In March 2011, the Irish High Court temporarily reversed a 10 year practice of imposing personal liability on company officers to pay for environmental clean up of the company’s waste.

The proposed restriction of PFAS across the EU continues to progress and could potentially impact various sectors, including for example aerospace and defence, automotive, aviation, food contact materials, textiles, leather and apparel, construction and household products, electronics, firefighting, food processing, and medical articles.

The Commission for Energy Regulation now regulates the safety of offshore and onshore oil and gas activities under the Petroleum Safety Framework.

The Commission is consulting until 6 September 2024 on a proposed procedure to give public access to judicial procedures to challenge specific decisions on State aid measures that allegedly contravene EU environmental law.

This briefing in our ESG series for funds and fund management companies focuses on the European Commission's proposals to integrate sustainability risks and factors into the AIFMD and UCITS...

On 22 February 2021, the EU Commission published a consultation on an inception impact assessment roadmap (IIA Roadmap) for revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU.

The Platform on Sustainable Finance has published its Extended Environmental Taxonomy: Final Report on Taxonomy extension options supporting a sustainable transition (29 March)...

We have recently written on various topics relating to sustainable finance, including social loan principles, greenwashing and the EU Taxonomy Regulation and the related screening criteria.

On 18 June 2019 the European Commission published a series of guidelines and reports as part of its action plan on sustainable finance (the "Action Plan"),

The 10th National Business Post Property Summit 2023 took place on Tuesday, 28 November with delegates from across the Irish real estate market.

The European Commission has proposed targeted amendments to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) to streamline implementation for downstream operators and traders, and for micro- and small undertakings...

Ireland is implementing a new Building Energy Rating (BER) system from 24 May 2026, introducing zero emissions building categories and simplified certification scales.

Wind farm projects frequently face challenges and litigation from persons and groups seeking to stop projects entirely.

In the latest in our series of ESG publications, we take a look at the ECB's preliminary views on the steps Banks are taking to address climate and environmental (C&E) risks.

The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR), among other matters, imposes disclosure requirements on financial market participants and...

The ESAs reiterate their common high-level understanding of greenwashing as a practice whereby sustainability-related statements, declarations, actions...

On 14 December, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a Public Statement updating its proposals for guidelines on funds' names using ESG or sustainability-related terms...

Irish legislation transposing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has not been published, but is anticipated in advance of the July transposition deadline.

Green Public Procurement ("GPP") is a process whereby public bodies seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life-cycle...