Sustainability reporting obligations under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), as transposed into Irish law, commence for large Irish-incorporated...

Seanad Éireann completed committee stage of the Planning and Development Bill on 17 July 2024. An updated version of the Bill is available here.

Operators of landfill sites are obliged to charge fees for disposal of waste which must be sufficient to cover.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that appropriate assessments of plans or projects affecting special protection areas cannot be validly conducted without pre-established site-specific conservation objectives. This landmark judgment addresses whether conservation objectives are a prerequisite for environmental impact assessments under the Habitats Directive, with significant implications for development consent procedures across the EU.

Our first article in this series discussed recent caselaw which considered greenwashing practices in the context of consumer legalisation and also, looked at recent regulatory intervention in this area...

The recent dismissal by the High Court (Court) of a judicial review of the N2 Slane Bypass scheme highlights a rising feature of planning litigation: challenges based on alleged deficiencies...

Ireland's Minister for Agriculture has published the draft General Scheme of the Deforestation and Forest Degradation Bill 2026, establishing the national enforcement framework for the EU Deforestation Regulation.

In 2013, the Irish High Court awarded €400,000 in compensation to two fishery companies.

In this chapter, Peter Stapleton, Ronan Cremin and Jennifer Dobbyn provide an insight into Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) law including principal sources of ESG pressure, integration of ESG

The Aviva Stadium was selected to host the 2024 Europa League Final. We examine how UEFA selects its host cities through a sustainability and social responsibility lens.

The new Commercial Planning and Environmental List is aimed at creating a more efficient system for dealing with planning and environmental cases in Ireland.

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 was published in the Official Journal on 22 December 2023. It contains the first set of EU sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

On 28 February 2023, the Council of the European Union ("EU") and the European Parliament announced that a provisional agreement had been reached on the European Green Bond Regulation...

Climate related litigation continues to evolve, with several recent landmark decisions shaping the global legal landscape. In this update, we consider the broad trends in recent climate litigation...

In March 2023, the European Commission (Commission) detailed a proposal for a green claims directive (GCD Proposal)...

The European Commission signalled plans to progress decarbonisation, electrification and competitiveness in a Communication on the Clean Industrial Deal and an Action Plan for Affordable Energy.

The Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment published an initial decision on non-price criteria in renewable energy auctions, required...

The European Commission is calling for evidence and consulting until 14 November 2025 on the scope and content of its revision of the Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring...

William Fry LLP was pleased to act for Tesco Ireland Limited in its successful defence of a judicial review challenge to its grant of planning permission for a new Tesco store...

On 23 June 2025, the Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir MLA, formally introduced his renewed ‘Dilapidations Bill' before the Northern Ireland Assembly.