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This resource provides insight into the issues faced by transgender and nonbinary individuals and offers guidance on promoting inclusivity in the workplace, deepening understanding, and developing policies rooted in community voice.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Organizations face the challenge of managing a workforce that spans multiple generations. BSR provides practical strategies for navigating the diverse needs, preferences, and perspectives of different generations within the workforce.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Biases in data collection and analysis can inadvertently perpetuate inequality and lead to discriminatory outcomes. Explore the challenges posed by biased data and gain insights into adopting inclusive approaches to data gathering and analysis.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Businesses can take steps to protect low-income workers and communities and to invest in policies that will create an economy that works for everyone. Economic equity is a pathway to this investment.

Cultural humility goes beyond surface-level knowledge and emphasizes self-reflection, awareness of power dynamics, and recognizing one's own limitations when engaging with individuals from different cultures. BSR explores the concept and provides specific tips for deepening understanding and developing policies rooted in community voice.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

This article provides companies with a comprehensive overview of accessibility and inclusive design, along with practical tips for deepening their understanding and developing policies.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

These scenarios, centered on reproductive health and LGBTIQ+ care, imagine three pathways for US policy depending on the outcomes of the 2024 elections.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Sustainable Futures Lab

Regulators (and markets) are faced with rising pressure from different stakeholders—and exerting their own—to standardize and mandate company sustainability practices via reporting and public disclosure. BSR shares environmental, social impact, and governance considerations for companies on the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Business Transformation

BSR conducted an assessment with the goal of providing insights about general practices regarding responsible supplier exit to help inform company strategies and approaches to the issue. This review provides companies with an overview and identifies recommendations on minimum requirements, leadership in the space, and quick wins. 

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Companies face a growing need to address the human rights risks within their transport and logistics operations. BSR shares principal risks and challenges in the sector, gaps and opportunities in current approaches, and potential paths to move forward, including through collective action.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

A wave of global uncertainty is disrupting industries worldwide, including healthcare. Certain trends are impacting the industry in unique ways, prompting the need for strategic preparation to navigate this evolving landscape.

Healthcare

Businesses are using climate scenario analysis to identify climate-related risks and opportunities, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. Explore how the transport sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, including potential trends and possible business implications.

Transport and Logistics, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Scenario planning can inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present key opportunities for bold action. Explore how the technology sector may be impacted in three climate scenario narratives, with insights on critical business opportunities for companies, regions most likely to face physical risks, and more.

Technology, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can enhance organizational resilience by identifying key climate risks and opportunities. Explore how the industrials sector might be impacted in three different climate scenarios, including regions most likely to experience physical impacts and possible key trends.

Industrials, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can help businesses identify climate-related risks and opportunities, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. BSR's Climate Change team analyzes how the food, beverage, and agriculture sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, including sectoral trends and potential business implications.

Food, Beverage, and Agriculture, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Scenario planning can help inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present key opportunities for bold action. Learn about how the financial services sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, from implications for business to regions most likely to face physical risks. 

Climate Change, Financial Services, Sustainable Futures Lab

Businesses are using climate scenario analysis to identify climate-related risks, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. Explore how the energy sector might be affected in BSR's new climate scenario narratives, from potential business opportunities to sector trends likely to be impacted.

Energy and Extractives, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can help enhance organizational resilience by identifying key climate risks and opportunities. Explore how the Consumer Products sector may be impacted in three climate scenario narratives, including insights on regions likely to experience the greatest physical risks and potential sector trends.

Consumer Products, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Business, government, and civil society leaders from around the world will come together in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC for critical discussions on environmental and social issues. Explore our list of key events hosted by BSR and others to help you maximize your participation this fall.

Climate Change, Human Rights, Business Transformation, Sustainability Management

Companies are navigating significant organizational shifts in sustainability governance due to new mandatory reporting requirements. Against the evolving regulatory landscape, how can companies strategize effectively across job functions?

Business Transformation, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Management

These scenarios imagine four pathways for US climate policy depending on the outcomes of the 2024 election. They function as a tool to challenge assumptions about the future, stress test strategies and plans, and identify opportunities to futureproof organizations and steer the world toward better outcomes.

