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Climate Justice
How can business put people at the heart of their climate action?
How can we support the most vulnerable people and communities who are most impacted by climate change?
What does a just transition look like? How can businesses address existing inequities, such as by gender, race, income and geography, which shape the risks and opportunities that people face? And how can businesses deliver climate justice?
Find out the answers to your business and climate justice related questions here.
Resource Kits
Explore our issue-based resource kits with downloadable, co-created learning resources. Everything you need to inform your organisation’s social impact strategy and stay ahead of emerging social impact trends.
How can businesses put people at the heart of climate action?
This Resource Kit, supported by Pearson and developed with Change by Degrees, includes practical tools for putting people at the heart of climate action. It applies principles of climate justice to actions companies can take across their core business, philanthropy and policy advocacy.
Business case studies and leading edge thinking. An explanation in greater depth as to why putting people at the heart of climate action should now be a business priority: Business Fights Poverty Magazine
Learn from a panel of experts in this live webinar: How do we apply a climate justice lens to build business and community resilience?
Business practitioner answers to human centred climate action on people’s rights (see p.3-4) and vulnerabilities (see p.8-10): Climate Justice Online Forum Discussions
More Climate Resources
The transition to a green economy offers the prospect of an improved environment and better livelihoods. But unlocking that opportunity requires understanding local markets and economic incentives.
- May 3, 2023
As the impacts of climate change bite, business efforts to reduce emissions must now be matched by action to strengthen climate resilience. Here Dr. Tom Mitchell, Executive Director, International Institute for Environment of Development (IIED), sets out four action areas where companies can better protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products.
- May 3, 2023
Are you ready to learn from a young female entrepreneur from Ghana and an Africa and Middle East female finance leader from Pakistan who are passionate about the way we approach green tech solutions and improve incomes for smallholder farmers? Then buckle up and tune into this podcast featuring Social Impact Pioneers Audrey S-Darko and Khadija Hashimi
- April 24, 2023
Commercialising high yielding mung bean seeds in Indonesia required a collaboration between government and the private sector. PRISMA CEO, Nina FitzSimons, explains how it happened and the role of the market systems development program in facilitating the collaboration.
- April 18, 2023
With climate change having an outsize impact on women and girls, particularly those in developing countries, there must be a focus on the link between gender equity and climate as we consider climate solutions. This article highlights the role of carbon finance in channelling investment to projects impacting both, and the need to raise organisations’ climate ambitions.
- April 3, 2023
Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore the connections between health equity and climate change, and how can businesses play a role. The live panel takes places onThursday 16 March 2023, 11 to 12pm EST / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
- February 23, 2023
Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore what role businesses can play in addressing the social and equity dimensions of climate change. Thursday 19th October, 10am to 11am EST / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
- February 23, 2023
Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore what role businesses can play in addressing the social and equity dimensions of climate change. The live panel is taking places on Thursday 19th October 2023, 10am to 11am EST / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
- February 23, 2023
Regenerative agriculture improves the soil, traps carbon emissions and lifts farmers out of poverty. 80% of Kenya’s smallholder farmers are women, which is why Hand in Hand’s regenerative agriculture curriculum places women at its core. The organisation aims to reach one in 20 Kenyan farmers in the next five years.
- February 22, 2023
