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From Climate Risk to Adaptation: Why El Niño is a Business Stress Test

With the 2026–27 El Niño expected to amplify already intensifying climate risks, adaptation is crucial for protecting business continuity and competitiveness. Drawing on engagement with nearly 100 stakeholders across industries, BSR explores how businesses can translate physical climate risk into practical adaptation plans across operations, supply chains, workforces, and communities.

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The Future of Sustainable Business Collaboration

The way companies work together to address systemic, cross-sector challenges is shifting significantly. BSR explores why sustainable business collaboration is changing, how future contexts may unfold, and key considerations for designing future-fit collaboration.

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Double Materiality Assessments—From Compliance to Strategic Integration

Double Materiality Assessments are evolving from periodic reporting exercises into ongoing strategic management processes. This FAQ outlines BSR’s perspective on leading practices for building integrated, decision-useful DMAs that meet emerging reporting needs and are connected to strategy, governance, financial relevance, and operational action.

Issue Briefs

Sustainability’s Biggest Challenge Isn’t Strategy—It’s Implementation

Closing the gap between strategy and implementation requires embedding sustainability into business decisions, operations, and partnerships. BSR shares six key internal, external, and systemic enablers of successful implementation and how companies can accelerate progress through peer learning.

Case Studies

Strengthening Signify’s Sustainability Strategy through Expert Review

BSR partnered with Signify to conduct an external expert review of its 2030 sustainability program, helping strengthen alignment between business objectives and evolving regulatory requirements ahead of board review and launch.

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Volatility Changes the Playbook, Not the Goal

BSR's President and CEO revisits six questions we posed at the start of 2026 that continue to define the future of sustainable business. While the context has shifted, the central challenge remains the same: how can companies stay focused on long-term sustainability goals while embracing new ways of achieving them in an increasingly volatile world?

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From Climate Risk to Adaptation: Why El Niño is a Business Stress Test

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BSR Recommends: Climate Week NYC and UNGA 2026 Events

Explore our curated list of events recommended by BSR staff to guide your Climate Week NYC experience.

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Scaling Scope 3 Interventions for Climate and Nature: What Companies Need to Know Now

Implementation of Scope 3 interventions is entering a new phase. BSR unpacks the initiatives and trends shaping the landscape, actions companies can take to advance their Scope 3 strategies, and what to expect next as standards, regulations, and market practices continue to evolve.

Reports

A More Pragmatic Era for Sustainability: Time to Act

BSR-GlobeScan 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey

Drawing on insights from more than 120 sustainability professionals, BSR and GlobeScan's 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey offers a snapshot of how leaders currently view operationalization, internal alignment, and the external influences driving sustainability today.

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The Future of Sustainable Business Collaboration

Reports

Accounting for Scope 3 Use-Phase Emissions for Software Companies

BSR's Scope 3 for Software Roundtable's new report shares practical steps to improve methodological consistency, strengthen data transparency, and enable more credible accounting of use-phase emissions.

Reports

Advancing Forced Labor Supply Chain Data Standardization

Two new Tech Against Trafficking reports provide comprehensive insights into how businesses and public sector actors collect data on forced labor risks and opportunities for greater standardization.

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Earth Day: Centering Health Equity in Climate Action

For long-term business resilience, it’s important to consider the health of people as well as the planet. Centering Health Equity in Climate Action shares insights on how business can integrate health equity into their climate action strategies.

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Case Studies

Strengthening Signify’s Sustainability Strategy through Expert Review

Case Studies

Developing a Financial Resilience Program with a Corporate Foundation

BSR partnered with The Estée Lauder Companies and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation to pilot and scale a bespoke financial literacy program for women workers across the Ghanaian shea supply chain.

Reports

Reproductive and LGBTIQ+ Health Access

Emerging Risks and Responsibilities

Access to reproductive and LGBTIQ+ healthcare is becoming increasingly fragmented across the United States. This report offers practical guidance to companies in various sectors on protecting their workforce, preparing for future impacts, and advancing meaningful solutions.

Reports

BSR Climate Scenarios 2025

Building Climate Resilience Through Strategic Foresight

2024 was the warmest year on record, with a global average surface temperature of more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial records. As climate risks intensify, the need for credible, science-based scenario planning has never been greater.

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Welcome to BSR Membership

Your Hub for Membership Resources

Consider this your main stop for all membership-related resources. To unlock your full range of exclusive benefits, please explore our resources and share them with your colleagues.

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