O pozici
ABOUT IHRB’S WORK ON CLIMATE
IHRB’s Just Transitions Programme focuses on a central challenge: current climate action models are structurally misaligned – and this is undermining delivery. Decision-making remains top-down across sectors, financial systems misprice social risk, and practitioners lack awareness of usable, investable models. The result is an implementation gap, where ambition is rising but delivery is contested, delayed, or fragile – raising material risks for workers and communities, company operations, and the transition itself.
Our core contention is that climate action succeeds when governed as a social process, not just a technical or financial one. Embedding the rights and agency of workers, communities, and affected stakeholders into how decisions are designed, sequenced, and financed is not a moral add-on – it is a precondition for effective, investable climate action. This approach is grounded in international standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which establish participation, accountability, and due diligence as baseline conditions.
IHRB works to shift practice through three interconnected approaches:
making risk visible – by demonstrating how social exclusion translates into financial and operational costs
making the possible tangible – by identifying real-world models and mechanisms, and translating them into operational insights for diverse practitioners
making change actionable – by convening and engaging business, finance, policy, and civil society in dialogue on shared challenges and emerging issues
ABOUT JUST STORIES
The case for people-centred decarbonisation is no longer theoretical. Across sectors – from coal and steel to agriculture, construction, and energy – transitions that exclude workers and communities from meaningful decision-making face mounting resistance, reputational damage, and outright failure. Transitions designed with them are demonstrating greater durability, investability, an
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- For each story, the Decarbonisation Lead & Writer will produce a structured distillation of the business-relevant lessons - identifying the decision moments, governance adaptations, commercial trade-offs, and enabling conditions that shaped outcomes.
- Provide this distillation as a substantive input to the Business Engagement Lead for development into the practitioner brief and sector-specific materials
- Participate in mid-development reviews with the Business Engagement Lead to ensure the right questions are being surfaced in the field before fieldwork concludes
- Contribute story insights and lesson material to inform the design and content of the annual practitioner dilemma forum, led by the Business Engagement Lead.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with potential masterclass contributors during the research and fieldwork process
- Closely liaise with the Business Engagement Lead on contributor profiles, story insights, and the key lessons each contributor
