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Green Awards 2027 now accepting entries
The Green Awards 2027 is now open for entries, inviting businesses of all sizes to showcase their commitment to sustainable business practice ahead of the 30 October deadline. The awards gala will take place on 23 February 2027 at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, bringing together hundreds of senior executives from across Ireland's sustainability community.
Ireland’s NTMA Green Finance Architecture Is Performing Ahead of Schedule and Open for Commercial Engagement
The NTMA published its Climate Action Strategy 2025–2028 Annual Review on 1 July 2026, confirming that Ireland’s sovereign green finance architecture is performing ahead of schedule. For Irish businesses, the green finance opportunity is open, well-funded and ready for engagement.
Lloyds sets £100 billion sustainable and transition finance target as banks broaden green taxonomy to capture hard-to-abate sectors
Lloyds Banking Group has announced a £100 billion sustainable and transition finance target for 2027 to 2030, incorporating transition finance for the first time. Expanding beyond purely green activities to cover hard-to-abate sector decarbonisation is the structural shift that makes the UK banking market's climate finance commitments commercially viable.
Turley strengthens Cardiff sustainability team as converging building standards create a technical depth gap
Turley has appointed Tom King as Associate Director in its Sustainability and ESG team, based in Cardiff. Simultaneous changes to the Future Homes Standard, Future Buildings Standard and TM54 operational energy requirements are creating planning submission demands that generalist sustainability advice can no longer satisfy.
Celtic House Holdings transitions to EOT as founder chooses community retention over trade sale exit
Glyn Hyett has chosen employee ownership over a trade sale to keep jobs in Ceredigion. The EOT model's CGT exemption makes that community-retention outcome financially viable.
Entegro acquires ACEL Energy to complete an end-to-end power and communications infrastructure platform
Entegro has acquired ACEL Energy to combine solar PV, BESS and high-voltage engineering with its fibre infrastructure expertise. Data centres and grid modernisation now demand both power and communications capability from a single contractor, making this acquisition commercially necessary.
SSE Airtricity takes 40% stake in Activ8 to convert an installer relationship into an integrated solar services platform
SSE Airtricity has acquired a 40% stake in Activ8 Solar Energies with an option for a further 10%. Activ8's subsequent growth to 25,000 installations and 270 employees validates the commercial logic of the early investment.
John Paul Construction wins Green Construction Award at the Green Awards 2026
Rewinding back to the Green Awards 2026, John Paul Construction took home the Green Construction Award, recognised earlier this year for a comprehensive sustainability programme spanning hybrid power, HVO fuel, circular construction, digital innovation, and nature-positive partnerships. The win sets a powerful benchmark for sustainability excellence in Ireland's construction sector, demonstrating the standard of depth, discipline, and organisation-wide environmental commitment that future entrants in the category for the 2027 cycle will be expected to match.
Sumitomo joins Gwynt Glas consortium as floating offshore wind's capital requirements demand institutional three-way structures
ESB's stake in a 1.5GW Celtic Sea project makes Ireland's state utility a direct participant in what could become the largest renewable infrastructure investment in Welsh waters.
Ramboll appoints a dedicated UK and Ireland water lead as AMP8 makes sector credibility a commercial prerequisite
A Water Sector Lead hire covering both jurisdictions simultaneously is less an organisational chart change than a client engagement strategy. AMP8 and Uisce Éireann's capital programmes both require named technical and commercial authority at the table, and Ramboll now has one person covering both.
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