Full coverage: sustainability

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.

While energy supply and interest rates fuel short-term uncertainty, what is certain is that damage to the ecosystem will destroy business in the long term. In her first column for The Currency, climate scientist Dr Tara Shine argues that the best response to current turmoil is to plan now for a more resilient future.

When Giselle Makinde left Brazil, she knew she would find work anywhere as a trained chef. However, she didn’t expect to own an Irish business turning surplus ingredients into high-end ice cream.

Kerry-born designer Don O’Neill may have enjoyed the “Meghan effect” but it wasn’t enough to save his job in light of Covid-19. From his brownstone in New York, he talks about burn out, the vagaries of fashion and why he won't start from scratch again.