Just Transition

Helping organisations integrate a just transition by prioritising affected stakeholders, creating decent work, and fostering collaboration.

The world is in the process of transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The rising importance of climate has necessitated action and, with it, rapid transitions to a green, decarbonised future. Countries and companies alike are making efforts to decarbonise, green their economies, and build resilience against climate change.

The transition to a greener future has highlighted the undeniable ties between people and place: when place is harmed or impacted by climate change, the people are too. The actions to achieve a low carbon future are trying to address the place part of the equation, but social action is the non-negotiable second piece. The principles of Just Transition, Climate Justice, and Environmental Justice help complete the equation to ensure that the world’s greener future also uplifts impacted workers and communities to ensure the climate-positive future is equitable and sustainable.

We support organisations to integrate a just transition in their decarbonisation journey. We do this by helping to prioritise stakeholders that are most affected by the transition to a low-carbon economy, create decent work opportunities, identify opportunities for public-private collaboration and leave no one behind.

Anthesis’ climate, supply chain, and social impact expertise enables us to empower organisations to participate in an inclusive green future that maximizes economic and social opportunities for workers and communities, while also helping build resilient value chains. Our approach helps organisations secure an equitable future that embodies just transition and climate justice principles while always keeping the organisation’s performance in mind.

Case Studies

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Just Transition Action in the Technology Sector

Situation Anthesis conducted research for a leading multinational technology company on Just Transition action in Europe. Impact Solutions Situation Anthesis conducted research for a leading multinational technology company on just transition action in Europe, analysing the ecological and social dimensions aligned with a Just Transition that the company could pursue to support its climate and…

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Designing a Community Investment Strategy for Electric Vehicles

Situation Developing a community investment strategy to increase access to STEM jobs in partnership with an electric vehicle manufacturer. Impact Solutions Situation Anthesis partnered with an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer to develop a community investment strategy as part of our Just Transition service. Solution Through careful analysis and evaluation, our experts worked closely with the…

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Creating Frameworks for the Manchester Climate Change Partnership

Situation Anthesis supports the Manchester Climate Change Partnership in developing Climate change Frameworks. Impact Solutions Situation Anthesis has supported and engaged with the Manchester Climate Change Partnership since 2017, including publishing their first Climate Change Framework. Solution Anthesis has supported the various city stakeholders including over 20 organisations that form the Manchester Climate Change Partnership,…

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How we help clients

By integrating a just transition into sustainability commitments, policies and practices, organisations can bridge the various agendas that exist at the nexus of environmental sustainability and social justice and impact. This can be achieved by integrating foundational principles that contribute to decarbonising actions and simultaneously reduce existing inequalities. Anthesis can help you identify your organisation’s current state, including boundary of operations and supply chain, regulatory due diligence, and reporting expectations. We can then develop a strategy, time-bound roadmap, and key performance indicators that help you understand how a just transition aligns with your sustainability efforts, how to take swift and measurable action, and how to communicate progress along the way.

Our Just Transition services include:

Developing just transition policies and strategies.
Developing just transition programs, including annual roadmaps, KPIs, and monitoring plans.
Conducting training and engagement with internal stakeholders to raise awareness of just transition action and how to overcome barriers to a just transition.

Leveraging our regional expertise to act as a trusted advisor on diverse just transition, climate justice, environmental justice topics.
Facilitating partnerships between clients, place-based organizations, local government, and civil society engaged in just transition action.

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Contributing Towards a Just Transition

As we witness the global shift towards a low-carbon economy, it’s imperative to ensure this change is not only environmentally sustainable but also socially equitable. Just Transition is a set of principles and practices that enable an organisation to navigate the challenges and opportunities of this change. Our live panel discussion featured Anthesis experts exploring…

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Just Transition Enables a Positive [Value] Chain Reaction

Just Transition is a set of principles and practices that ensure an equitable and just approach to maintaining a liveable planet.

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The SBTi BVCM Guidance Reinforces the Anthesis Approach to Net Zero and Carbon Credit Investment

Beyond Value Chain Mitigation, as outlined in SBTi's report ‘Above and Beyond: An SBTi report on the design and implementation of Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM)’, underscores the critical need to look beyond organisational boundaries when addressing emissions.

