Publications & Resources
Social Cost and Material Loss: The Dakota Access Pipeline (Case Study)
The case study Social Cost and Material Loss: The Dakota Access Pipeline examines the numerous impacts attendant to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project to highlight the costs that companies, financial institutions, and investors faced by failing to account for the human rights of indigenous peoples. This case study asserts that social risk resulting from the absence of adequate human rights protections has material impacts.
Drawing from interviews with 22 practitioners comprising philanthropic investors, private investors, Native intermediaries, and Native entrepreneurs, research demonstrates how catalytic capital in Indian Country enables long-term, culturally-aligned success.
Through a lens of equitable partnerships, this investor brief reviews some of the risks and opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Analysis of twelve Indigenous Rights Risk shareholder proposals to major banks, insurance companies and more.
A guide to support Indigenous leaders in developing protocols and processes for FPIC priorities. Published with Cultural Surivial and the SIRGE Coalition.
Though community-driven applied research, this report examines the current state of Native food supply chains and collates recommendations towards strengthening and expanding these chains from Native perspectives.
Scaling enterprise in Indian Country through private equity offers enormous opportunity as tribes seek to diversify their economic development and, given the impacts of the global pandemic, provide jobs and economic opportunities to their citizens.
Research examines the intersection of sex trafficking and oil and gas development on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and provdies strategies to address this complex issue.
The first quantitative metrics for measuring risk of financial losses caused by conflicts with indigenous peoples as applied to 52 US-based oil, gas and mining companies with operations on or near indigenous land, and predicted expensive controversies.
A database of UN mechanisms and industry standard setting bodies that have FPIC commitments, with instructions for how Indigenous Peoples can influence and participate in their processes.
Analyizes how lack of oversight and suboptimal data are two key obstacles preventing positive relationships between companies and Indigenous Peoples.
Documents Indigenous Peoples’ history of engagement with SRI and ESG investors since the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s support for the Crow Tribe’s opposition to coal strip mining in 1971. Updated July 2015 for GreenMoney.