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Sustainability Management

Introducing the Sustainable Futures Lab

BSR has launched a new Sustainable Futures Lab, which will enable foresight-driven engagement with a broad spectrum of changes across various domains that are reshaping the context for business and sustainability.

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Collaboration | Climate Change

Redefining Sustainable Business: Radical Collaboration, Inside and Out 

Sustainability departments need to embrace and promote a spirit of “radical collaboration” if they are to achieve their objectives in a rapidly changing environment.

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Climate Change

New Climate Leadership to Realize the Paris Vision

Bold, collaborative business leadership on climate change will help realize the Paris Agreement vision of a resilient, low-carbon economy, and we are thrilled to see the trend continue during Climate Week NYC.

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Climate Change

Collaborating to Achieve Climate Leadership

These examples reveal that the future of climate action is a path charted with innovative and transformative partnerships.

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Inside BSR | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change

Where BSR Will Be During the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC

BSR staff will participate in events around the UN General Assembly and Climate Week in New York, as we work with the private sector to build climate resilience and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Climate Change

How Business Can Help Build Climate Resilience Today

Recent extreme weather events—from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma to Typhoon Hato in Hong Kong and southern China—have caused devastating displacement, financial damage, and loss of life. Here are three ways businesses can build adaptive capacity.

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Transport and Logistics | Human Rights

Emerging Human Rights Issues for the Transport and Logistics Sector

As we think about the changes shaping the world around us—whether as a result of trade, climate change, globalization, or automation—here are a few emerging human rights topics for transport and logistics companies to keep on their radars.

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Sustainability Management

Q&A: The Future of Sustainability Management

To kick off a Q&A series with our sustainability experts, we sat down with our Sustainability Management lead to discuss the past, present, and future of the field.

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Healthcare

Innovative Finance for Sustainability at Scale

Innovative finance represents a significant opportunity for increasing social impact and business value and closing the SDG financing gap. The healthcare sector presents some leading examples.

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Women’s Empowerment | Inside BSR | Human Rights | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change

Business Leadership: Continuing to Build the Momentum

As many of us prepare to gather in New York this month for Climate Week and the UN General Assembly, we are also focused on how to translate this important talk into action.

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Transport and Logistics | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Sustainability on the Move: Transportation Innovation

With transportation infrastructure about to be radically transformed through technological advances like autonomous vehicles, we foresee tremendous opportunities for sustainability.

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Technology

Turning the Internet Green: A Progress Update from BSR’s Future of Internet Power

Following completion of the Future of Internet Power initiative's fourth year of work, we’re taking a moment to look at our recent achievements and to highlight our ongoing efforts.

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Human Rights | Climate Change

The Human Rights Implications of the Renewable Energy Transition

We can expect the intersection between human rights and renewable energy to become increasingly relevant in our near future, and we invite you to be a part of this trend by integrating the human rights agenda into your business practices.

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Human Rights

Reflections from a BSR Summer Intern: How to Create Maximum Impact

One of our summer interns reflects on his experiences and what he learned about strategies for accelerating change and maximizing impact on business and human rights.

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Human Rights | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change

Next Steps for the (Former) Members of the Business Advisory Councils

In the wake of yesterday’s collapse of the advisory councils assembled by Donald Trump, here are five key principles for the business leaders who were on the councils to help define and promote a thriving economy.