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Despite U.S. Uncertainty on Paris, Business Momentum for Climate Action Remains Strong thumnail image
Climate Change

Despite U.S. Uncertainty on Paris, Business Momentum for Climate Action Remains Strong

BSR urges the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change, and we are confident that the business community will continue to lead on climate action.

Registration Now Open for the BSR Conference 2017: How Business Leads thumnail image
Inside BSR

Registration Now Open for the BSR Conference 2017: How Business Leads

Join us this October at a new venue—in Huntington Beach, California—to explore how business leads on critical sustainability issues in a time of extraordinary change.

How to Increase Your Company’s Renewables Portfolio thumnail image
Energy and Extractives | Climate Change

How to Increase Your Company’s Renewables Portfolio

Here’s how to assess your options for procuring renewable energy and how to collaborate to increase your portfolio more quickly.

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce thumnail image
Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce

To achieve sustainability over the long term, Ethiopia’s emerging apparel industry must embed good business practice from the beginning.

New BSR Report: Scaling Clean Energy through Financial Industry Collaboration thumnail image
Financial Services | Collaboration | Climate Change

New BSR Report: Scaling Clean Energy through Financial Industry Collaboration

The transition to a low-carbon economy is underway. How can the financial services industry collaborate to scale clean energy finance?

How Myanmar is Building a Labor Dispute Resolution System thumnail image
Supply Chain | Human Rights

How Myanmar is Building a Labor Dispute Resolution System

Myanmar is following these four steps to build a process that helps to protect and enforce the rights and obligations of workers and employers.

The Future Looks Clean: New Sustainable Fuel Buyers’ Principles thumnail image
Climate Change

The Future Looks Clean: New Sustainable Fuel Buyers’ Principles

This new set of principles from our Future of Fuels initiative provides a robust framework for the road freight system to accelerate the transition to low-carbon, sustainable fuels.

How Newmont Ghana Empowers Women in the Workforce, Workplace, and Community thumnail image
Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain | Energy and Extractives

How Newmont Ghana Empowers Women in the Workforce, Workplace, and Community

We sat down with a team from Newmont Mining to understand what a successful approach to advancing women's economic empowerment looks like in practice.

New BSR Guidance Integrates Gender Equality into Supply Chain Codes of Conduct thumnail image
Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain

New BSR Guidance Integrates Gender Equality into Supply Chain Codes of Conduct

While codes of conduct are the most widespread tools companies use to drive sustainability throughout the supply chain, they don’t yet effectively frame and address the specific risks facing women.

Redefining Sustainable Business to Meet the Moment thumnail image
Inside BSR

Redefining Sustainable Business to Meet the Moment

In our era of immense change, it's time to redefine sustainable business with a new agenda, a new approach, and a new voice.

How Global Value Chains Push and Pull U.S. Companies on Climate Action thumnail image
Supply Chain | Climate Change

How Global Value Chains Push and Pull U.S. Companies on Climate Action

The push and pull of global value chains—from supplier engagement to the emergence of China as a new climate leader—will build momentum for climate action by companies in the United States.

Building Climate Resilience in Asia: Why Companies Should Invest in People thumnail image
Climate Change

Building Climate Resilience in Asia: Why Companies Should Invest in People

Investing in human capital is essential for enhancing societal and corporate resilience to climate change in Asia.

BSR at 25: Meeting the Moment thumnail image
Inside BSR

BSR at 25: Meeting the Moment

This year marks BSR’s 25th anniversary. And in a time of extraordinary change, we're staying firmly focused on what these shifts mean for the future of sustainable business.

How Men Can Help Empower Women through HERproject thumnail image
Women’s Empowerment

How Men Can Help Empower Women through HERproject

It has become increasingly clear that for women to be able to make and act on choices they value, support from men—as coworkers, as managers, and as family members—is vital.

Better Energy Management Electrifies the Corporate Agenda thumnail image
Climate Change

Better Energy Management Electrifies the Corporate Agenda

Forward-looking businesses are realizing huge cost savings by investing in energy efficiency measures and switching to renewable energy.