Ireland’s National Initiative for Green Skills and Climate Resilience.

Understand Climate Risk. Build Resilience.
Unlock Competitive Advantage.

Climate change is reshaping business risk and opportunity.

Organisations need to develop internal capability to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.

Climate-impacts have critical implications for every business in Ireland who are already experiencing:

  • Supply chain disruption.
  • Rising energy and resource costs.
  • Regulatory change and reporting requirements.
  • Increased climate-related risk exposure.
  • Shifting investor, customer and market expectations.

At the same time, the transition to a low-carbon and digitally enabled economy is creating new opportunities for innovation, efficiency and growth. Transformation is critical to future competitiveness and resilience.

Empowering Climate Resilience for Irish Enterprise.

Our training programmes focus on mitigation and resource efficiency as well as climate adaptation and resilience. 

Mitigation: Reduce your impact. Lead the transition.

Mitigation:

Reduce your impact. Lead the transition.

Through our Sustainable Resource Management Level 7 Certificate programmes, we support enterprises to:

  • Improve energy and resource efficiency.
  • Reduce emissions and environmental impact.
  • Align operations with national and EU climate targets.
  • Deliver measurable sustainability outcomes.

These programmes help organisations move beyond compliance and embed sustainability into core business strategy — strengthening both environmental performance and commercial resilience.

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Adaptation: Prepare for disruption. Build resilience.

Adaptation:

Prepare for disruption. Build resilience.

Climate risk is increasingly recognised as a strategic business issue.
Our Business Risk and Resilience programmes support enterprises to:

  • Identify and assess climate-related risks.
  • Integrate climate risk into governance and decision-making.
  • Strengthen organisational agility and resilience.

By building internal capability, organisations can better anticipate disruption, manage uncertainty and respond proactively to change.

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Our Impact.

5500+
Individuals Trained.
1800+
Enterprises Upskilled.
6000+
Transformative Actions.

What our Learners are saying.

  • Darran Lovely
    Darran Lovely,
    The Teeling Whiskey Company.
    The Programme offered excellent practical, frameworks, as well as peer-to-peer learning. The Teeling Whiskey Company benefited with a Sustainability Action Plan that stimulated critical thinking and provided the platform to rank priorities and put shape and structure on future projects.
  • Kelly O’Reilly
    Kelly O’Reilly,
    Iarnród Éireann.
    The Programme gave me practical tools especially in planning and evaluating tenders with long-term impact. I feel I am now better equipped to align sourcing strategies with our environmental goals and public value commitments.
  • Akshay Sawant
    Akshay Sawant,
    KORE Insulation.
    The Programme allowed me to apply what I was learning directly to my work, improving my ability to contribute to ongoing projects more effectively. The opportunity to engage with fellow participants from senior roles across various sectors was valuable, and I also learned directly from industry experts who brought real-world insights into the classroom.
  • Elizabeth McCooey
    Elizabeth McCooey,
    AquaTerra Boat Tours.
    The Programme offered practical accessible support that was genuinely relevant to a small family-run business like ours. Aquaterra now has a defined Biodiversity Action Plan that aligns with the scale of our business while still delivering meaningful impact.
  • Arek Gdulinski
    Arek Gdulinski,
    Shannon Airport.
    The Programme was a transformative experience that built my confidence and inspired me to drive meaningful change within our organisation. It equipped me with practical skills and insights that I could immediately apply and helped me set a clear direction for our sustainability efforts, ensuring that our initiatives are impactful.
  • Wojtek Widuch
    Wojtek Widuch,
    The Address Collective.
    The Programme offered a structured opportunity to identify ways to strengthen and future proof our ESG initiatives and create a well-rounded action plan. Peer-to-peer learning was key, exposing me to new approaches and ideas from various sectors that strengthened my own knowledge and understanding.
  • Andrea Wenner
    Andrea Wenner,
    Mount Brandon Cottages.
    The programme provided an opportunity to broaden our knowledge on both sustainability and biodiversity. The programme helped us to see our business with fresh eyes, focus on the next stage of our development, and give a much clearer vision of how to proceed into the future.

Our Clients.

We work with clients across a wide range of industries throughout Ireland. Below is a selection of the organisations that we support.

Designed and delivered in partnership with enterprise.

Skillnet Climate Ready Academy was designed following extensive consultation with businesses operating in a range of sectors. Skillnet Ireland are an enterprise agency whose role is to ensure their programmes are aligned to national policy and evolving commercial needs. 20FIFTY Partners are the delivery partner for the Skillnet Climate Ready Academy, they collaborate closely with industry to design world class, innovative training programmes that are delivered by experts and apply best practice methodologies centred on sustainability and the green economy. Skillnet Climate Ready Academy also work in partnership with government and enterprise agencies including IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.

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