Industrials | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Three Ways to Embed Sustainability in Public-Private Partnerships for U.S. Infrastructure
BSR sees investing in U.S. infrastructure as a major opportunity to create employment, upgrade to climate-friendly systems, and build a transportation system fit for a low-carbon economy.
Energy and Extractives | Climate Change
Clean Power Generates American Jobs and Business Competitiveness
Transformations in the U.S. energy sector toward renewable sources have led to increased employment, more efficient energy use, and more. Withdrawing from the Clean Air Act, including the Clean Power Plan, will slow this progress but will not undermine it.
Three Steps for Healthy Business Product and Program Design
Our new Healthy Business Coalition Innovation Playbook outlines an innovation process to help companies integrate their healthy business strategy into the design of new products, services, and programs.
Human Rights
Collaborating to Eliminate Modern Slavery: Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking
BSR is pleased to announce its appointment as secretariat of the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, which provides a collaborative space for companies to advance the fight against modern slavery.
Human Rights
Building Responsibly: Turning Challenges to Opportunities in Engineering and Construction
Building Responsibly—our new industry-led collaborative initiative with support from Humanity United—will enable construction and engineering companies to collaborate around their shared values, advance their programs through best-practice sharing, and more.
Are You Measuring Your Company’s Full Value Creation?
It matters to business success whether products and companies offer community, societal, and environmental benefits. And these benefits create value—to natural systems and human societies—that can be measured.
Sustainability Management
Building a Culture of Integrity to Transform the Maritime Industry
Rather than resolving issues as they arise or worsen, the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network now aims to shift the integrity culture of the maritime sector to a point where corruption is no longer entertained as a possibility in any port.
Human Rights
Human Rights by Design
Based on lessons learned from our recent human rights work, we have begun exploring the concept of “human rights by design,” which we believe could be essential for the long-term success of the business and human rights discipline.
Supply Chain | Collaboration | Climate Change
Three Reasons Why Collaboration Is Key to Green Freight
Through the Clean Cargo Working Group, which now represents 85 percent of ocean container shipping volume, we have seen the value to companies in addressing challenges collaboratively.
Sustainability Management
Calling All Sustainability Reporting Practitioners
We're launching a new collaborative initiative to provide a space for practitioners to share learnings, insights, and perspectives and address important questions about the future of sustainability reporting.
Turning Global Challenges into Collaborative Solutions: BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives
This year, we're strengthening BSR’s capacity to convene business and stakeholders on collaborative initiatives that generate concrete positive outcomes for business, societies, and the environment.
Sustainability Management
Redefining Business Leadership in a New Environment
As we witness a systematic assault on the foundations for a just and sustainable world, a new question is arising: How do companies and CEOs respond when basic principles are under attack?
Sustainability Management
Corporate Transparency under a Trump Administration
Three main implications for the future of corporate transparency point to the increasing importance of proactive and strategic approaches.
Sustainability Management
When the Business Case and Shared Value Aren’t Enough
Yes, businesses have to earn profits and provide a return to their investors, but has the focus on a business case for everything undermined what it means to be a good corporate citizen?
Sustainability Management
Four Stakeholder Engagement Trends to Watch in 2017
There are clear drivers in today's operating environment for multinationals to rethink their approaches to risk, resilience, and corporate responsibility. Here are four stakeholder trends to pay attention to this year.