Enda Keane: 'We're tiptoeing in the direction of environmental catastrophe'

Climate change has put focus on forestry. Cáit Caden speaks to Enda Keane of Treemetrics

Enda Keane, Chief Executive Officer Treemetrics.

Former Teagasc worker Enda Keane had ambitious plans for his forestry software company Treemetrics, which facilitates the auction and measurement of forests.

He wanted to more than double his workforce and boost revenues from €1m to €40m by the end of 2022. Then a pandemic, a war, and soaring inflation scuppered these goals. “The Covid
pandemic had a huge impact globally on forestry. The forest industry just stopped. And now there’s this huge issue of lack of supply. So now you’ve got this situation in forestry where lumber has become crazy
expensive,” said Mr Keane.