The global backlash against green regulation has forced a reckoning among climatetech founders and investors, but they say resource efficiency remains an attractive sector to start and grow companies.
Kinsale-based Zirkulu has been working to develop truly sustainable alternatives to waterproof gear. Founders Fionn McCarthy and Jack Norman talk about how a lockdown project has morphed into a fully-fledged sustainable brand.
Change by Degrees, the business co-founded by Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray to help companies and their staff achieve “sustainability as a superpower”, is closing down in the face of green policy roll-backs.
GT Group and Ted Brennan Motors will build on the two companies' experience in vehicle recovery, crash repair, and salvage auctioning using carbon-labelled green parts.
The National Economic and Social Council brings together the pillars of society to try and shape the State's strategies. While little known, its balanced positions often get absorbed almost by osmosis.
The move to stop the clock on CSRD and CSDDD reporting frustrates those companies that have made efforts to understand their non-financial risks – yet this remains business-critical.
From combating greenwashing to securing 200,000 Irish customers, Refurbed CEO Kilian Kaminski talks to The Currency about the refurbished tech marketplace’s Irish business.
The venture arm of the construction supplies giant is steadily amassing a portfolio of tech and sustainability start-ups.
Amanda Pratt, one of the Avoca siblings, talks about life after leaving the leading Irish brand and going in a different direction with her new shop, Amo & Pax.
The Irish company has been in business for 20 years and has annual revenues of around €30m. It is now joining Finland’s Purmo Group.
© 2026 Currency Media Limited
