The Ireland Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced a new partnership with Techies Go Green, a non-profit organisation focused on helping businesses become verifiably sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint. The partnership was formally announced on Earth Day, 22 April, during the Urban Sustainability Forum at the GEC in Dublin.

If your sustainability training is something employees endure rather than something they really get stuck into, you aren’t just wasting their time, you’re missing a huge chance to future-proof your business. We can no longer afford to treat sustainability as an optional extra. The most radical thing you can do right now is move beyond tickbox culture and give your people the agency to play, build, and lead.

The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a fresh surge in global energy prices. Businesses and households grapple with rising costs and supply uncertainty. This latest crisis is doing more than squeezing margins, it is highlighting a deeper structural problem. The global fossil fuel based energy model that has underpinned economic growth for decades is increasingly unfit for purpose. With each cycle of energy supply shock and recovery, the urgency grows for nations to transition from passive petrostate customers to proactive, self sufficient, and climate friendly electrostates.

In 2025, the sustainability bubble burst, or was at least significantly deflated. Regulatory and political shifts in Brussels and Washington slowed momentum: the EU’s CSRD accelerant was heavily diluted and the froth of the sustainability market was blown away by pushback from vested interests and a political swing to the right.

Sustainability is undergoing a reset. After years of momentum driven by regulation, reporting frameworks, and net-zero commitments, many businesses are reassessing how and why they invest in sustainability.

We’re in the midst of a climate crisis – a major challenge, with only a limited timeframe in which to act. Incrementalism isn’t working; radical solutions are needed to deliver transformative impacts, if we are to maintain a liveable planet and shared prosperity. Yet, culture wars represent a clear and present danger, undermining an effective transition towards a low-carbon economy, while also exacerbating a deteriorating climate.