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SHARED SPACE UNDER PRESSURE: BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR CIVIC FREEDOMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Bennett Freeman, 2018

https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/fdfe07e3d812cfcfed4235fbbf820a3d77599b13.pdf

This piece offers guidance for companies on how to protect civic freedoms and support human rights defenders. It outlines the normative framework, business case, and moral considerations for corporate engagement, emphasizing the importance of understanding the reality and severity of harms, the company's involvement, and the context in which they operate.

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ReportPolicyLink

The Values We Share: Views on Government, Fairness, and Equal Protection in the United States

Anna Kim, Vanice Dunn, and Gretchen Barton of Worthy Strategy, 2025

Interviews with 48 Americans from across ideological and demographic groups reveal broad commonality in wanting fairness and clear expectations of government—such as equal rule enforcement, responsive leadership, transparent decision-making, and dignified public services. At the same time, people diverge on what constitutes fairness, with some emphasizing opportunity, others consistent process, and others tangible outcomes that prove fairness is real. Provides a starting point for stakeholder engagement, and suggests approaches that speak to concerns across the political spectrum.

PresentationThird Side Strategies

Third Side Strategies Information Sheet

2025

An introduction to Third Side Strategies, including the rationale for focusing on CPR Governance to enable long-term value for business and society. Outlines the main motivations -- including Risk Management, Long-term Value Creation, and Supporting Business Purpose and Fiduciary Duty. Includes the main services offered and how to get involved

ReportBCG and University of Cambridge

Too Hot to Think Straight, Too Cold to Panic: Landing the Economic Case for Climate Action with Decision Makers

Amine Benayad, Annalena Hagenauer, Lars Holm, Edmond Rhys Jones, Sahradha Kämmerer, Hamid Maher, Kamiar Mohaddes, Sylvain Santamarta, and Annika Zawadzki, 2025

This report examines the economics of action and inaction on climate, energy and the environment, and finds that failing to limit global warming to below 2°C could reduce cumulative global GDP by 15% to 34% by 2100. Conversely, the analysis suggested that investing 1% to 2% of global GDP in mitigation and adaptation efforts would significantly reduce these economic damages. They conclude that the net cost of inaction—climate change impacts minus the cost of action—is estimated at 11% to 27% of cumulative GDP, underscoring the economic imperative for proactive climate and energy strategies.

ArticleSHRM

Top 5 Geopolitical Threats to Businesses in 2025

Ashleigh Popera, 2025

Summarizes five key threats based on The Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2025 report, including international rivalries, global political instability, trade disruption, rising nationalism and political polarization in the workplace. Recommends assessing risk and governance, leveraging innovation and digital transformation, and strengthening cybersecurity.

ReportDNB (De Nederlandsche Bank)

Updated Guide to Managing Climate and Nature-Related Risk

De Nederlandsche Bank, 2025

This updated guide from the Dutch central bank provides supervisory expectations for financial institutions regarding climate and nature-related risks. It emphasizes governance frameworks, scenario analysis, nature-risk taxonomy, disclosures, and integration of biodiversity/natural-capital concerns alongside climate. It indicates how insurers, banks and asset-managers must incorporate natural-system dependencies into risk frameworks and corporate strategy.

ArticleThe New Yorker

What Could Citizens' Assemblies Do for American Politics?

Nick Romeo, 2025

Explores how citizens' assemblies—randomly selected groups with active facilitation deliberating on policy—could improve U.S. democratic decision-making, improve trust and reduce polarization. Shares a successful initiative in Oregon to address youth homelessness.

BookRiverhead Books

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, 2025

This book explores who works for the government and specifically what work do they do. In a time of increased focus on government workers, this book explores the role of government workers through specific examples and stories.

ArticleUC Berkeley News

With right and left deeply divided, emerging UC Berkeley groups embrace the ‘vital center’

Edward Lempinen, 2025

Emerging student groups at UC Berkeley are creating spaces fostering respectful connection across political divides by promoting civil discourse, hosting open debates, and offering courses that equip students with skills to engage diverse perspectives—grounded in the belief that seeking knowledge is the primary mission.