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab, Sustainability Management, Election Uncertainty in 2024

This two-part simulation can provide users with a tangible experience of how misinformation and disinformation related to the election might play out within a fictional retailer based in Phoenix, AZ. 

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab, Sustainability Management, Election Uncertainty in 2024

This simulation can help users experience how election interference associated with corporate political giving might play out within the bounds of a fictional technology company based in Atlanta, GA.

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Sustainability Management, Sustainable Futures Lab, Election Uncertainty in 2024

Scenario planning can inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present opportunities for bold action. Explore our new climate scenario narratives now.

Climate Change

July 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Explore opportunities to engage with BSR and our global team of experts throughout your membership year.

BSR unpacks the distinction between "nature" and "biodiversity."

Nature

An overview of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, including an overview of the Directive and its requirements as well as a section for frequently asked questions.

Human Rights, Supply Chain, Sustainability Reporting

As the operating context for business constantly changes, strategies that do not consider the emerging future are already becoming obsolete. Scanning the horizon for new trends and disruptions can reveal opportunities for companies.

Financial Services, Sustainable Futures Lab

BSR discusses its perspective on nature, why nature is important to business, and its key service offerings. 

Nature

This deck discusses deforestation and conversion issues, explains key figures, and provides preliminary recommendations for how business should tackle deforestation issues.

Nature

As companies progress at a slower pace than expected on energy efficiency and decarbonization, explore how business can address the tension between growth and sustainability targets.

Climate Change, Nature, Business Transformation

In response to regulation and consumer demand, Digital Product Passports are emerging as a means to enable end-to-end product traceability, provide detailed product information and enable circularity. This guide provides an overview of Digital Product Passports and the regulations driving their adoption as well as how to set up a DDP and best practices across key industries.

Consumer Products, Supply Chain, Industrials, Transport and Logistics

Based on interviews with member companies operating in the Transport and Logistics sector, BSR shares the 10 most relevant human rights impacts for such businesses.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

An overview of modern slavery, the relevant legislative trends and regulations, a brief analysis of responsible recruitment, and an introduction to BSR’s service offerings to address modern slavery. 

Human Rights

An overview of the EU Forced Labor Regulation, covering general scope, obligations for companies and enforcement mechanisms.

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Updated: April 2024. A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.

Human Rights

April 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

This briefing provides an overview of business implications and recommended actions related to Myanmar’s military conscription law.

Human Rights

This is an introduction to sustainability reporting, including a high-level overview of the drivers, audiences, and benefits of reporting, as well as a mock-up of a sample voluntary sustainability report that demonstrates BSR’s principles for good sustainability reporting.

Sustainability Reporting, Business Transformation, Sustainability Management

BSR and the National Association of Corporate Directors are proud to present a primer on ESG for board directors to lay out the fundamental concepts of business and sustainability, discuss the board’s role in providing oversight, and address several key challenges and solutions. This primer is available as an exclusive benefit to NACD and BSR members.

Boards

January 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

In the realm of DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility), an increasingly paramount focus is on challenging and dismantling deeply ingrained systems rooted in colonialism, white supremacy, and racism. This involves the examination of historical and systemic injustices that perpetuated inequality and harmed marginalized communities. 

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

By recognizing systemic inequities within their structures and societies at large, organizations can proactively take steps to implement structural changes that dismantle barriers and foster a culture of equity and fairness.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Businesses assume a pivotal role in promoting equity, justice, and inclusivity. By actively supporting the LGBTIQ+ community, companies can contribute to positive change and protect the rights of their employees and customers.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Inclusive leadership is a powerful approach that transcends traditional notions of diversity and sets the stage for cultivating an exceptional work environment where every individual is recognized, respected, and embraced. BSR shares guidance on cultivating this approach.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) initiatives have become increasingly important in the corporate world. BSR discusses the significant benefits of such initiatives.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Belongingness represents a pinnacle in the evolution of inclusive organizational cultures, where the emphasis extends beyond diversity and inclusion efforts alone. BSR explores what this means in today's business landscape. 

