Insights+

Volatility Changes the Playbook, Not the Goal

BSR's President and CEO revisits six questions we posed at the start of 2026 that continue to define the future of sustainable business. While the context has shifted, the central challenge remains the same: how can companies stay focused on long-term sustainability goals while embracing new ways of achieving them in an increasingly volatile world?

Reports

A More Pragmatic Era for Sustainability: Time to Act

BSR-GlobeScan 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey

Drawing on insights from more than 120 sustainability professionals, BSR and GlobeScan's 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey offers a snapshot of how leaders currently view operationalization, internal alignment, and the external influences driving sustainability today.

Sustainability FAQs

The Role of the Sustainability Team in Responsible AI

As AI adoption accelerates, companies face growing expectations to ensure its responsible development and use. While AI can advance sustainability efforts, it also introduces significant environmental, social, and governance risks. BSR outlines why Responsible AI is a critical sustainability issue and how CSOs and sustainability teams can influence AI governance. 

Podcasts

Responsible AI: A Conversation with Elisa Moscolin, EVP of Sustainability, Sage

Laura Gitman, BSR’s Chief Impact Officer, and Elisa Moscolin, Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Foundation at BSR Member, Sage, join host David Stearns to explore the nexus between AI and sustainability. Drawing on Sage’s AI journey and BSR’s engagement with CSOs, they discuss how companies are using AI to improve efficiency, reporting, strategy, and risk management, as well as how responsible AI is unlocking new opportunities to address sustainability challenges. 

Sustainability FAQs

Scaling Scope 3 Interventions for Climate and Nature: What Companies Need to Know Now

Implementation of Scope 3 interventions is entering a new phase. BSR unpacks the initiatives and trends shaping the landscape, actions companies can take to advance their Scope 3 strategies, and what to expect next as standards, regulations, and market practices continue to evolve.

Reports

A More Pragmatic Era for Sustainability: Time to Act

BSR-GlobeScan 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey

Drawing on insights from more than 120 sustainability professionals, BSR and GlobeScan's 2026 State of Sustainable Business Survey offers a snapshot of how leaders currently view operationalization, internal alignment, and the external influences driving sustainability today.

Sustainability FAQs

Managing AI’s Environmental Impacts

As companies move from AI pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, consumers, stakeholders, and regulators are expecting them to understand, measure, and manage AI-related environmental impacts. This FAQ provides practical starting points for sustainability professionals.

Tools

Scope 3 Interventions Landscape Primer

A Guide to Key Standards, Initiatives, and Regulations

This resource provides an overview of key standards, initiatives, and regulations shaping the Scope 3 interventions landscape to support companies with navigating an increasingly fragmented space and act credibly on Scope 3 interventions. ​

BSR Members Only

Insights+

Volatility Changes the Playbook, Not the Goal

BSR's President and CEO revisits six questions we posed at the start of 2026 that continue to define the future of sustainable business. While the context has shifted, the central challenge remains the same: how can companies stay focused on long-term sustainability goals while embracing new ways of achieving them in an increasingly volatile world?

Podcasts

Doing Business in an Era of Geopolitical Conflict

Aron Cramer, BSR President and CEO, and Ogi Kanaya, BSR Associate Director join host David Stearns to discuss how businesses are navigating an era of acute geopolitical tension and uncertainty. This episode explores the real world challenges companies are facing and how sustainability strategies can help protect people, stabilize operations, and build resilience in a rapidly shifting global landscape.

Insights+

Six Key Questions That Will Shape 2026 and Beyond

With continued global turbulence reshaping the economy, business, and society at the start of 2026, BSR CEO and President Aron Cramer poses six questions that are likely to define progress for sustainable business leaders in the year ahead.

Blog

A Year of Uncertainty: Ten Big Questions Facing Sustainable Business Leaders in 2025

With the promise of a “decisive” decade for achieving crucial goals falling short, BSR CEO and President Aron Cramer poses 10 questions that are likely to define progress for sustainable business leaders in 2025.

Tools

Human Rights Governance in 2026

Developed by the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), this resource showcases elements of effective human rights governance, critical insights into the working group members’ experiences with the subject, and findings from the 2026 BSR HRWG Human Rights Governance Survey.​

BSR Members Only

Insights+

Volatility Changes the Playbook, Not the Goal

BSR's President and CEO revisits six questions we posed at the start of 2026 that continue to define the future of sustainable business. While the context has shifted, the central challenge remains the same: how can companies stay focused on long-term sustainability goals while embracing new ways of achieving them in an increasingly volatile world?

Tools

From Commitment to Resiliency: Designing Durable Sustainability Governance

Insights from the Sustainability Governance Roundtable

Gain practical guidance from this overview of key member insights from the BSR Sustainability Governance Roundtable, in which members explored strategies to design sustainability governance structures, processes, and controls that are robust under scrutiny, responsive to an uncertain landscape, and practical to operate across the enterprise.

BSR Members Only

Insights+

Six Key Questions That Will Shape 2026 and Beyond

With continued global turbulence reshaping the economy, business, and society at the start of 2026, BSR CEO and President Aron Cramer poses six questions that are likely to define progress for sustainable business leaders in the year ahead.

Tools

Human Rights Governance in 2026

Developed by the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), this resource showcases elements of effective human rights governance, critical insights into the working group members’ experiences with the subject, and findings from the 2026 BSR HRWG Human Rights Governance Survey.​

BSR Members Only

Tools

Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas Risk Tool

Updated: May 2026. A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.

BSR Members Only

Primers

Human Rights Priorities for the Financial Sector

The financial sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for financial services companies. 

Primers

Human Rights Priorities for the Renewable Energy Sector

Explore the 10 most relevant human rights risks impacting businesses across the renewable energy sector value chain and the opportunities companies can take to mitigate their adverse impacts.