Strong Policies Can Accelerate Business Action on the Just Transition

The We Mean Business Coalition and BSR propose five key policy areas—governance, workforce skills, stakeholder engagement, financing, and monitoring—to reduce investment risk and provide the clarity needed for multinational businesses to implement fair and inclusive climate action.

• The document identifies five priority policy areas where government action can enable business success in the just transition: governance and frameworks, skills and workforce transition, stakeholder engagement and protection, financing, and monitoring and metrics.
• To support workforce stability, the authors argue that governments should collaborate with training institutions and labor groups to establish national workforce strategies that ensure clean, decent jobs and maintain labor protections.
• The document emphasizes the need for government-backed financing to lower the cost of capital and de-risk private investment, specifically to support vulnerable regions, workers, and communities.
• For accountability and transparency, the document recommends that governments harmonize reporting standards and align with global disclosure frameworks such as the GRI and ISSB.

APA

Diffley, M. (2025). Strong Policies Can Accelerate Business Action on the Just Transition. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/strong-policies-can-accelerate-business-action-on-the-just-transition/

Chicago

Diffley, Maeve. Strong Policies Can Accelerate Business Action on the Just Transition. We Mean Business Coalition, 2025. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/strong-policies-can-accelerate-business-action-on-the-just-transition/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{diffley2025strong, author = {Diffley, Maeve}, title = {{Strong Policies Can Accelerate Business Action on the Just Transition}}, publisher = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/strong-policies-can-accelerate-business-action-on-the-just-transition/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }