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Recommendation 7:
Use foresight methodologies to plan for the long term and increase strategic resilience.
While human rights risk assessments can identify current vulnerabilities or crisis hotspots, they do not thoroughly examine the uncertainties of the future and the long-term impacts that may come with it. To understand how a business and its stakeholders may be affected, companies should develop an understanding of a myriad of potential future scenarios, influenced by climate change, human rights, and other social, economic, and political dimensions. Companies can test the resilience of their strategies or approaches against these scenarios and ensure that they are appropriately addressing the climate and human rights impacts that may arise.
Beyond supporting the creation of resilient strategies, the process of developing scenarios creates an opportunity to bring together decision-makers addressing climate and human rights risks throughout the company, providing the added benefit of promoting cross-department collaboration.
The Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, published in 2017, explicitly call for the use of scenario analysis to assess the potential business implications of climate-related risks and opportunities, and it is increasingly becoming a standard practice. However, the use of scenarios for the consideration of human rights is not yet mainstream, nor is it referenced in key frameworks, such as the UNGPs.
While human rights risk assessments can identify current vulnerabilities or crisis hotspots, they do not thoroughly examine the uncertainties of the future and the long-term impacts that may come with it. To understand how a business and its stakeholders may be affected, companies should develop an understanding of a myriad of potential future scenarios, influenced by climate change, human rights, and other social, economic, and political dimensions. Companies can test the resilience of their strategies or approaches against these scenarios and ensure that they are appropriately addressing the climate and human rights impacts that may arise.
Beyond supporting the creation of resilient strategies, the process of developing scenarios creates an opportunity to bring together decision-makers addressing climate and human rights risks throughout the company, providing the added benefit of promoting cross-department collaboration.
The Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, published in 2017, explicitly call for the use of scenario analysis to assess the potential business implications of climate-related risks and opportunities, and it is increasingly becoming a standard practice. However, the use of scenarios for the consideration of human rights is not yet mainstream, nor is it referenced in key frameworks, such as the UNGPs.
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Recommendation 10:
Undertaking strategic clean growth assessments. Several governments in Canada require policy proposals to include a strategic environmental assessment. The federal government has also developed a climate lens for major public investments in infrastructure. It is worth exploring an expansion of these tools to explicitly incorporate a broader set of criteria linked to clean growth objectives. For example, while an infrastructure project would naturally consider general economic objectives, it might not consider low-carbon growth objectives. A low-carbon growth lens could lead to a greater emphasis on “enabling” infrastructure investments that support low-carbon technology development and adoption.
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Recommendation 1:
Understand and identify rightsholders and communities most affected by the climate crisis.
Physical climate impacts, as well as climate solutions designed and deployed without input from relevant rightsholders, exacerbate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities of certain communities, resulting in disproportionate impacts to those populations. In order to build effective resilience strategies that take into account both climate resilience and human rights, businesses must understand how these vulnerabilities manifest across their value chains. This can be done by assessing the human rights impacts of climate change as part of existing risk assessment processes or through targeted human rights impact assessments or climate risk assessments.
Physical climate impacts, as well as climate solutions designed and deployed without input from relevant rightsholders, exacerbate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities of certain communities, resulting in disproportionate impacts to those populations. In order to build effective resilience strategies that take into account both climate resilience and human rights, businesses must understand how these vulnerabilities manifest across their value chains. This can be done by assessing the human rights impacts of climate change as part of existing risk assessment processes or through targeted human rights impact assessments or climate risk assessments.
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Recommendation 7:
Those whose conduct is being investigated by the inquiry should have an extremely limited role in influencing the development of the terms of reference.
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Recommendation 39:
The relevant provincial ministries should engage in extensive education and outreach to legislators and staff across the provincial government, and local governments to introduce the stigma-auditing tool to law and policymakers, and to train stigma auditors.
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Recommendation 307:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…add or make available specialized Crown counsel in every Crown counsel office to deal specifically with prosecution of cases relating to violence against women. (p.5)
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Recommendation 15:
The provincial and federal governments, as part of any commitment to federated Canadian identity systems, should have their technical systems and associated business practices audited by an independent party every three years, publicly table that audit and implement the auditors’ suggestions in a timely manner.
This report details the many IT systems in British Columbia that have received highly critical audits and in particular, have been found to have serious security flaws. Given the compounded jeopardy to security of a federated system, there is a need not only for audits of all parts of the system, but for implementation of auditor’s recommendations. The sweeping role envisioned for the national federated identity system, encompassing both the public and private sector, calls for rigorous attention to security issues.
This report details the many IT systems in British Columbia that have received highly critical audits and in particular, have been found to have serious security flaws. Given the compounded jeopardy to security of a federated system, there is a need not only for audits of all parts of the system, but for implementation of auditor’s recommendations. The sweeping role envisioned for the national federated identity system, encompassing both the public and private sector, calls for rigorous attention to security issues.
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Recommendation 24:
The provincial and federal governments should work with industry to ensure lower income families and youth have access to technology (both hardware and internet access) so that they are able to apply for financial assistance and access other supports.
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Recommendation 8:
The provincial and federal governments should address growing income inequality by continuing efforts to increase fairness in the personal income taxation system and re-introducing the principle of taxation based on ability to pay.
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Recommendation 11:
The possibility of amnesty for witnesses must be considered and publicly debated in the context of each individual inquiry.
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