Future Planet and Institute of Sustainability Studies Unite to Create the Operating System for Sustainable Performance

Pictured from left to right: Colum Kenny, Chief Operating Officer; Donal Daly, Chairman; Ingrid De Docker, Chief Innovation and Research Officer; Niall Collins, CEO

The combined business will operate as Future Planet, bringing sustainable business strategy, knowledge, and execution into one platform.

The sustainability market has outgrown the old model of disconnected advice, fragmented reporting, and manual effort spread across teams and tools. Organisations need a new operating model that combines intelligence, execution, and scale. Future Planet and the Institute of Sustainability Studies are merging to deliver exactly that.

Future Planet has built its reputation as a platform that connects sustainable business strategy with action: data collection, emissions calculations, maturity modelling, transition planning, and reporting.

Future Planet platform makes it simple for businesses to embed their sustainable practices, track and exceed their ESG targets, while delivering against their commercial goals.

Daniel Blanchfield, Head of Sustainability, FLI Group

The Institute of Sustainability Studies deepens the proposition with targeted, university-accredited eLearning and training programmes that equip employees with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to address the impacts, risks, and opportunities that drive sustainable business success.

At Encirc, sustainability isn't a reporting exercise; it's central to how we operate and how we're transforming our business. Working with ISS has helped us build the knowledge and language across our people to make that real at every level of the organisation. We're delighted to be deepening that partnership as we move into the next phase of our programme.

Fiacre O'Donnell, Sustainability Director, Vidrala

Together, the combined company, operating as Future Planet, becomes a category-defining platform for sustainable performance, pairing software, deep sustainability expertise, and practical delivery capability to help organisations move from complexity to clarity, and from ambition to measurable action.

Niall Collins, CEO of the Institute of Sustainability Studies, becomes CEO of the new business. Donal Daly, co-founder and former CEO of Future Planet, becomes Executive Chairman, bringing 40 years of entrepreneurial and AI experience. Ingrid De Doncker, co-founder of Future Planet and formerly Head of Research & Innovation, becomes Chief Innovation and Research Officer, continuing her work in supply chain sustainability and risk and resilience strategies. Institute of Sustainability founder & Chair Justin Cullen remains on the board of the enlarged business.

We are building the category for sustainable business performance. Future Planet will be where sustainable business strategy becomes operational reality. With this merger, we're bringing together the capability, credibility, and ambition to drive this market to maturity, not just participate in it.

Niall Collins, CEO of the new business

The combined business is positioned to meet growing demand for better-informed transition plans, greater flexibility, faster execution, and quantifiable impact, creating the platform organisations turn to when sustainability moves from a side activity to a core business capability and part of how the business operates.

Enterprise Ireland has supported both Future Planet and the Institute of Sustainability Studies as they've grown into leaders in Ireland's sustainability sector. This merger reflects the strength of Irish innovation in an area of growing global importance, and we're proud to see two client companies come together to build a platform that will help businesses meet their sustainability and export ambitions. We look forward to supporting the combined company as it scales internationally.

Mark Christal, Executive Director, Enterprise Ireland

Customers need solutions that are practical, credible, and built to scale. By bringing these capabilities together, we can help them move faster. We also invite other companies across the sustainability ecosystem to join us in building this category, for the benefit of the industry as a whole.

Ingrid De Doncker, Chief Innovation and Research Officer

The business will continue to serve customers under the Future Planet brand, with the same focus on practical impact and trusted delivery.

To learn more please click on www.futureplanet.com/merger

About Future Planet

Future Planet helps organisations convert sustainability challenges into economic value and positive impact. Combining operational software, expert-led learning, and implementation support in one connected platform, Future Planet enables organisations to build internal capability, improve performance, and strengthen long-term business resilience.

Future Planet's integrated offering combines:

• Strategy for sustainable business
• Guided data management across E, S & G
• CO₂ Emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3)
• Target setting and management
• Informed transition plans
• Certified learning
• ESG reports

More info: eva@futureplanet.com