ESG

Finalists Announced for Business & Finance ESG Awards 2023

By Business & Finance
28 March 2023

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

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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

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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