Connect with your peers
and find collaborative solutions to critical and emerging issues.

BSR leads and partners in a wide-range of multi-company and stakeholder collaborative efforts to address critical and emerging issues.

BSR-Led Groups

Apparel, Mills, & Sundries

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A forum of ten leading apparel and retail companies that work in partnership with their strategic suppliers to jointly achieve fair, safe, healthy, and environmentally friendly working conditions. Learn more.

Beyond Monitoring

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The Beyond Monitoring project creates systemic change in supply chains and materially improves the well-being of workers and communities globally. Learn more.

Clean Cargo

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The Clean Cargo Working Group is made up of 28 leading multinational manufacturers (shippers) and freight carriers and forwarders (carriers) that are dedicated to integrating environmentally and socially responsible business principles into transportation management. Learn more.

Health Care

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The international pharmaceuticals and health-care sectors play an essential role in improving the quality of life for individuals worldwide by developing medicines and health-care products and services that allow people to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Learn more.

Information & Communications Technology

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From service providers and equipment manufacturers to software and consumer electronics businesses, connect with a range of Chinese and international information and communications technology companies. Learn more.

Environmental Services, Tools & Markets Initiative

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The Environmental Markets Initiative works with corporate members to explore the relevance of environmental services concepts to corporate environmental strategies. Learn more.

Software

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The Software Working Group seeks to define corporate responsibility priorities for the sector and identify positive contributions its products and services can make to sustainability. Learn more.

Sustainable Water

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The Sustainable Water Group is dedicated to responsible practices around water use and wastewater discharge in global textile and apparel supply chains. Learn more.

Other Collaborative Initiatives

Better Work Buyers' Forum

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International buyers can connect and collaborate with key stakeholders in this forum to improve labor standards and competitiveness in global supply chains. Learn more.

Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

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BSR is a strategic partner of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), which brings together top information and communications technology companies committed to improving conditions in the global electronics supply chain. Learn more.

Global Network Initiative

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This multi-stakeholder group of companies, civil society organizations, investors, and academics takes a collaborative approach to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in the internet and telecommunications industries. Learn more.

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative

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This group of major pharmaceutical companies shares a vision of better social, economic, and environmental outcomes throughout the supply chain, including conditions for workers, economic development, and a cleaner environment for local communities. Learn more.

Sustainability Outlook

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A joint project with the Institute for the Future, Sustainability Outlook explores how the world is responding to sustainability challenges and the implications for the future of businesses. Learn more.

Voluntary Principles

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BSR serves as Co-Secretariat with the IBLF to the Voluntary Principles, a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides guidance to extractives companies on maintaining the safety and security of their operations within an operating framework that ensures respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Learn more.