Stay Informed on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Archie Villaflores

Ireland’s Department of Transport published the country’s first Sustainable Aviation Fuel Policy Roadmap on 21 August 2025, setting out four pathways for SAF development, production and uptake. The roadmap positions Ireland’s agri-food feedstock base and green energy infrastructure as a credible platform for SAF supply chain investment.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Turning back the clock to the Green Awards 2026, Panda took home the Green Technology Award (Over 50 Employees), recognised earlier this year for the Cleaner Bin Imaging Service, a human-centred innovation that combines technology, behavioural science, and consumer education to deliver measurable reductions in recycling contamination and clear operational efficiency gains at scale. The win raises the bar for environmental innovation in Ireland's waste management sector, setting the standard of scalable impact, consumer-centred design, and measurable sustainability outcomes that entrants will look to match when the 2027 awards cycle opens.

Author: Archie Villaflores

David Maguire, Founder and CEO of BNRG Renewables, joins the judging panel for the Green Transformation Awards 2026, bringing over 25 years of experience across the environmental and renewable energy sectors, including the development of more than 5.5 GW of active solar projects across the USA, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and Australia.

Author: Archie Villaflores

The Central Statistics Office has published Ireland’s first statistical portrait of enterprise sustainability performance, finding that only 29 per cent of Irish businesses took measures to reduce energy consumption in 2022. The two-part series maps the energy efficiency, circular economy and digital innovation opportunity for Irish enterprises through 2030.

Author: Archie Villaflores

US-based geothermal energy company Quaise Energy has raised $134 million at the first close of a Series B round to fund Project Obsidian, the world's first commercial superhot geothermal power plant, located in Oregon.

Author: Archie Villaflores

London-based circular fashion marketplace Fleek has raised $25 million in a Series B round to scale its AI-powered platform digitising the sourcing, grading, and trading of secondhand apparel across global supply chains.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish contractor John Paul Construction has become a founding partner of the Sustainability Common Assessment, a new industry-wide initiative standardising ESG evaluation across the Irish construction supply chain.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Nordic Climate Group has acquired Northern Refrigeration Services, a Donegal-based specialist in refrigeration, heat pumps, and heating solutions, strengthening its presence in the north-west of Ireland.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Nicholas Holden, Director of R&D at Proveye and academic director of the Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme, joins the judging panel for the Green Transformation Awards 2026, bringing research leadership in bioeconomy systems, sustainable agriculture, and environmental impact quantification.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Recalling one of the winners at the Green Awards 2026, AbbVie took home the Green Lifesciences Award, recognised earlier this year for a science-based sustainability programme across its Irish operations that delivered a 21 percent thermal energy reduction, an 18 percent CO₂ reduction, and 100 percent renewable electricity, all tracked against a validated Science Based Target baseline and aligned to ambitious 2030 decarbonisation goals. The win sets a high benchmark for environmental leadership in Ireland's life sciences sector, demonstrating the standard of rigorous measurement, system-wide integration, and science-driven sustainability ambition that entrants in the category for the 2027 awards will be expected to match.