Thanks to WakeUp Capital for an enlightening two-day trip on impact investing. Appreciation to Faye Walsh Drouillard for her unmatched hospitality and insights and WakeUp Capital Matias Wibowo Mark Peters and the organising team. The unpredictable rain 🌧️ in Glendalough and sunshine ☀️ during the ...

There are many principles that can guide sustainability leadership. Some of the key principles include:

What is ESG? Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles have emerged as a fundamental framework for sustainable business practices. While ESG might initially seem like an acronym-heavy buzzword, it holds significant relevance for boards of directors. This blog aims to provide an ...

ESG reporting is on a steep rise. Some of the driving factors include:

Leaders in organisations play a critical role in driving innovation and sustainability. Seven key things that leaders need to know about innovation and sustainability and how to implement them effectively:

There are several drivers for change in sustainability inspiring leaders at the C-suite and management levels, including:

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to problem-solving that recognises the interconnections and interdependencies between different components of a system. This approach emphasises the importance of considering the whole system and its impact on the individual parts, rather than just focusing ...

Each year approximately 2 billion metric tons of solid waste is produced. At least one third of this waste is not managed in an environmentally safe manner with global waste production estimated to double over the next ten years. To put this into perspective, this is enough waste to fill over 13 ...

Not all plastics are perceived to be equal. The traditional plastics industry includes the following sectors – Bio-based plastics, Biodegradable plastics, Engineering plastics, Epoxy resins, Expanded polystyrene and Fluoropolymers. Each of these sectors comprises of hundreds of firms producing ...

Different scenarios, same goal Countries across the world have always had unique energy needs. However, in recent years due to factors like climate change, many countries have adopted common goals. The EU2030 goals and Paris agreement for example, which has over 195 signatories across the world ...

Pandemic: Vigilance or Preparedness? One hundred years on from the deadliest pandemic, in history, the Spanish flu, estimates that if a similar event was to occur today, the death toll would be nearly 147 million people worldwide which would be more than the population of number of countries such ...

When civil war erupted in Syria in the spring of 2011, The International Center [sic] for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Moved now to Lebanon) had more than 140,000 packets of seeds preserved in cold storage just 19 miles south of Aleppo when it erupted into fighting. Those ...

INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY, DESIGN THINKING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STARTUP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, UCD, ENERGY INSTITUTE This year marks the 6th year of our Sustainability Launchpad in collaboration with UCD Engineering and the Energy Institute. We continue to have a massive uptake of this programme. Over ...

Summer 2018 in Ireland experienced heat that it hasn’t experienced in more than 40 years with temperatures soaring above 30℃. The reality of this situation? It was an indication that our atmosphere is overloading with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions, trapping heat around the ...

A reasonable answer to this question is “No” unless you were living in Nagasaki or Hiroshima in August 1945. What if I told you that the current rate of increase of global temperature due to carbon emissions is the equivalent of exploding four atomic bombs every second? John Tyndall, an Irish ...

There is no such thing as a baby pacemaker. For children with an irregular heartbeat, the only option is an adult device. That’s why when baby Sarah was born with a heart defect; she had an adult pacemaker wedged into her stomach because there wasn’t enough room in her chest. As her body grows, she ...

The phrase “Fake News” has become very popular recently thanks to its involvement in certain political campaigns. But it is a real issue for companies whose industry is being hurt by the false rumours being spread about it. This is especially an issue when it comes to renewable electricity ...

These days, tech giants are spending enough money on research and development each year to solve the world’s problems ten times over. Amazon spend $23 billion on R&D in 2017 alone. Alphabet and Intel spent $16.6 billion and $13.1 billion respectively. These figures are eye-watering. Flashing ...