Responsible Investment
Access resources that strengthen responsible investment practices by embedding human rights and just transition principles in climate strategies.
Standard Life: A Human Rights Approach to Net Zero
Learn how Standard Life, an asset owner, is advancing a just transition by taking an integrated climate and human rights approach to their climate transition planning.
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Working Capital Fund: How Venture Capital Can Support a Just Transition
Learn how Working Capital Fund, a venture capital firm, has created a portfolio of just transition solutions by focusing on building a responsible supply chain. Through fund design, the firm has built a model that is not only viable but commercially compelling.
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People-Centered Climate Action: Guidance for Private Capital Investors
Helpful guidance for private capital investors looking to adopt a people-centered approach to their climate investment strategies, with practical tools, case studies, and due diligence questions for general partners and limited partners.
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Portfolio Level Just Transition Tool (Beta)
This tool helps investment professionals identify high-risk areas of their portfolios and prioritize companies and/or segments for further assessment and engagement by considering business models, sectors, and country risk indicators.
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Stakeholder Engagement Guide (Beta)
Stakeholder Engagement Guide designed to help investors evaluate how well their portfolio companies engage with affected stakeholders or rights holders—the people most at risk from business activities.
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Climate Lens to Business Model Red Flags
This joint publication by BSR and Shift (released September 2025), updates and expands Shift’s Business Model Red Flags tool to incorporate a climate lens into relevant parts of the tool.
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Standards
Explore resources to help companies and financial institutions navigate evolving standards to identify, manage, and disclose just transition impacts, risks, and opportunities across their operations and value chains.
Sector Guidance
Explore guidance on people-centered climate action, including sector-specific insights on climate-related human rights impacts, risks, and opportunities, affected stakeholder engagement, due diligence questions, and good practice examples.