By Business & Finance 
Finalists for the second Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Awards, in association with Business & Finance, have been announced. The ESG Awards will take place at a Gala Luncheon at The Round Room in the Mansion House, Dublin on April 20th, 2023. See here for full list of finalists.
Sustainability is possibly the most important and urgent issue of our time and ESG provides criteria that companies can measure, benchmark, and report against. The growing impetus to ensure ESG standards are met by companies has introduced a whole new range of ideas, solutions and products that are changing the way we do business. The ESG Awards celebrates those whose internal practices and policies are driving effective decision-making, sustainable growth and actively striving to address and progress ESG issues in their organisation.
The Awards will showcase the successes of ESG initiatives, examples of best practice and highlight the importance of transparency in this area across 14 categories which include three new awards. The new categories are the ESG Team Award, the Future ESG Leader Award and the ESG Innovation Award. The ESG Awards’ esteemed judging panel will adjudicate on all entries across a range of criteria and recognise those setting the standards for ESG Excellence.
The second Business & Finance ESG Awards will take place on April 20th in the Round Room at The Mansion House. Event partners include UrbanVolt, SSE Airtricity, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ibec, Enterprise Ireland, Unicef Ireland, Onclusive, Clearstory, Flogas Enterprise, Aviva and Gas Networks Ireland.
There are a number of categories and businesses nominated for each award. They are as follows:
Categories and finalists
ESG Company Award (Enterprise), sponsored by Flogas Enterprise
An Post
Aviva
Diageo Ireland
EY Ireland
Fyffes
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
KPMG
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP
ESG Company Award (SMEs), sponsored by Aviva
Cognition World
FOXFORD
Portwest
Repak
Tao Climate
UrbanVolt
Walkers (Ireland) LLP
Xerotech
Biodiversity Initiative Award
Dublin Bus
Eversheds Sutherland
Gas Networks Ireland
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
Veri Connect
Aviva
Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Initiative, sponsored by UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
An Post
Eversheds Sutherland
Finastra
I-RES
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ISS UK & Ireland
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Social Responsibility Project Award, sponsored by Unicef Ireland
Ergon Capital
Gas Networks Ireland
Permanent TSB
SSE Airtricity
William Fry LLP
Wolfpack Digital
Employee Experience Award
Codema – Dublin’s Energy Agency
NFP Ireland
Downing LLP
Citi
Mintago
Net Zero Carbon Award, sponsored by UrbanVolt
CoreZero
EY Ireland
Finastra
Fuels for Ireland
Matheson LLP
The Naked Collective
Energy Efficiency Initiative Award, sponsored by SSE Airtricity
An Post
Dairygold
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
Tata Consultancy Services Ireland Ltd
ESG Finance Award
Bank of Ireland
CleverCards
Morningstar Sustainalytics
ESG Investment Award
Amundi
Aviva
Foresight Group
Good Governance Award, sponsored by I-RES
Barretstown
Marie Keating Foundation
Oxfam
New Categories
NEW ESG Team Award
An Post
Antaris Consulting
Fyffes
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
NCBI Labs
Version 1
NEW Future ESG Leader Award
Karol Landziak – Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
Luke Deasy – Copper Coast Renewables
Patrick Gavoty – Ergon Capital
NEW ESG Innovation Award, sponsored by Gas Networks Ireland
Astatine
Cognition World
DPD Ireland
I-RES
NCBI – Working for People with Sight Loss
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For more information on the ESG Awards, please contact chiara.lombardo@businessandfinance.com
