Richard Willis
- European Investment Bank
- Communication Department
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The European Investment Bank Group provided an unprecedented €1.6 billion backing for transformational investment across Ireland last year. The 2023 investments are helping companies to expand and create skilled jobs, homeowners to cut energy bills, increasing renewable energy generation and supporting the development of the new Cork University Business School (CUBS). This represents the largest backing for new investment in Ireland by the European Investment Bank Group since the first operation in 1973.
The EIB Climate Survey, running since 2018, offers insights into climate change related views of people in major economies around the world, with more than 30 000 respondents in the European Union, the United States, China, India, Japan, the UK, UAE, Canada, and South Korea. The EIB is the lending arm of the European Union and the world’s largest multilateral lender for climate action projects.
Ireland and the European Investment Bank (EIB) today reached an agreement that paves the way for government-backed, low-interest home energy upgrade loans. The agreement, signed by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD; the Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD; and Dr. Werner Hoyer, President of the EIB, marks a major milestone in the development of the loan scheme which will be underpinned by resources from the EIB Group.