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Our Experts

Erin McVeigh

Executive Director

North America

Claire Bosch Zuazo

Global Lead, Social Impact

North America

Simeran Bachra

Associate Director

North America

Ranier Ford

Principal Consultant

Human Rights & Social Impact Services

Our recommendations align with the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, ILO Fundamental Conventions, OECD Due Diligence Guidance and Guidelines, the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Social Transformation Framework, and Just Transition Initiative.

Empower your organisation to realise the business value of social performance by leveraging our Social Impact and Human Rights Services. From human rights due diligence and social impact assessment to ethical trade and just transition, our services empower organisations to thrive while contributing to a world where ethical values and social responsibility take centre stage.

Human Rights & Social Impact Services

Strategy Development & Advisory

Companies and investors face growing expectations to show how they identify and address their human rights impacts. The regulatory landscape and reporting requirements on modern slavery and human rights and environmental due diligence, among others, are continuously evolving. Meanwhile, civil society and consumers increasingly scrutinise companies’ reporting on positive social impacts.

Drawing on our backgrounds in human rights law, advocacy and compliance, we work closely with leading companies and investors to design and implement tailored human rights policies and strategies aligned with leading international frameworks. We work continuously with clients to help them implement their social impact and human rights strategy and stay in front of emerging risks in their operations and value chains.

Strategy Development & Advisory

Human Rights Risk & Impact Assessments

Under the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs), companies are obliged to “know and show” how they address human rights impacts, to ensure transparency and accountability to stakeholders. Many firms are also subject to evolving regulatory requirements for companies to report on how they conduct human rights due diligence.

Our Human Rights practice assembles industry-leading multilingual project teams to conduct on-the-ground field research for investors and companies on their human rights impacts. Stakeholder engagement is at the heart of our approach, combining meaningful consultation with workers, communities and other affected rightsholders with commentary from local and regional experts, and in-depth public domain research.

Human Rights Risk & Impact Assessments

Social Impact Assessment and Measurement

Regulatory compliance, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and corporate responsibility increasingly mandate and expect companies to demonstrate they are meeting certain social standards, anticipating and mitigating negative social consequences and improving their social performance in line with environmental and economic considerations. We help clients establish measurement and monitoring frameworks to measure, manage, and improve social performance of their services, products, policies, and programs.

With expertise in community engagement, resource management, human rights, social compliance, and monitoring and evaluation, our diverse team works closely with clients to tailor social assessment and measurement to their needs, whether it is at a corporate level, for a specific product, service, and/or for all or part of their supply chain. We work in partnership with clients so that social indicators assessed are in line with their corporate strategy and can be monitored and managed during current state and in the future.

Social Impact Assessment & Measurement

Just Transition

We can help integrate a just transition into our clients’ sustainability commitments, policies and practices, bridging the various agendas that exist at the nexus of environmental sustainability and social justice and impact.

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Supply Chain Due Diligence & Responsible Sourcing

Regulations increasingly mandate supply chain due diligence, with increased scrutiny on human rights risks beyond first tier suppliers. We help clients proactively manage potential and actual adverse human rights impacts throughout their supply chain and develop approaches to engage with high-risk suppliers globally.

Our approach ensures that a business has a due diligence policy and practices based on international best practices and guiding principles (OECD, UNGPs) and implements these in their supply chains. We then enable businesses to understand how they will enact and embed the diligence.

Supply Chain Due Diligence & Responsible Sourcing

Responsible Investment

Leading investors are increasingly going beyond analysing financially material risks in their portfolios, to assess their most salient human rights risks – those that present the most severe potential impact to people.

We leverage our experience in assessing human rights risks for corporates and our regional expertise to help investors screen portfolios for their highest risk assets. We also help investors get ahead of human rights issues pre-transaction including in the supply chain, spotlighting high risk sectors and regions and providing tailored analysis on critical issues. We bring a human rights lens to environmental & social due diligence, analysing risks based on gold standard frameworks such as the IFC Performance Standards as well as the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs).

Responsible Investment

We work with ambitious leaders who want to define the future, not hide from it. Together, we achieve extraordinary outcomes.