About
About
JUST Stories is an initiative led by the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB).
Launched in 2024, JUST Stories is a global search for stories of people working together to advance just transitions.
Our team publishes long-form stories and short snapshots of examples of net zero transitions centred on the perspectives and the relationships of people involved. The handful of stories we report will share practical and useful lessons on how to embed the agency of those most affected into the early stages of net zero transitions.
The JUST Stories team will continue researching, examining and reporting stories throughout 2025.
Visit our FAQs page to learn more about JUST Stories’ outcomes, our Advisory Council, story eligibility, and our approach to reporting.
What are just transitions?
History is filled with examples of workers, Indigenous people and local communities being left behind in the wake of seismic economic and industrial shifts.
In 2015, the landmark Paris Agreement put the imperatives of a ‘just transition’ on the global climate agenda by acknowledging the importance of decent and quality jobs for the workforce, and opening the way for decarbonisation to deliver major social benefits.
Institutions everywhere face the urgent and daunting task of decarbonising in a way that does not harm – but actually creates opportunities for – the people at the heart of these urgent transitions.
JUST Stories is led by the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), the leading global think tank working to make respect for human rights part of everyday business. JUST Stories is guided by an Advisory Council made up of worker, indigenous, finance, and decarbonisation experts. It is co-chaired by Mary Robinson former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Sharan Burrow, former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.