's energy and environment podcast

Seizing Russian assets to help pay to rebuild Ukraine proves complicated for governments

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, around $358 billion worth of assets have been frozen around the world, but relatively little has been actually seized

Economic challenges remain as Erdogan seals election victory

The Turkish president won by 52.2 per cent to 47.8 per cent in a run-off vote against rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu

In this week’s Business Post: Three out of four think Ireland has taken too many refugees, RedC poll reveals

RTÉ challenges decision that Late Late band member is an ‘employee’ and our columnists on Succession, Meta’s fine and so-called ‘FFG’

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Minister moves centre stage

She may have angered Fianna Fáil by calling for tax cuts, but it’s part of the party’s efforts to stand out in the coalition

Post Script: politicians go podcasting, tech sector highs and lows, Seanad gets a visitor

The Business Post takes a look at the scenes behind the stories

Northern Irish tech firms buck the trend with strong performances

A number of companies are proving that steady expansion can be better than being a ‘unicorn’ in the current climate

Five Degrees of Change

‘You have to understand what is the worst that can happen and how might you stop it’

Physicist and British civil servant Simon Sharpe has been on a mission to wake his government up to the dangers of climate change

‘We are losing business. We know that’ – tourism grapples with refugee crisis

Fáilte Ireland chief Paul Kelly is unqualified in his support for Ireland’s response to the refugee crisis – but says the damage to Irish tourism will be difficult to undo if the state doesn’t act quickly to return hotels to tourism

Richard Fitzpatrick: Attacks on Vinícius reflect racist undercurrent in Spanish culture

Valencia football fans’ on-pitch taunting of the Real Madrid star – and some local reaction to it – has brought international condemnation

Jordi Murphy joins his old agent to pursue a different kind of winning partnership in professional rugby

Former Ireland star plans extra time career with Navy Blue managing other professionals

The Big Interview

‘I wanted to do something in health but I didn’t want to be a doctor’: Ochre Bio founder Jack O’Meara

The start-up’s chief executive has gone from improv comedy to pitching Silicon Valley’s elite in bid to find liver disease therapy

‘It beggars belief a wee bit’: denied bank loans, mica families left in the lurch

With bills mounting up and little access to credit from banks, homeowners say they are unable to fund the cost of rebuilding their destroyed houses

Positive Carbon puts laser focus on pricey problem of food waste

The Irish start-up uses food-waste sensors to identify and log every item of food that is put in the bin in hotels and catering companies

RedSky planning to raise up to €15m to develop tax services platform

RedSky Europe, which was set up as a localised fulfilment centre for e-commerce businesses to store and dispatch inventory, is planning to expand its new Vat management platform called Taxmatic across Europe

Marion McKeone: US conservatives hit Target where it hurts in row over Pride merch

The latest attack on a corporation which defends LGBTQ rights has come from a group that backs Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign

Matt Cooper: O’Gara’s finest hour in beating Leinster shows how important managers are

Despite what he says, Sam Allardyce is not among the world’s greatest football coaches – but our very own Ronan O’Gara is one of rugby’s best

Rolling Donut boss turns attention to healthy treat market with Clever Foods acquisition

Lisa Quinlan has seen the family business expand from its one iconic stall in O’Connell Street to four individual brands

Analysis: Meta’s ‘innocent bystander’ act in data transfer dogfight is disingenuous following record fine

Given Meta has pumped $10 billion a year on the metaverse, for no real return, it is unlikely to break into a sweat over the DPC’s €1.2bn fine

Biden’s G-7 focus in Japan disrupted by Washington debt fight

Talks between the White House and Republicans stalled over the weekend, with McCarthy saying there couldn’t be progress until Biden returned