BSR Insights+

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the sixth edition of Insights+, the Human Rights, Climate, and Technology teams set out the latest developments in upcoming regulations, discuss the implications for how AI is utilized in business across industries, and spotlight key emerging issues.

With economic growth likely to be a key issue in the UK's next general election, leaders based in or with operations in the UK can take the lead in making the business case for sustainability.

BSR has been a driving force behind the Living Wage movement for the past 20 years. Explore trends behind the movement and what business needs to know.

BSR’s Supply Chain Sustainability team shares five recommendations for businesses to enable incoming regulation to support transformation, with SMEs at the heart of resilient supply chains. 

Explore key takeaways from a recent roundtable on “Business Leadership Amidst the 2024 Elections Around the Globe,” hosted by BSR and Kite Insights.

RISE spoke with women workers in Bangladesh and India to gather their perspectives on how they define career advancement and the barriers that prevent taking on supervisory positions.

Companies can support women workers in industries like textiles and agriculture by applying a gender lens to their living wage approaches.

Explore our roadmap for business on how to identify meaningful social KPIs and targets covering the entire value chain for companies in the EU.

Business-led multi-stakeholder collaborations play a key role in advancing the SDGs. Drawing on BSR’s extensive collaboration expertise and a partnership with Sida, learn practical examples from our work on SDGs.

To ensure that risk registers effectively measure human rights risks, BSR has outlined three approaches and opportunties for business.

For companies looking to improve outcomes for workers in agricultural supply chains, explore key takeaways from a pilot program developed for women in Northern Ghana’s shea supply chains by BSR, the Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, and partners.

With more than half the world’s voting population heading to the polls in learn more on the growing threats to democracy, the barriers to fair elections, and how business and business leaders can adapt to a world where a sense of economic precarity is fueling fear-based politics.

China’s national climate commitment aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and an emissions peak by 2030. What are the implications of these climate policies, specifically for global companies with substantial manufacturing operations in China?

BSR offers advice for Chief Sustainability Officers taking a concentric circles approach to the myriad of tensions and complexities in 2024.

In the coming months, BSR will be conducting a sector-wide human rights assessment (HRA) of GenAI to identify human rights risks across the value chain, from upstream data workers to model developers and end-users, and make recommendations on how to address these risks.

BSR and the NACD are proud to launch Oversight of Corporate Sustainability: A Board Primer.