Advancing Nature-Positive Solutions for Business
Adopting a nature-positive lens to company operations and supply chains can help reduce risks and drive long-term business resilience.
Conflict and Modern Slavery: The Investment Perspective
As mandatory due diligence laws come into effect across Europe, examining and managing potential human rights risks are more critical than ever for companies and their investors.
Empowering Executives and Activating Boards: The New Nexus of Sustainability Governance
Boards of directors oversee many sustainability issues and address complex questions. Our advisory services aim to empower executives and Chief Sustainability Officers to engage, inform, and activate boards.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Creates Powerful Tailwinds for Net Zero Companies
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is historic legislation. BSR Managing Director David Wei shares how it will impact companies, from creating tailwinds for achieving net-zero goals to providing signals for the future of corporate climate action.
Best Practices for Human Rights Due Diligence in Tech Sales Channels
To fulfill their commitments to implementing the UNGPs, vendors need their sales partners to address end-use human rights risks. Explore our new brief, which shares guidance and best practices related to the human rights expectations of sales channels in the technology sector.
Inside BSR: Q&A with Ellinor Haggebrink
Inside BSR is our monthly series featuring BSR team members from around the world. This month, we connected with Ellinor Haggebrink, a Manager based in Copenhagen.
Business Leadership in the Great Fragmentation: Part 2
The divisions caused by “The Great Fragmentation” are a barrier to achieving an economy that drives equitable and sustainable progress. To meet the needs of our fragmented world, business can reorient their efforts around four main objectives.
BSR Response: How the EU’s Sustainability Reporting Standards Will Be a Game Changer
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) recently released a set of sector-agnostic exposure drafts that form the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). We share our response to EFRAG's public consultation.
How IFRS Sustainability Reporting Standards Can Contribute to Further Harmonization
BSR welcomes and has responded to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)’s two exposure drafts released in March 2022, grounding our comments in 30 years of experience working with member companies.
Business Leadership in the Great Fragmentation: Part 1
The world is fragmenting politically, economically, environmentally, and culturally. BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer shares the six interlocking factors that are accelerating fragmentation and why they're significant for business.
In Egypt, Digital Payroll Helps Garment Workers Reap What They Sew
Egypt's garment sector employs more than 1.5 million people, half of whom are women, offering an opportunity to promote women's economic empowerment. Here's how HERproject's Digital Wages partnership with Mastercard helped lead to increased financial inclusion and resilience for female garment workers.
Just Transition: Clean Energy with a Clear Conscience
To achieve a just and clean energy transition, meaningful multi-stakeholder cooperation between business, governments, labor experts, and environmental justice groups is critical.
A Business Approach to Reinforcing Democracy
More than 80 percent of business leaders see threats to democracy as threats to business. What can business do?
Delaying Climate Action: The Challenges of Moderating Climate Misinformation on Social Media
At a point when delays in climate action may lead to catastrophic and irreversible harm, companies must address climate misinformation urgently and decisively. Our new brief explores the specific challenges of moderating climate misinformation.
What the ESG Critics Are Right About—And Where They’re Misguided
After considerable momentum, there is now a backlash against elements of the sustainable business agenda. BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer discusses some of the big questions raised.
What Business Needs to Know about the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), all large, all listed, and some non-EU companies will be required to report sustainability information against mandatory European Sustainability Reporting Standards. Six things that business should know about the CSRD.