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Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is delighted to publish an external evaluation of its Time to Count programme, kindly funded by the ESB Energy for Generations Fund. The Time to Count programme, which began in 2013, aims is to build children’s confidence around numbers, reinforce their conceptual understanding around numbers and support them in […]

Climate change and nature breakdown pose profound risks to Ireland’s economy and society. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, a global accord to combat climate change by limiting global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to cap it at 1.5°C.  However, […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. A great way to help us celebrate is if your company joins our movement for change. As leaders in sustainability and social inclusion, BITCI has supported our members to embed all aspects of sustainability, namely Economic, Environmental, Social and Governance (EESG), into […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) has today unveiled the first cohort of signatories to its recently launched collective campaign, Accelerate: The Business Pact for Climate and Nature. The initiative urges prompt business action to address the interconnected climate and nature crises by calling on members of the BITCI network to set a Science Based […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is celebrating the graduation of its EPIC programme participants for 2024. The EPIC programme empowers unemployed refugees and asylum seekers in their job search providing training on CV preparation, mock interviews, advice on navigating the Irish job market and one-to-one career counselling support.   The EPIC programme is predominantly […]

“Every time you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want”.     Corporate gifting is a great opportunity for a company to put its sustainability values into practice. By choosing sustainable gifts, businesses can inspire their employees, build a positive brand image, and contribute to a better world. Ireland has […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is delighted to share the outcomes of its All-Ireland Climate Action Pilot Programme, a collaborative effort aimed at supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in reducing carbon emissions. This programme highlighted the crucial role of supply chain decarbonisation through uniting, upskilling and empowering some BITCI member companies and a […]

COP 16 is now into its second week. Talks and negotiations have focused on resource mobilisation and a proposal for a new global instrument for biodiversity finance. Also being addressed are the scientific and technical needs to support GBF implementation. Reflecting the scale of the challenge to halt and reverse nature loss, it’s disappointing to […]

A study, published in April this year, by the journal Science entitled The positive impact of conservation action found that ‘in two-thirds of cases, conservation either improved the state of biodiversity or at least slowed the decline’. Furthermore, efforts targeted at habitat loss reduction and restoration and sustainable management among others are highly effective but […]