The Climate Action Plan 2024 features feed additives for cows, the electrification of public transport lines and an offshore innovation park – as well as a large black hole on land use policy.
COP28 has failed because it could not get beyond tinkering with the energy system. Ireland’s offshore wind resource is one of the required substitutes to fossil fuels if the world is to clear this hurdle.
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.
Kevin McPartlan represents forecourt retailers, home fuel distributors and an oil refinery. Despite the consensus for net-zero carbon emissions, he sees a future for his industry.
Ireland has had a seat at the table in key negotiations to set up a fund to support the world’s poorest from the worst impacts of climate change. Climate talks opening today will reveal how much the global North is willing to chip in.
Pioneering legislation drove ISIF to sell off most of its fossil fuel investments, but not all. Billions in private bonds and shares also continue to flow to the industry through Ireland.
Complex rules and decades of inaction in tackling unlicensed activity have left the courtroom as the last avenue for change. The environmental watchdog is now leading the charge.
When Covid-19 decimated revenue from energy projects, Norman Crowley refocused his business on its data-crunching software. Now CoolPlanet is adding mining EVs to its offering and Crowley is upfront about what works and what doesn’t (especially livestock farming).
The fiscal costs of climate change are going to be very large, there is no getting around that. We just need to decide when to incur the costs, and at what speed to adjust our way of life. We have chosen, so far, to do neither.
Backed with €68 million of ISIF money, the $4 billion New York investment firm Energy Impact Partners is seeking companies to back while nurturing Ireland’s climate tech ecosystem.
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