ReportJournal of Democracy

America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue

Arthur C. Brooks, 2024

This article explores the erosion of civic norms, institutional trust, and public-spirit in the United States, arguing that declining civic virtue undermines democratic stability, social cohesion and business environments. It reflects how corporate actors operate in a context of systemic fragility and how their behaviors can either mitigate or exacerbate institutional decline.

Report Frameworks Institute

Filling in the Blanks: Contesting What “the System is Rigged” Means

Frameworks Institute , 2024

This report examines the narrative “the system is rigged” and how it undermines trust in institutions, markets and businesses. It offers analysis of framing effects, public attitudes and communication strategies to help leaders rethink how they respond when stakeholders perceive business and government systems as unfair.

ToolB Lab

A Policy Advocacy and Collective Action Toolkit for Business

2024

This toolkit helps B Corps and values-driven companies turn their mission into action through clear steps for engaging in policy advocacy—offering templates, case studies, and guidance on building coalitions, crafting messages, and showing up credibly in the public arena.

ReportNiskanen Center

A state capacity agenda for 2025

Jennifer Pahlka, Andrew Greenway, 2024

This report argues that to meet the demands of democracy, government must be reorganized to effectively carry out the goals set by the people’s representatives, and offers a four-part agenda to rebuild state capacity through hiring reform, procedural streamlining, digital modernization, and stronger feedback systems.

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

ACI & IFF on Sustainability Initiatives

Renee Henze of IFF and Nathan Sell of the ACI, 2024

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Addressing Concerns about Being Too Political

Angeli Patel with the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, 2024

ReportPowell Tate

Americans to Business: Find Common Ground, But Avoid Politics

2024

This survey reveals that while Americans expect businesses to take a stand on important social issues, they want them to steer clear of political involvement. Respondents call on companies to focus on finding shared values and solutions, rather than engaging in partisan debates.

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Applying CPR to Commercial Determinants of Health

Dr. Nason Maani of University of Edinburgh, 2024

ArticleYale Institute for Social and Policy Studies

Can Citizens’ Assemblies Help Restore Trust in Government?

Rich Harrison, 2024

This article is a summary of a conversation hosted by Democratic Innovations at Yale's ISPS. Led by ISPS Director Alan Gerber and ISPS faculty fellows and political science professors Hélène Landemore and Adam Meirowitz, Democratic Innovations serves as a laboratory to identify and test new ideas for improving the quality of democratic representation and governance. It recaps insihgts from the conversation hosted by Landemore and Theophile Penigaud de Mourgues, a postdoctoral associate with Democratic Innovations, and Jonathan Moskovic, advisor in democratic innovation for the president of the French-speaking Brussels Parliament.

ReportCeres

Ceres 10-Point Plan for the Insurance Industry

2024

This action plan outlines 10 clear steps for how insurers can lead on climate, setting it apart by emphasizing science-based targets, underwriting reform, and equitable resilience. It combines strategic, operational, and policy actions to help insurers align with net-zero goals while supporting vulnerable communities and driving systemic change.

ArticleCeres

Ceres 10-Point Plan for the Insurance Industry

Jaclyn de Medicci Bruneau, 2024

Ceres’ 10-point plan calls for the insurance industry to lead in addressing climate-related financial risks. It outlines actions spanning disclosure, pricing reform, equitable access, and climate-resilient infrastructure, positioning insurers as advocates for systemic resilience and decarbonization. The roadmap aligns with CPR principles by linking fiduciary responsibility, transparency, and social equity to long-term system stability.

WebsiteCivic Alliance

Civic Journey Guide

2024

The Civic Alliance is a nonpartisan coalition of more than 1,300 businesses united by a commitment to a thriving democracy, which they believe depends upon active participation in safe, accessible, and trusted elections.

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