Where BSR will be in July

Authors

• Julia Robinson

  Former Manager, Communications, BSR

Melanie Janin, Communications Director, BSR

As summer heats up in many places around the globe, BSR staff will be busy attending and hosting various CSR-related events.

Where BSR Will Be:

• On July 5th, Jeremy Prepscius, BSR’s Asia Managing Director, and Nina Jatana, BSR’s Asia Communications Manager, will attend the EcoChic Design Award Hong Kong 2012 Grand Final, hosted by Redress.
• A number of BSR staff members will attend the EICC Membership meeting in Boston from July 16-18 to present on governance solutions for the EICC, HERproject, and the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights in the ICT Industry.
• On July 25 at 3:00 p.m. (BST) / 10:00 a.m. (EDT), our Advisory Services Manager Cody Sisco will speak about the future of supply chain sustainability in a webinar with 2 Degrees.

What We’re Hosting:

• On July 3 in Paris, BSR will host a breakfast workshop on stakeholder engagement and collaborative approaches with Antonio Manganella from CCFD Terre Solidaire. 
• On July 9-10, the BSR CiYuan team will host a workshop for Chinese companies and NGOs on various topics of business sustainability. Min Bao, BSR’s Partnership Development Manager, will deliver the key trainings; Brooke Avory, CiYuan Project Manager, will manage the Q&A portions of the event.
• On July 10 in Beijing, BSR is hosting a roundtable on sustainable agriculture in China. Kai Roberston, BSR’s Director of Food/Beverage/Agriculture, and Laura Ediger, BSR’s Environmental Manager, are speaking on global trends and challenges in sustainable agriculture supply chains, and how to partner with farm-based suppliers to implement sustainable practices.
• The Clean Cargo Working Group will host a webinar on July 11 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) / 5:00 p.m. (CEST) entitled "Driving Sustainability Goals through Transportation and Logistics."
• The BSR Human Rights Working Group held its first webinar last month with an overview of the landscape of human rights standards and high-level strategy advice. We are now well into our first module on Employee Engagement and Training, with an in-person meeting scheduled in San Francisco on July 16 and 17.
• The BSR Mills & Sundries Working Group will host its annual in-person meeting in Hong Kong on July 25. The Supplier Performance Tier grades will be released at this meeting, marking a major working group milestone.

We hope you’ll join us for some of these events this month. Let us know what you think—we welcome questions, feedback, and suggestions for new events.