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...

Founding partner Philip Lee and partners Lev Gantly and Anna Hickey from our climate finance team will be attending the Airline Economics Sustainable Aviation fuel and Carbon Finance day on February 1 in the RDS.

On 23 November 2022, EFRAG delivered, as technical advice, the first set of draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS") to the European Commission. Once adopted by the Commission...

The European Commission has adopted a delegated regulation setting out the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS") under the Corporate...

We consider the extent to which energy-related goals feature in the policy programme that has been published by the new Irish government.

On 13 June 2023, the European Commission (the "Commission") published a significant sustainable finance package on EU Taxonomy, ESG ratings and transition finance.

In April, the European Commission published "an ambitious and comprehensive" package of measures to continue its work to channel money towards sustainable technologies...

Thanks largely to European energy and environmental law, Ireland is currently labouring under a number of challenging targets in renewable energy production, energy conservation and greenhouse gas elimination.

he European Water Resilience Strategy will develop a cross-sectoral plan for water and aquatic ecosystems...

The Planning and Development (Costs of Part 9 Judicial Review Proceedings) Regulations 2026, which came into operation on 18 May 2026, introduce a fixed statutory schedule of costs caps governing the legal costs recoverable by a successful applicant in planning judicial review proceedings taken under the Planning and Development Act 2024.

The new EU sustainability reporting regime for companies, set out under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)...

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities will further consult on introducing emissions requirements to the policy for connection of large energy users ...

Part 1 - Green Loans - Overview of the key features...

This Bill aims to introduce a mechanism whereby a proportion of the value of land that is attributable to zoning and land use decisions is shared with the State. On a grant of planning permission, the payment of 25%.

The European Council has formally adopted the Directive on updating the list of pollutants affecting surface water and groundwater.

Notwithstanding that pandemic loans and supports have dominated the loan market so far in 2020, green and sustainability linked loans have increased in importance and are likely to continue to do ...