Report Category
Environment
A Practical Approach to Greening the Electronics Supply Chain
June 2010 | Download the report
This report, published by BSR and the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), reflects on the EICC’s efforts to increase transparency and focus on emissions reduction with respect to greenhouse gases (GHG) in the electronics industry.
Seeding Positive Impacts: How Business and Civil Society Can Contribute to the Sustainability of Chinese Agriculture
June 2010 | Download the report
This report features examples of private-sector and civil-society initiatives that address the environmental impacts of agricultural supply chains in China.
A Chinese version of the report is available here.
Unlocking Energy Efficiency in China
May 2010 | Download the report
This guide helps global sustainability professionals establish supply chain energy-efficiency programs, with a focus on China. The report outlines how companies can succeed with a four-step process that includes building foundations for a comprehensive program, helping suppliers take the first steps, facilitating progress over time, and enhancing the program’s impacts.
Future Expectations of Corporate Environmental Performance
March 2010 | Download the report
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.
As leading companies begin to make ecosystem-services-related commitments, there is a need to identify, measure, assess, and even valuate companies' impacts and dependencies on ecosystem services.
This report assesses the emerging domain of ecosystem services tools and how these tools could interface with existing decision-making processes.
Supplementary materials and the "2009 State of Global Ecosystem Services Policy Developments" report are also available for download.
Communicating on Climate Policy Engagement
March 2010 | Download the report
Public policy engagement has rapidly become a crucial aspect of reporting on climate change. While reporting on direct climate impacts and on risks and opportunities remains important, environmental advocates and other stakeholders are calling on companies to demonstrate how they are playing a role in climate policy development. In response, a growing number of companies are reporting on their climate policy engagement efforts, and emerging third-party measurement frameworks are providing a basis for comparison.
Understanding and Preventing Greenwash: A Business Guide
July 2009 | Download the report
Do you trust business?
If you answered "yes," consider yourself unusual. According to a 2009 Edelman study of more than 20 countries, global trust in business is at an all-time low and diminishing, with people less trustful of all sources of information about companies.1 The "Edelman Trust Barometer," an output of this research, shows trust in advertising is down to 13 percent from 30 percent, and trust in company websites is down to 21 percent from 30 percent.
Water Quality and Environmental Health in Southern China
July 2009 | Download the report
The Pearl River Delta in southern China combines abundant freshwater resources and high population density with one of the most intensive export manufacturing zones in the world. The rapid development of the area over the last 20 years has created a similar boom in water pollution discharge, which provincial environmental protection officials have been scrambling to contain.
Building Carbon Inventories in China
June 2009 | Download the report
Measuring Corporate Impact on Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Review of New Tools
December 2008 | Download the report
Learn how to integrate new ecosystem services into your corporate planning and daily decision-making. This report on ecosystem services—the collective benefits provided by a community of animals and plants interacting with one another and with their physical environment, such as clean water and pollination of plants—allows you to compare the various tools that measure and assess the value of ecosystem services.
Measuring Corporate Impact on Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Review of New Tools (Executive Summary)
By Sissel Waage, Emma Stewart and Kit Armstrong | December 2008 | Download the report
Learn how to integrate new ecosystem services into your corporate planning and daily decision-making. This report on ecosystem services—the collective benefits provided by a community of animals and plants interacting with one another and with their physical environment, such as clean water and pollination of plants—allows you to compare the various tools that measure and assess the value of ecosystem services.
Word from the Street: Water
May 2008 | Download the report
Water Management in China's Apparel and Textile Factories
April 2008 | Download the report
Word from the Street: Toxicity & Health
April 2008 | Download the report
Beyond Compliance: Assessing Water Management Practices and Opportunities in Chinese Apparel Factories
April 2008 | Download the report
Drinking It In: The Evolution of a Global Water Stewardship Program at The Coca-Cola Company
April 2008 | Download the report
Offsetting Emissions: A Business Brief on the Voluntary Carbon Market (Second Edition)
February 2008 | Download the report
The New Markets for Environmental Services: A Corporate Manager's Resource Guide to Trading in Air, Climate, Water and Biodiversity Assets
December 2007 | Download the report
Biofuels for Transportation: The Next Energy Revolution or a Fix That Fails?
December 2007 | Download the report
Bio-Carbon and Corporate Climate Strategy: A Business Brief on Emissions Reductions Via Forestry and Land Use Projects
November 2007 | Download the report
Environmental Markets, Executive Briefing
October 2007 | Download the report
Understanding the Renewable Power Options for Your U.S. Operations
October 2007 | Download the report
Achieving Effective REACH Implementation: A BSR Issue Brief on New European Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH)
October 2007 | Download the report
Beyond Neutrality: Moving Your Company Toward Climate Leadership
October 2007 | Download the report
At the Crest of a Wave: A Proactive Approach to Corporate Water Strategy
September 2007 | Download the report
Getting Carbon Offsets Right
July 2007 | Download the report
Who's Going Carbon Neutral?
June 2007 | Download the report
Dipping Their Toes In
May 2007 | Download the report
A Three-Pronged Approach to Corporate Climate Strategy
October 2006 | Download the report
Environmental Markets: Opportunities & Risks for Business
July 2006 | Download the report