Responsible Leadership in the Just Transitions

This book investigates how to achieve 'just transitions' to greener and more digitised economies with proper access to remedy for victims of harm. It comes in the background of acceleration of energy and digital transitions, and growing calls for these transitions to be "just", by mitigating the adverse impacts of human activity on nature and protecting and respecting the rights of people and promoting equality and justice. 
The volume explores what good remedy looks like in mineral value chains. It shines a light on remedy as a critical, yet underexplored, component of growing minerals supply in the context of international and national frameworks for responsible business conduct and sustainable mineral production. Diverse case studies from multiple jurisdictions cover a suite of ESG issues (e.g., tailings dam breaches, cultural desecration, gender-based violence, Indigenous rights violations, artisanal and small-scale mining) and guide the reader on what effective remedy looks like in practice, what barriers persist, and how enterprises, governments, and civil society can work together to overcome them. 
The chapters are organised into three sections according to the mechanisms - legal, institutional and grassroots - that are commonly deployed to address harm. Readers of this book will benefit from grounded insights into the lived realities of those affected by mineral extraction and processing in their quest for remediation of harms, from improved understanding of the promise and the limitations of remedy in practice, and from insights into how remedy is conceptualised, implemented and contested across different geographies and minerals. The conclusions present a set of key principles for making remedy more effective in mineral value chains, and make recommendations to a broad set of minerals sector actors on how to improve remedy and ensure minerals contribute to a positive legacy to future generations.