Design a climate transition that benefits people and business
Support your business in navigating the social risks and opportunities of climate and nature transitions – through sector-specific guidance, peer learning and access to finance.
Sector-Specific Implementation
Apply just transition principles in food & agriculture and built environment through action-based learning and tailored guidance.
Business Benefits:
- Strengthen climate plans by addressing social risks in key sectors.
- Accelerate de carbonization with equity-integrated pilots.
- Tailor strategies to sector realities via dedicated working groups.
Business & Community Resilience
Explore and co-develop practical approaches to resilience that protect operations and support the communities your business relies on.
Business Benefits:
- Safeguard operations from climate-related disruptions to people and operations.
- Build trust and a license to operate by investing in community resilience.
- Enhance ESG ratings through structured resilience planning.
Financing the Just Transition
Join structured dialogues with financial institutions to signal needs and co-create blended finance solutions for socially inclusive climate action.
Business Benefits:
- Mobilize funding via co-created finance mechanisms.
- Boost investor confidence through alignment with existing and upcoming global standards (e.g., TISFD).
- Align finance and sustainability teams on inclusive investment cases.
Peer Learning & Practical Tools
Access masterclasses, working groups and executive guidance materials and tools to embed Just Transition into strategy and operations.
Business Benefits:
- Gain insights to best practices from leading organizations, business networks and standard setters.
- Drive adoption of just transition principles across the organization through narrative and capability building.
- Foster collaboration across business functions.
Key Report
Business Leaders Guide to a Just Climate Transition
WBCSD and ERM launched the Business Leaders Guide to a Just Climate Transition. This practical guide supports senior leaders embed people considerations into climate strategies and lead the transition with integrity, build trust and future-proof operations.
Other People Action Agendas
- Focus: Closing wage gaps through supplier engagement, policy advocacy and business case development
- Key Topics: Living Wage Measurement, Supplier Tools, Jurisdictional Partnerships, ROI Evidence, Policy Alignment
- Focus: Building business-wide capabilities to embed human rights into governance, operations and supply chains
- Key Topics: Due Diligence, Fair Recruitment, Board Engagement, Supplier Training, Rights-Based Risk Management
- Focus: Advancing DE&I across functions and geographies through capability building and data-backed strategies
- Key Topics: Inclusive Procurement, Multi-generational Workforce, Neurodiversity, Cross-Functional Learning, Equity Metrics
- Focus: Strengthening decision-making and disclosure through integrated metrics and cross-framework alignment
- Key Topics: TISFD, CPAS Integration, Double Materiality, Social KPIs, Reporting Standards
