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As Kamala Harris prepares to face a climate-sceptic Donald Trump in the US, new green policies are emerging in the EU and other countries where this mammoth global electoral year is further advanced.

The enormity of the climate challenge can plunge the best employees into apathy. Building sustainability skills will help not just with compliance, but spur the workforce into action and generate returns.

The offshore wind industry is gathered in Dublin for its annual conference and the Government has just published a "future framework" to meet its 2050 targets. Gaps remain to be filled in between if Ireland is to fulfil its potential.

New EU legislation to protect and restore huge swathes of the region within very strict deadlines has managed to get through a number of stages in Brussels. It now faces its final hurdle in the European Council, where the opposition is mounting.

Rising temperatures across the world are making many regions uninhabitable, resulting in mass population shifts. Nations must now start to accept immigration as a climate adaptation strategy.

Irrespective of the progress achieved by international talks, the world will move on from fossil fuels. 2024 is the year for business leaders to meet the climate expectations of customers, investors and regulators.

Running your business sustainably begins with understanding what you’re talking about. From biodiversity to zero waste, this is a quick guide to the words behind the action.

The budget is making funding available for both short-term and long-term investments in Ireland's sustainability. Two questions help assess its promises: Is it enough? And is it fair?

Farmers and politicians are flocking to this week’s Ploughing in an atmosphere of distrust after the nitrates derogation was repealed. The missed opportunity to turn excess farm waste into biogas illustrates poor joined-up thinking in national policy.

Transforming organisations to be sustainable is an exercise in human leadership, but humans are not mobilised by strategies and reports. Here is how to create communities that will achieve ESG goals – and the role different people in your business can play in the process.