Stay Informed on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Archie Villaflores

In a throwback to the Green Awards 2026, IFF Plastics took home the Green Business of the Year award, recognised for a closed-loop recycling model that transforms single-use farm and ocean plastics into fully recyclable products, recycling over 1,000 tonnes annually and delivering major carbon savings through circular economy practices and continued investment in sustainable manufacturing. The win sets a compelling benchmark for green business leadership in Ireland, demonstrating the standard of operational excellence, circular economy innovation, and measurable environmental impact that entrants will look to match now that the 2027 awards cycle is already accepting entries.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Rebecca Egan of Siemens Energy was named Green Leader at the Green Awards UK 2026. She was recognised for a significant contribution to tackling climate change and advancing environmental progress across the United Kingdom through purposeful, systems-level sustainability leadership.

Author: Archie Villaflores

EPA Research 508 or the GAPS report is Ireland’s most comprehensive assessment of Green Public Procurement policy and practice for the Irish public sector. It identifies barriers to GPP uptake, delivers a scalable procurement toolkit piloted at University of Galway, and maps the commercial opportunity within Ireland’s €20 billion annual public procurement spend.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Amazon has signed a 36MW power purchase agreement with Statkraft for the Mossy Hill wind farm near Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. The long-term contract shows how corporate buyers give developers the revenue certainty to bring new UK wind capacity to construction.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Gas Networks Ireland has opened its €32 million Central Grid Injection facility in Mitchelstown, County Cork, for biomethane producers located too far from the pipeline network. The site can inject up to 700GWh of renewable gas a year from farm and food waste.

Author: Archie Villaflores

WEEE Ireland has committed €200,000 to a new Future Fund backing repair, reuse and remanufacturing projects by electrical and battery producers. The fund shows Ireland’s producer responsibility system moving beyond recycling towards keeping products in use for longer.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Pembr has signed a 24-month corporate power purchase agreement with Pinergy to supply its 30 Dublin properties with electricity from Largan Hill Wind Farm in County Roscommon. The deal lets tenant companies report verified Scope 2 green electricity without managing their own utility contracts.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Looking back at the Green Awards 2026, Astellas Dublin took home both the Sustainable Energy Achievement Award and the Sustainability Team of the Year, recognised for a sustainability programme spanning renewables investment, F-Gas elimination, decarbonisation, and green lab initiatives that surpassed its own targets and set a blueprint for Astellas operations across Asia, Europe, and the USA. The double recognition raises the bar for energy leadership and team-driven sustainability in Ireland's life sciences sector, setting the standard of technical ambition, measurable impact, and cross-functional delivery that entrants will look to match now that the 2027 awards cycle is already accepting entries.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Pure Data Centres Group swept both the Green ICT, Media & Telecommunications award and the Green Business of the Year at the recently concluded Green Awards UK 2026, recognised for a sustainability programme spanning a 110MW microgrid, low water design, biochar integration, and carbon removal initiatives.

Author: Archie Villaflores

The EPA’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990–2025 confirms Ireland’s emissions decreased by 2.2 per cent (1.2 Mt CO₂eq) in 2025. Ireland provisionally remained within its first legally binding carbon budget, coming in 1.1 Mt CO₂eq under the cumulative cap.