John Morrison (CEO of Institute for Human Rights and Business)

3. 3
Climate change has many human rights impacts but so too has
climate action.
broken
economic
system
Inequality
There can be no lasting transition
unless it is a Just Transition.
There can be no Just Transition
without the respect for human rights.
The three major systems in emissions
terms are:
Energy, Food/Agriculture and the
Built Environment.

4. Towards a framework for the Just
Transition
The world needs a universal framework on the
Just Transition and accountability mechanisms for
for ‘quality control’.
Premises: all rights, all affected groups, all sectors,
sectors, all localities, transition out and in.
Four pillars:
1. Benefits and beneficiaries.
2. Due diligence: Risk prevention and
mitigation.
3. Accountability through procedural
rights/justice.
4. Systems transformation.

5. e.g. Energy Sector Transitions: little or no existing alignment on
social risk and impact
Supply
Demand
Finance
Traditional energy
Renewable energy
Mining
Cities
Governments
Corporate procurement
Private banks
Private equity
Multilateral banks
Export credit
Impact investment
Social standards-
where they exist -
on Supply side not
replicated on
Demand side
Multilaterals have JT
principles but little
elsewhere eg. no
social risk element to
TCFD. Look to EU?

6. www.ihrb.org
@ihrb
2022
IHRB/Wilton Park report on the beginnings of a
framework - four pillars and the next steps (to be
published at the end of November 2022)
2023-24
Four steps ahead for a framework:
1. Mapping: showing required alignment between
supply, demand and finance drivers in transitions
within the Energy, Agriculture and Built
Environment.
2. Testing framework across a diversity of local
contexts worldwide.
3. Building quality control mechanisms
4. Towards fuller coherence and standardization.