BSR Insight Articles About Energy
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
(Not) Sharing the Benefits: A Business Risk?
Jessica Davis Pluess, Manager, Research
Ernst & Young's most recent annual report of business risks facing the mining and minerals industry has a notable addition this year: "sharing the benefits." Read more
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Reporting on Business Travel Emissions
Andrew Matthews, Associate, Advisory Services
Climate 2.0: What Is Expected of Business Now?
Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy
Business at large has only recently awakened to climate change—really just within the last 10 years. It started slowly, following the 1997 adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, and then it picked up speed after the development of industry-accepted greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring and reporting standards such as 2001's GHG Protocol and 2003's Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Read more
Is ‘Responsible’ Fracking Possible?
Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy
There's little in the current energy debate that isn't a hot button, and "unconventional" natural gas is especially controversial. A report released by the International Energy Agency outlines the challenges and opportunities of natural gas—such as that obtained by hydrofracturing, or "fracking"—and proposes "golden rules" for the industry and regulators to ensure environmental protection and community engagement, while making profitable extraction possible: Read more
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