About AIB Green Living

The energy we consume in our homes, how we live and how we do business all leave a footprint.
 
Find out how we can work to minimise the impact on our planet.
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Your Home

If you plan to DO MORE by upgrading, you’ll find plenty about warmer, more cost effective and environmentally friendly homes here.
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Your Lifestyle

Whether you’re looking to make big changes or small, it’s not as hard as you might think - let us show you how we can all DO MORE here.
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Your Business

If your business can DO MORE by making green changes or you’re a start-up business looking to inspire green thinking - help is available here.

 

 

Benefits of living greener

Here’s why we all need to adapt greener ways of living.

Two young children in vegetable garden holding up little houses.
 Protect our planet’s finite resources of energy, water and food.
 
 Support the many species and wildlife that we share our planet with by preserving their environment and ecosystems.
 
 Create more positive effects on public health such as cleaner air with less pollutants.
 
 Sustain the gains that we have made for better lives, healthcare, work and education.
 
 Shape our communities by sharing, giving and supporting one another to achieve a greater level of wellbeing.

 

 

Some highlights from Sustainability so far

We started our Sustainability journey in 2014, here are some initiatives from the last few years.

2017:  Following the 2014 AIB Apiary collaboration with Boyne Valley Honey, AIB supported Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on a biodiversity research project to help conserve pollinators, encourage urban planning and beekeeping. 
The collaboration with TCD continues, learn more about it here.
 
We are continuing to work to make AIB buildings more energy efficient – upgrading boilers, heating systems, air conditioning and LED lighting, to meet our Net Zero 2030 operations target.

2018: We signed the 1st Low Carbon Pledge to reduce emissions by 50% before 2030 and achieved Climate “A” Leadership Rating. We began the removal of disposable coffee cups across AIB and began educating ourselves with the rollout of Recycling and Reuse Workshops for our staff.

2019: We told you about our €5bn Climate Fund to support Ireland’s transition to a low carbon economy. We launched our pledge to DO MORE and our Green Bond Framework. We saw a 33% reduction in waste per employee this year, eliminating 11.5M plastic containers from our waste streams, preventing the generation of 283 tonnes of waste from 2017 - 2019. We introduced systems to reuse water for landscaping and outdoor cleaning.
 
Click here for more information on how we did this.

2020: We have committed to our own operations being Net Zero by 2030, signed the new Low Carbon Pledge and committed to setting Science Based Targets by 2024. This year we achieved our 33% energy reduction targets and continued with our initiatives to support our commitments to Net Zero.

2021: As leader of the sustainability agenda in Irish financial services we are continuing to make progress in supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. In the first 6 months of 2021 over 20% of our new lending was green/transitional, we’ve introduced additional customer supports including a Sustainable Lending Framework and enhanced a number of our partnerships – including FoodCloud, University College Cork and Coillte. We’re also proud to be the first Irish company to commit to using World Economic Forum, Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics in our reporting.
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Meet some of our green partners

We're backing sustainable communities and making a positive contribution to society.
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GIY Ireland

Our friends at Grow it Yourself tell us how they are helping people around the world to live happier, healthier and more sustainable lives by growing their own food.
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FoodCloud

Food waste is detrimental to our planet, but FoodCloud Ireland have the solution if we're all willing to play our part.
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Coillte

As the proud custodian of over 7% of Ireland’s land, Coillte tells us of the journey they’ve been on to create a sustainable future for our forests and lands.
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Bee keeping at AIB

Hear from our resident BEE keeper, Kevin, on the importance of the AIB Apiary and others for our ecosystems.

 

 

Our commitments and progress

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Message from Colin Hunt, CEO
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Sustainability Reports
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Awards
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Accreditations

 

 

We Pledge To DO MORE

We have been working to build a more sustainable business. We’ve invested in wind energy projects, launched a €5 billion climate action fund and created a Green Mortgage and a Green 5 year fixed rate loan.
 
And yet, it’s still not enough. And we will keep telling ourselves that every day. We alone are not the solution to climate change, but we are doing everything we can to be a part of it.
 

 

 

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