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The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation ("SFDR") applied from 10 March 2021 and financial market participants, which include AIFMs, UCITS management companies and self-managed investment companies.

Construction has not been easy in Ireland. Tight margins, boom-bust decades, and now a labyrinth of legislation to try and navigate in between managing the day job on site.

Ireland's Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2026 introduces significant reforms to judicial review procedures and planning law, while new EU packaging regulations and climate action consultations signal major environmental policy shifts. Key court decisions address wind turbine noise nuisance and water quality obligations under EU directives.

Sustainable finance is the provision of finance to investments taking into account environmental, social and governance considerationsi.

The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 has been signed into law committing the State to 2030 and 2050 targets for reducing greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions...

The past week has been a busy one for developments in the EU sustainable finance sphere, with the ESAs publishing a consultation on proposed amendments to the SFDR Level 2 Measures...

Ireland's Budget 2025 is characterised by its significant investment in infrastructure which has been described as an ‘absolute priority' for the Irish Government.

The Council of the EU's position on the proposal to simplify due diligence rules for batteries has been approved by the Committee of Permanent Representatives.

The Central Bank's Annual Report 2021 and Annual Performance Statement 2022, published yesterday (30 May 2022), gives a useful summary of the Central Bank's priorities...

The Supreme Court (Court) upheld the High Court's decision to quash the refusal by An Coimisiún Pleanála (Commission), but for narrower reasons than those on which the High Court based its conclusion.

In conjunction with Wind Energy Ireland we are pleased to announce the continuation of the Niamh Burke Renewable Energy Bursary, with the firm offering a €10,000 boost to students pursuing studies related to renewable energy.

Ireland's new Building Energy Rating (BER) Regulations introduce a zero-emission building classification and simplified rating scale, fundamentally changing how building energy performance is measured and reported.

This briefing in our ESG series for Irish funds and fund management companies focuses on the EC's proposals to establish a classification system or "taxonomy" to identify whether and to what extent an economic activity ...

On 23 March 2021, the Irish government published the new Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 (the "Bill").

The consultations, which aim to update and simplify the technical screening criteria to make the taxonomy framework more user-friendly and accessible for market participants...

In 2019, the EU endorsed a new target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, it is predicted that current policies will only...

Following on from its public consultation paper in 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has now published its finalised guidance on climate change risk for Irish (re)insurers (Guidance).