For a company helping industries shrink their carbon footprint, 2024 promises to be a year of growth for Climeaction following a €2.3m fundraise last month. CEO Paul Murphy traces the shift from kickstarter to big player.
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.
A dispute between a developer and a council over installing electric car chargers in a Dún Laoghaire development highlights the gap between the State's climate ambitions and the bureaucratic reality on the ground. One climate-conscious homeowner is not sitting idle, however.
The corporate world has long invested time and money in activities doing more harm than good to the natural world. With biodiversity now living on borrowed time, UCD’s Shane McGuinness is leading the drive to flip the script.
The government broke the internal deadlock on cuts needed from agriculture but in this podcast Thomas Hubert and Stephen Kinsella analyse the realities of what Ireland needs to do.
Thursday's announcement of most carbon ceilings for sectors of the Irish economy has clarified the direction of travel, but almost one quarter of the necessary emissions reductions remain to be found.
Like the NASA officials who learned from the Challenger space shuttle disaster, the leaders who set climate targets must deal in a world of reality. Listening to the current debate in Ireland, it seems they are not.
Having raised expectations with a sugar-coated Climate Action Plan last year, Eamon Ryan and Charlie McConalogue are faced with the hard reality of carbon budgeting figures. It could be make-or-break time for the coalition.
The Irish Petroleum Industry Association is dead, long live Fuels for Ireland. The industry body representing oil importers and distributors and Ireland's only refinery has acknowledged that its members won't sustain their businesses into the future by selling fossil fuels.
The Programme for Government has promised €9.5 billion to help households and farmers become greener, funded by a four-fold increase in carbon tax over the coming decade. Data compiled by tax officials shows this is unlikely to happen.
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