| ACA | Accelerated Capital Allowance |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| B2C | Business-to-Consumer |
| BIA | Ireland’s Bord Bia |
| CBAM | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism |
| CCPC | Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission |
| CSDDD | Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive |
| CSRD | Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive |
| DAFM | Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine |
| DAX | Data Analysis eXpressions |
| DCEE | Ireland’s Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment |
| DETE | Ireland’s Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment |
| DPP | Digital Product Passport |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECGT | EU Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive |
| EFRAG | The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group |
| EPA | Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency |
| ESAP | European Single Access Point |
| ESG | Environmental, Social and Governance performance |
| ESPR | EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation |
| ESRS | European Sustainability Reporting Standards |
| ETS | Emissions Trading System |
| EU | European Union |
| EUBR | EU Batteries Regulation |
| EUDR | EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products |
| EUR | Euro |
| EV | Electric Vehicle |
| FATS | Foreign Affiliates Statistics |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FLR | EU Regulation to prohibit products made with forced labour |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas emissions |
| GPT | Generative Pre-trained Transformer |
| GVC | Global Value Chain |
| IDA | IDA Ireland |
| ILO | International Labour Organisation |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
| INTER | InterTradeIreland |
| LEO | Local Enterprise Office |
| LSME | Listed SMEs, small banks and captive insurers |
| LULUCF | Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry |
| MNE | Multinational enterprises |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| NSAI | National Standards Authority of Ireland |
| PBI | Microsoft’s Power Business Intelligence |
| REP | Regional Enterprise Plan |
| R2R | EU Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods |
| RBC | Responsible Business Conduct |
| RBF | Responsible Business Forum |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| SDBS | OECD Structural and Demographic Business Statistics |
| SEAI | Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland |
| SEAI | Support Scheme for Energy Audits |
| SME&E | Small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship |
| SMEs | Small and medium-sized enterprises |
| SqL | Structured Query Language |
| TSI | Technical Support Instrument |
| TVs | Televisions |
| UDA | Údarás na Gaeltachta |
| UN | United Nations |
Developing a Responsible Business Compass for Ireland
