Global challenges in 2025 - what do they mean for responsible business?
5 February 2025
Two months after the launch of IHRB’s Top 10 Business and Human Rights Issues for 2025, how are recent geopolitical developments impacting the issues in our list?
IHRB’s CEO, John Morrison, sits down with three colleagues, Salil Tripathi, Francesca Fairbairn, and Haley St. Dennis, to discuss a wide range of topics, from the backlash to DEI, to the value of international norms and standards, to how a second Trump term could impact just transitions. This conversation delves into the human rights complexities and challenges that these issues present to companies.
IHRB’s Top 10 Business and Human Rights Issues 2025 is available to read online or download. The Top 10 list - released every Human Rights Day - is our annual forecast of priority challenges and opportunities to advance responsible business practice in the year ahead.
Our 2025 Top 10 list explores some of the most important issues bound by a theme of uncertainty - whether due to breakdown in multilateralism, the spread of violent conflict, industry-changing legislation, or climate action inertia. It includes issues such as the rush for renewables, to AI risks, to the rise of ‘dark fleets.’
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Host: Deborah Sagoe, IHRB's Communications Coordinator
Producer & Editor: Helen Brown
Additional Contributors: Sam Simmons, IHRB's Head of Communications
