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BSR Insight Articles About Climate Change

The Future of Fuels Forecast

Eric Olson, Senior Vice President, Advisory Services

Energy is both the engine of the modern global economy and one of the biggest drivers of our sustainability challenges, including climate change. Providing access to affordable sources of energy will be critical to alleviating poverty and ensuring peace and prosperity for the 9 billion people expected to inhabit Earth in 2050. However, if we don't find ways to address the negative sustainability impacts of our energy sources—including many of the newer technologies, from unconventional fossil fuels to fuels and technologies that specialize in reducing carbon—these benefits will be undermined. Today, BSR is releasing the first working paper from our Future of Fuels initiative, which brings together critical players from the corporate, NGO, and public sectors in a series of facilitated dialogues, supported by research, designed to: Read more 

Posted: October 9, 2012 | Topics: Climate Change, Energy, Transportation

Time to Listen to Planet Earth: Peter Bakker at World Water Week

Ryan Flaherty, Manager, Advisory Services

"I don't think the planet is talking to us anymore. I think she is screaming at us, and water is the language she is using." Read more 

Posted: September 18, 2012 | Topics: Climate Change, Environment, Food, Beverage & Agriculture, Water

CDP’s Global 500 Survey Highlights Gap Between Intentions and Results

Andrew Matthews, Associate, Advisory Services

Of the 81 percent of Global 500 companies that responded to the Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) annual report on company disclosures on climate change, 78 percent had integrated climate change into their corporate strategies. Read more 

Posted: September 18, 2012 | Topics: Climate Change, Reporting & Communications

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