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

Five Supply Chain Questions on Members’ Minds

Across industries, companies are navigating a shared set of supply chain challenges driven by evolving regulations, data scarcity, and diverging stakeholder expectations. BSR unpacks five of the most pressing supply chain sustainability questions we’ve received from members in 2026.

Podcasts

Responsible AI: Regulatory Trends and Governance Challenges

Richard Wingfield, Director of BSR's Responsible Tech practice, and Will Manley, Head of Digital Regulation for the international law firm Slaughter and May, join host David Stearns to discuss the geopolitical and regulatory trends shaping how companies develop, procure, and deploy AI tools and products. From the EU’s comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Act to the U.S.’s more decentralized, innovation-led approach, the conversation examines how divergent regulatory models around the world are influencing companies’ business strategy, risk management, and responsible AI governance.

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+

Climate Targets at a Crossroads: What Comes Next?

As 2025 climate targets close in, companies are confronting mixed progress, external pressures, and growing internal scrutiny. BSR’s Climate and Nature team explores current headwinds to target setting, how BSR members are responding, and how to design climate targets that create shareholder value, reduce risk, and build long-term resilience. 

Tools

BSR Recommends: London Climate Action Week 2026 Events

Explore our curated, member-exclusive list of events recommended by BSR staff to guide your London Climate Action Week (LCAW). 

BSR Members Only

Tools

Decarbonization Lever Library

With BSR's Decarbonization Lever Library, companies will be able to pinpoint the origin of their emissions across Scopes 1-3, connect each source with the most effective decarbonization solutions, and identify practical steps to take now to capture future transition opportunities.

BSR Members Only

Companies

LuxExperience Group

Case Studies

Developing a Financial Resilience Program with a Corporate Foundation

BSR partnered with The Estée Lauder Companies and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation to pilot and scale a bespoke financial literacy program for women workers across the Ghanaian shea supply chain.

Reports

Reproductive and LGBTIQ+ Health Access

Emerging Risks and Responsibilities

Access to reproductive and LGBTIQ+ healthcare is becoming increasingly fragmented across the United States. This report offers practical guidance to companies in various sectors on protecting their workforce, preparing for future impacts, and advancing meaningful solutions.

Reports

BSR Climate Scenarios 2025

Building Climate Resilience Through Strategic Foresight

2024 was the warmest year on record, with a global average surface temperature of more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial records. As climate risks intensify, the need for credible, science-based scenario planning has never been greater.

Companies

Zenobe Energy Ltd

Companies

Woodside Energy

Companies

Alcoa Corporation

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.

Companies

Standard Life plc

Companies

Exim Bank Malaysia

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. 

Reports

Advancing People-Centered Climate Action in Private Capital Markets

BSR has launched the People-Centered Climate Action in Private Markets (PCAP) initiative, alongside a suite of practical tools and resources, to help investors align climate strategies with human rights and advance a just transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy through the mobilization of private capital.