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Humanitarian Action and Development
NRS-D2 Society, inclusion and human development risk; NRS-D4 Work, skills and livelihoods risk
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Just transition, human rights due diligence, consent, distribution and remedy
Just transition, social and human rights risk covers the social side of risk and transition: just transition for workers and communities, human rights due diligence, free, prior and informed consent, the distributional effects of climate policy, and grievance and remedy, applied to projects, supply chains and public policy.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Human rights due diligence practice.
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People and exposure, framed on the Sahel.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.
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For project developers, policy analysts and compliance teams who must assess the social and human rights consequences of a transition, a project or a supply chain and provide remedy when harm occurs.
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A carbon price costs each household the price times the carbon in what it buys; because poorer households spend a larger share of income on energy, the gross burden as a share of income falls with income, and whether the policy is regressive or progressive is decided by how the revenue is returned.
Sources: Ohlendorf and others, Distributional impacts of carbon pricing: a meta-analysis (2021); International Labour Organization, Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all (2015); United Nations, Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011); Vona, Job losses and political acceptability of climate policies: why the job killing argument is so persistent and how to overturn it (2019).
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nexustandards.com/humanitarian · 2 taught
NRS-D2 Society, inclusion and human development risk; NRS-D4 Work, skills and livelihoods risk
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NRS-H115 Labour and technology transition
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| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
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| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 2 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 1 |
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| Technology that helps | Digital public infrastructure and digital identity. |
| Risk technology creates | Exclusion, surveillance and the automation of work. |
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Start with United Nations, then International Labour Organization, then Ruggie.
Key terms
A shift to a low-carbon economy that is fair to workers and communities and leaves no one behind.
The ongoing process of identifying, preventing and accounting for human rights impacts.
The right of Indigenous Peoples to give or withhold consent to projects affecting them.
A process through which affected people can raise concerns and seek remedy.
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