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

In the context of DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessability), the terms accomplice, ally, and advocate represent different levels of engagement and commitment to supporting marginalized groups. BSR explores the nuances.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Ensuring accessibility for individuals with disabilities extends beyond physical spaces and encompasses digital platforms. As organizations navigate evolving regulations and technical requirements, meeting these standards and accommodating diverse accessibility needs can pose significant challenges, requiring attention and strategic implementation.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Leading companies increasingly tie ESG/sustainability KPIs to performance measurement and compensation. BSR discusses ESG performance metrics and their business case, the landscape, and the risk of pushback.

Sustainability Management, Boards, Governance

Explore BSR's presentation on the main human rights issues raised by AI with a particular focus on financial services sector impacts. It highlights key regulatory trends, actions other companies are taking, and high-level recommendations.

Technology, Human Rights, Financial Services

The following worksheet has been compiled based on BSR’s Supplier Code of Conduct Review tool. The best practices listed are compiled based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as leading guidance from the Responsible Business Alliance.

Supply Chain, Human Rights

BSR shares its best practices for setting expectations of suppliers, including guidance for establishing policies, supplier codes of conduct, and supplier contracts. 

Supply Chain

The sustainable product claims space is rapidly evolving, governed by voluntary and mandatory frameworks as well as changes in consumer and retailer awareness and preferences. BSR shares its perspective on navigating sustainability claims.

Sustainability Management

COP28 sends a signal to the world: that the shift to a clean energy economy must and will come. BSR shares key takeaways for companies from the conference.

Climate Change, Nature, Energy and Extractives

Exploring emerging issues through a Futures Wheel exercise can help your organization think through the varied, cascading, and sometimes surprising potential implications if an emerging issue of today were to become mainstream.

Sustainable Futures Lab, Emerging Issues

Explore 2023 polling research and recommendations in response to the ESG backlash in the US, with specific guidance on communications and terminology. This briefing introduces Freedom to Invest, a US campaign led by CERES rallying leaders across the business world to remind policymakers that the economy will be stronger and more resilient if businesses can make their own investment decisions.

ESG

International humanitarian law—which applies in situations of armed conflict and war—creates additional areas of heightened risk for companies operating in such contexts, necessitating a heightened level of due diligence. This short briefer provides an overview of these risks and actions to both prepare for and respond to crisis in a rights-respecting way.

Human Rights

Focusing on considerations related to environmental, social impact, and governance, this brief expands upon the EU’s new rules on corporate sustainability disclosure.

Sustainability Reporting

Challenges, recommendations, and best practices related to human rights abuse and remedy.

Human Rights

October 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

A collection of resources by the founding members of Transform to Net Zero collaborative initiative: Maersk, Danone, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Natura &Co, Nike, Starbucks, Unilever, Wipro and EDF.

Climate Change

ESG, Financial Services

This FAQ sets out BSR’s perspective on generative AI and its implications for ethics and human rights.

Human Rights, Technology

A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.

Human Rights

This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting BSR to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.

Human Rights

Transform to Net Zero created the Supplier Transformation Framework to help companies identify and improve their suppliers’ climate performance.

Climate Change, Supply Chain

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on new laws and regulations relevant for our work. The field of just and sustainable business is entering a new era where actions that have previously been voluntary are becoming mandatory. We believe it is essential that the spirit of the law is achieved as well as its letter, that compliance supports ambitious human rights policies and sustainability goals, and that regulatory requirements are used to help create a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. 

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting

AI is driving change within the extractives sector, potentially leading to major human rights impacts throughout company operations, from geologic risk analysis to workplace management.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

Financial institutions are increasingly using AI technologies, from reducing operational costs to delivering customer service. Yet this evolution may bring human rights risks—as well as opportunities—that companies can’t ignore.

Financial Services, Human Rights

Understanding the foundational and key attributes of establishing and managing a responsible supply chain.

