All Articles About Ecosystem Services

BSR Insight Article: On the Horizon: BSR’s Research & Innovation Agenda 2010

Interview with Faris Natour, Director, Research & Innovation, by Eva Dienel, Manager, Communications

Each year, BSR’s Research & Innovation department produces independent, applied sustainability research to help BSR members stay ahead of the curve and to advance corporate responsibility as a whole. The team’s aim is to offer practical solutions that will address the key sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow, with insights informed by BSR’s consulting work, interviews with business leaders, and our active participation in global initiatives that address sustainability issues for the private sector. Read more →

Posted: March 30, 2010 | Topics: Ecosystem Services, Environment, Human Rights, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

Report: Future Expectations of Corporate Environmental Performance

Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research; Sissel Waage, Director, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Kit Armstrong, Senior Advisor, BSR

This report—written with support from members of BSR's Environmental Services, Tools, & Markets Working Group—explores how managing environmental issues is broadening from a discrete, single approach to one that includes an assessment of how business may be affecting landscape-level ecological dynamics, such as flows of ecosystem services. Read more →

Posted: March 16, 2010 | Topics: Ecosystem Services, Environment | Download (PDF)

Blog: Rewarding the Right Performance

Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, Vice President, Europe, Middle East, and Africa

A French weekly magazine recently reported on its front page, “They are doing it again.” And by “it” they were referring to yet another banker’s feast of exorbitant bonuses as reward for the sector’s “terrific year.” Read more →

Posted: March 4, 2010 | Topics: Economic Development, Ecosystem Services

BSR Insight Article: Considering the Big Picture: Using Ecosystem Services Tools to Improve Corporate Environmental Performance

By Linda Hwang, Manager, Research & Innovation, BSR; Kit Armstrong, Senior Advisor, BSR; and Sissel Waage, Senior Advisor, BSR

In its 2008 corporate responsibility report, the Walt Disney Company made a pioneering commitment that the company will have a “net positive impact on ecosystems.” As part of this strategy, Disney will develop habitat and restoration solutions based on ecosystem impacts identified during the design-review process of new projects. In a similar fashion, some government agencies have begun to place more emphasis on ecosystems as a whole, as opposed to single environmental issues such as greenhouse gas emissions: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for example, has oriented its research agenda around ecosystem services, and the European Environment Agency began investing heavily in ecosystem services research and tools to aid its decision-making for management of environmental issues. Read more →

Posted: February 16, 2010 | Topics: Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Environment, Food, Beverage & Agriculture, Land Use & Biodiversity, Mining

Report: Sustainable Business Models: Time for Innovation

Business leaders face not only the economic fallout of the financial crisis, they face the substantial challenge of transitioning to a low-carbon economy that is constrained by dwindling natural resources. These pressures also represent opportunities to innovate new business models—including ones that help consumers make sustainable choices. Read about four categories of innovation that, with more development and experimentation, will ensure business success in a reset world. Read more →

Posted: November 28, 2009 | Topics: Ecosystem Services, Environment, Financial Services, Food, Beverage & Agriculture, Information & Communications Technology, Materiality, Media & Entertainment, Mining, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain, Water | Download (PDF)