Resources in 'Just Transition'

Anita Dorett, Director of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, warns of the pitfalls of relying on social audits to address state-sponsored forced labour risks.

The Investor Initiative on Human Rights Data will target big data and proxy houses to support just transition to a nature-positive and net-zero world.

Research finds negligible decline in state-imposed forced labour despite regulation, as Asia’s central position on issue draws eyes to Uyghur solar supply chain risk.

Does the transition away from fossil fuels towards ‘green’ or renewable forms of energy have a dark side?

The race for renewable energy faces a major hurdle: Uyghur forced labor.

The United Kingdom (“UK”)-based Anti-Slavery International, in combination with the Investor Alliance for Human Rights and the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, has published a series of reports addressing the issue of forced labor in solar and electric...

A recently published investor guide and policy brief on green technology supply chains found that more proactive strategies are needed to keep forced labor out of the supply chain in the U.K., reports The Independent. The report also highlighted that any actions taken to try and eliminate complicity...

A significant portion of solar and EV materials, essential to achieve emissions reduction targets, are produced in China’s Xinjiang region.

Investors and governments are not adequately addressing Uyghur forced labour risks in the renewable energy sector, research has found.

The solar and electric vehicle industries have been heavily impacted by forced labour in the region.