Our Sustainability Work

Environmental and social sustainability are key priorities of Scale Ireland both in terms of the Irish tech sector and our organisation. Scale Ireland has identified key goals in relation to sustainability through our Sustainability Working Group.

It comprises passionate and committed founders and experts to discuss the adoption and promotion of best practice in the sector, and also in our organisation in relation to carbon neutrality and environmentally sustainable practices. We want to become a leading organisation in terms of our sustainable objectives, values, practices and and also be a strong leadership in the sector on the issue.
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By bringing together passionate and committed individuals, Scale Ireland has identified its goals in relation to sustainability which includes adopting best practice in relation to carbon neutrality and environmentally sustainable practices, as well as promoting these best practices to members, stakeholders and sectoral players.

What Scale Ireland is doing?

As an organisation, Scale Ireland is undertaking work on our carbon outputs to ensure best practices.
As a representative body, Scale Ireland is promoting best practice within the sector through its Sustainability Working Group and highlighting start-ups ans scaling companies with innovative sustainable solutions.
Scale Ireland is also meeting key partners in the sector to ensure we are working together on promote sustainability.
Scale Ireland is also a member and strong supporter of ENSO initiatives, an online platform to help businesses take accountability for the environmental and social sustainability impact.
At our Annual Regional Summit and other events, we promote sustainabile and impactful start-up and scaling companies as well as provide key advice from experts on our Slack Channel.

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Our Sustainability Budget 2024 Proposals

The introduction of a €5,000 tax credit type scheme geared towards micro and SMEs to have a sustainability plan with KPIs. This must be achieved within 3 years of the company being set up. However, companies already established beyond that time period will be eligible to apply for the credit within a 2 year period of its introduction;
Enterprise Ireland should ringfence dedicated funding under its HPSU scheme for companies with sustainable solutions;
Funding should be introduced for a campaign to highlight how Irish start-ups and scaling companies can access EU Green Bond funding.

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