Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 of 24 June 2024 on nature restoration has been published today in the Official Journal of the European Union. It enters into force on 18 August 2024...

Recent natural disasters, such as the catastrophic and tragic flooding in Germany and neighbouring countries are making it increasingly difficult to ignore the new reality of ...

In the second episode in our video series, Cillian and Áine discuss the impact of the recently published European Commission guidance and the ESA proposals to amend SFDR...

The Irish Government recently announced the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund as part of the Budget 2024, which demonstrates firm political and financial support for infrastructure investment in Ireland.

The CJEU delivered a significant judgment today in Eco Advocacy. Six questions were referred by the Irish High Court. The CJEU held as follows...

Following years of intense legislative effort, much political debate, trilogue negotiations between EU co-legislators and a provisional agreement, the European Union's Corporate Sustainability...

The Irish Government has secured approval for revisions to the Heat (Networks and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, legislation designed to accelerate district heating adoption across Ireland. Research indicates that waste heat from data centres and pharmaceutical plants could meet approximately 80% of Dublin's heat demand by 2050, potentially heating over 1 million homes through renewable and waste heat sources.

The Government of Ireland published the Climate Action Plan 2023, a sectoral roadmap for meeting decarbonisation targets.

Ireland moves forward with legislation to implement the EU Deforestation Regulation, introducing supply chain due diligence requirements for commodities like cattle, cocoa, coffee, and wood. The draft bill aims to ensure products placed on the Irish market are certified as deforestation-free, with enforcement beginning in December 2026.

This is the new edition of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Update, the monthly bulletin of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Group focused on recent developments in the industry sectors that we believe may be of particular interest to you including all key domestic and European news

Michelle Martin, a partner in the Environment & Planning team at William Fry is joined by planning consultant Luke Wymer to discuss the planning policy reforms proposed by the 2024 Act...

The Commission approved a €150 million Greek measure to support the construction of a carbon storage facility. The aid will take the form of a direct grant...

Ireland is widely acknowledged to be the data centre capital of Europe.

This is the June edition of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Update, the monthly bulletin of the Arthur Cox Environment & Planning Group focused on recent developments in the industry sectors ...

Michelle Martin, a partner in the Environment & Planning team at William Fry hosts David Brown Senior Counsel and Gavin Lawlor, planning consultant and the current President of the Irish Planning...

The Commission approved a €1.3 billion German measure made available in part through the Recovery and Resilience Facility ("RRF") to support a Germany entity in decarbonising part of their steel production processes.

On 10 December 2025, the European Commission presented a package of measures to simplify environmental legislation in the areas of industrial emissions, circular economy, environmental assessments and geospatial data.

The 2010 Planning Act expanded the categories of projects that may qualify for strategic infrastructure status to include a very broad definition of "health infrastructure" of "a health care facility providing in-patient services, but excluding a development which is predominantly for the purpose of providing care services within the meaning given to that term by section 3 of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009".

Following their adoption and publication in draft form by the European Commission last June, two new EU Taxonomy delegated acts were published in the Official Journal on 21 November...