PLANNING & FINANCE
Planning is a critical starting point to embed human rights. So too is how a project is financed.
Investors and their expected returns will have a significant impact on whether a project or business prioritises positive social outcomes, including when governments are attracting private finance.
Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.
Action on climate change and disaster resilience emphasises participation and social cohesion
Guiding questions
Are steps taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to strengthen climate and disaster resilience throughout the project?
Have the impacts of climate change health and wellbeing (e.g. air quality, sewage disposal, river health etc) been communicated to local people?
Are efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to strengthen climate and disaster resilience as closely connected as possible to locally-determined needs, drawing on the meaningful participation of local stakeholders?
Have equity and non-discrimination been embedded in climate and resiliency efforts, to ensure that the benefits reach vulnerable members of the population (including workers), and avoid harm to them?
Stories and illustrative examples
International standards and tools
Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Prevention
Global Commission on Adaptation
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure
IFC Building Resilience Index (beta)
Sustainable Development Goals:
- Target 1.5: "By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters."
- Target 11.5: By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations.
- Target 11.b: By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels.
- Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.