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This section features research, reports and updates from the Resource Centre.
Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team.
Opinion pieces, interviews and blogs from across the business and human rights movement.
27 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025
Find out more about our impact, who we are and how we are funded.
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Climate change is the biggest risk to human rights. Meeting its challenge requires unprecedented roll-out of renewable energy projects across all regions in the coming years and decades. The renewable energy industry is at a crossroads: not only is it building the infrastructures of our future global energy system, it also has the potential to contribute to a fairer global economic order through a rights-respecting energy transition.
This fourth edition of the Renewable Energy and Human Rights Benchmark sheds light on the human rights policies and practices of 35 leading companies across the renewable energy supply chain.
The 2025 Benchmark looked closely at four key areas essential for the sector to drive a rights-respecting energy transition:
Explore the research and scoring methodology for the 2025 Benchmark. Research undertaken by the EIRIS Foundation including individual companies’ assessments, scoring and ranking of companies.
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This primer sets out how investors can engage with the wind and solar sectors, reducing exposure to operational and legal risks and supporting sustainability of investments in the sectors
Explore how companies score – and what additional steps they should consider.
Discover our detailed recommendations for companies in the wind & solar sector to lead on a fast and fair energy transition
News and resources from Indigenous Peoples Rights International and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre exploring the significant opportunity of Indigenous co-ownership of renewable energy projects, for an energy transition that is fast, just and equitable.
In consulted with Indigenous groups, trade unions, investors and companies, the Resource Centre has consolidated these principles three core principles would guide a fast and fair energy transition: shared prosperity; human rights and social protection; and fair negotiations.
In 2023, the third edition of the Renewable Energy & Human Rights Benchmark shed light on the human rights policies and practices of 28 companies in the renewable energy value chain – from equipment manufacturers to developers. See how companies scored.
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