Green Economic Zone
An tSlí Ghlas – The Green Way
With its worldwide reputation as a successful
location for foreign direct investment, Ireland is
now also emerging as a significant location for
investors in the cleantech industry, largely due to
natural resource advantages backed by a talented
and skilled workforce, a thriving research and
development environment, and pro-cleantech
government policies.
The Green Way (An tSlí Ghlas) was conceived in
response to the 2009 Report of the Government’s
High-Level Action Group on Green Enterprise
which stated that “Ireland needs to develop one or
more green zones in order to create an environment
that can support the development of green
enterprise and be used to market Ireland overseas”.
The Green Way is being proposed by a powerful
alliance of key organisations in the North Dublin
City Region including Fingal County Council,
Dublin City Council, Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.,
Dublin City University, Dublin Airport Authority,
Dublin Institute of Technology and North Dublin
Chamber of Commerce.
The vision of the founding partners is:
“To develop an internationally-recognised
Green Economic Zone complementing planned
and existing infrastructural investment, where
all participants- public and private, Irish and
international - are working in unison, to deliver
vibrant and highly adaptable job-creating
enterprises, building on proven capabilities to
innovate, regenerate and transform.”
The Green Way founding partners are in a
position of major influence in terms of driving the