Green for Business: What It Means for Your Business

Green for Business is a free consultancy support from your Local Enterprise Office, giving businesses access to up to two days of expert guidance from a specialist Green Consultant. The Consultant works with you to identify practical, tailored changes — from energy, water, and materials use to waste and operational efficiency — and produces a detailed Green for Business Report setting out recommendations specific to your business.

Course Content:

• What the Green for Business support involves and how the process works
• The advantages of becoming a more sustainable business — cost, reputation, and competitiveness
• Building a sustainable business strategy that fits your operations
• How sustainability increases competitiveness and reduces business risk
• Eligibility and focus areas for the Green for Business support
• Other supports available to continue your sustainability journey, including the Energy Efficiency Grant.

What's in it for your business?

• Lower operating costs
• Better use of energy, water, and materials
• Reduced carbon footprint
• Enhanced brand image and customer appeal
• Greater resilience to climate change

This workshop will be delivered online via Zoom.

Irmgard Considine.

With over a decade of experience in corporate sustainability, Irmgard Considine has spent the last two years focused on something she's genuinely passionate about: helping SMEs build sustainable, resilient businesses. She works closely with owners and management teams to turn sustainability from a compliance exercise into a real driver of competitiveness — reducing operating costs, increasing profit margins, and strengthening these essential businesses for the long term.

Irmgard is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional and holds a postgraduate certificate in Creating Value with ESG from Trinity College Dublin.