Full coverage: Climate change

An Coimisiún Pleanála made an “error of law” in refusing permission to a Laois wind farm, the Supreme Court found – but a key section of the Climate Act cannot “carry the full weight of the State’s response to climate change”.

For years, investors and regulators asked asset managers to go green. A Trump-led backlash tells them it no longer matters, or not now. Flooding shows nature doesn’t seem to get the message.

Meta, Microsoft, and Google have pledged €3m to finance peatland restoration across 1,100 acres of degraded peatland sites in the Wicklow mountains. How will this translate into real-world conservation?

Regulations should be judged not by their aims but by their effects. From housing standards to climate policy, well-meaning rules in Ireland risk pricing people out of homes and stifling urban renewal — unless policymakers properly weigh costs, benefits, and trade-offs.

Origin Enterprises is on course to diversify a third of profits outside its 200-year-old agribusiness, says Sean Coyle, but not necessarily as a listed company.

The idea of a just transition emerged to address fears that the move away from fossil fuels could leave many people behind. It is now translating into real-life opportunities.

From the impact of battery production to fleet management, there is now an answer to every piece of misinformation circulating about electric cars.

Even before Éowyn, the creeping scale of costs was becoming clear as storms and their impacts worsened. As climate breakdown reaches Ireland, private and public coffers will be hit harder and harder.

Flood risk is no longer invisible in Ireland. The same needs to happen for the wider climate risks shaping the homes we build, buy, and live in.

Sustainability-focused VCs gathered in Wicklow to look for investment opportunities in Irish companies. Event mastermind Faye Walsh Drouillard says funds are looking to Ireland for new opportunities and she wants to put the country on the map.