Working Groups Overview
BSR leads or participates in a range of working groups and collaborative initiatives to address global sustainability challenges faced by companies today.
These forums for engagement meet regularly and allow unique opportunities for competing companies and their stakeholders to work together to maximize their sustainability impact and develop leading-edge, industry-wide solutions.
BSR working groups are run by BSR and accessible by BSR members only ★
Better Coal Learn more
Bettercoal is a global, not-for-profit initiative established by a group of major utilities to promote the continuous improvement of corporate responsibility in the coal supply chain.
Beyond Monitoring Learn more
BSR’s Beyond Monitoring Working Group is a company forum for defining and developing tools for a supply chain sustainability approach built on internal alignment, supplier ownership, worker empowerment and public policy frameworks. Through engagement with a diverse set of companies and supply chain experts, members identify and develop new approaches to implement within their businesses and with suppliers.
Clean Cargo Learn more
The Clean Cargo Working Group is a global business-to-business initiative made up of leading cargo carriers and their customers, dedicated to environmental performance improvement in marine container transport through measurement, evaluation, and reporting.
Ecosystem Services Learn more
This group focuses on emerging risks and opportunities associated with corporate reliance on, impact to, and revenue opportunities from ecosystem services and environmental markets.
Energy Efficiency Partnership Learn more
A cross-industry collaboration for BSR member companies to help suppliers modernize their energy management practices and reduce environmental impacts, currently focusing in China.
Future of Fuels Learn more
With world energy consumption set to rise by around 40 percent between 2012 and 2030, our energy system is changing fundamentally, making companies’ decisions about fuel more complex and important than ever before.
Health Care Working Group Learn more
The Health Care Working Group is a well-established forum (since 1999) for companies to come together to discuss corporate responsibility issues faced by the sector. Key issues tackled by the working group include access to health, human rights, country-level/localization of CSR, CR reporting, evolving CSR trends/regulations and more. In 2012, a primary focus of the group will be on developing an agreed set of guiding principles around access to health. The group currently includes 11 leading health care companies.
Licensing Working Group Learn more
The Licensing Working Group brings together licensors and licensees to develop tools and resources to help the industry uphold social and environmental standards, address the root causes behind non-compliance, and ensure that compliance is managed systematically across the entire licensing supply chain.
Mills and Sundries Working Group Learn more
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.
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Learn more
The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) is a group of major pharmaceutical companies who share a vision of better social, economic and environmental outcomes for all those involved in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Sustainable Luxury Working Group Learn more
The objectives of the SLWG are to discuss common environmental, social, and governance challenges facing the luxury sector, and to promote transparency, knowledge sharing, and collaboration across common global supply chains.
Sustainable Water Group Learn more
The Sustainable Water Group is dedicated to responsible practices around water use and wastewater discharge in global textile and apparel supply chains.