Supply Chain, Technology

June 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic, increased scrutiny of corporations and organizations' internal DEI practices, and civil and financial unrest around the globe, there has been a substantial increase in organizations seeking out guidance on how to build a strong culture of inclusion and belonging.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Unconscious biases, though a normal cognitive process, play a significant role in shaping our decisions and actions without our conscious awareness. These biases are cognitive shortcuts that our brains use to condense vast amounts of information and make quick judgments. However, they can be rewritten through deliberate effort and awareness. It is essential for business leaders to recognize and mitigate these biases as they can have both negative and positive impacts on workplace dynamics and decision-making.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Microaggressions are subtle, often unintentional, verbal or nonverbal slights or behaviors that can have a significant impact on individuals from marginalized or underrepresented groups. Identifying and addressing microaggressions can be challenging, as they can be subtle and rooted in deeply ingrained social dynamics. As business leaders, it is crucial to understand and address microaggressions within the workplace to foster an inclusive and respectful environment that maximizes the potential of all employees.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

The language of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is constantly evolving as society and the business community gain greater understanding of the imperative and overall impact of this topic. Commitment to DEIA work continues to be based on culture, time, region, and deepened understanding of the systemic inequities within internal and external ecosystems. While this is not an exhaustive guide to the language of DEIA, it provides a starting point for understanding the most commonly used terms and concepts.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

In today's dynamic business landscape, it is crucial for organizations to recognize and embrace the concept of intersectionality. Intersectionality acknowledges that individuals may experience discrimination or disadvantages based on a combination of multiple aspects of their identity, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability, at the same time. This multifaceted understanding of identity is essential for creating truly inclusive policies and practices that address the unique challenges faced by diverse employees. Understanding how different aspects of identity intersect and influence experiences can be complex, especially when developing inclusive policies and practices.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Adopting inclusive language and fostering respectful communication has emerged as a critical imperative for organizations committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). However, navigating the complexities of inclusive language can sometimes be a source of confusion and concern for business leaders. They may grapple with the challenge of avoiding inadvertently exclusionary or offensive language while staying abreast of evolving terminologies associated with gender identity, disability, and other facets of diversity.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), also known as Employee Resource Networks or affinity groups, are typically voluntary, employee-led diversity and inclusion initiatives that are supported by an employing organization. ERGs are “organized on the basis of common identities, interests, or backgrounds with the goal of supporting employees by providing opportunities to network and create a more inclusive workplace.” Essentially, an ERG is a collective of employees who share a common identity factor, background, or interest. While many organizations organize their ERGs around traditional demographic factors, such as race, gender identity, or ability, some other growing factors are caregiver status, environmental sustainability interest, career level, and military status. According to current data, 90 percent of all Fortune 500 companies currently utilize ERGs in some form.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

A diversity statement is a concise and intentional description of a company or organization's values, beliefs, and commitments to how they define diversity. It begins with a clear vision of the value of diversity within the organization that includes the “why” diversity matters to the organization, the “who” this statement covers, and the “what” it brings to the organization's policies and practices. It is important that the organization’s commitment to diversity is the anchor point for the statement, regardless of how formal or informal the language used may be.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Harnessing the power of data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is a paramount undertaking for organizations committed to cultivating inclusive and equitable environments. By employing robust data collection, rigorous analysis, and strategic utilization, businesses can navigate the complexities of diversity and inclusion with precision, purpose, and results. Through a comprehensive assessment of both quantitative and qualitative data, organizations gain invaluable insights to identify disparities, measure progress, and make well-informed decisions that drive transformative change.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

How to set issue-specific sustainability goals that are ambitious, achievable, and align with a high-growth or early-stage company’s overall strategy.

Technology, Sustainability Management

Updated, June 2023

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights

How high-growth and early-stage companies can establish and maintain strong oversight of sustainability initiatives that also cut across many different components of the business.

Technology, Governance

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the workplace. We believe that business is one of many actors critical for the creation of a world in which everyone—regardless of identity or background—has the opportunity for equal participation in all aspects of life, has fair access to resources, and can be confident that systems are operating in ways that improve the quality of life for all, and not a select few.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

How high-growth and early-stage companies, newer to sustainability, can better understand complex ESG ratings and identify the ones to prioritize.

Technology, Sustainability Reporting

April 2023: This deck provides exclusive insights for BSR members. It shares our global teams’ perspective on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

This FAQ sets out BSR’s perspective on the governance and oversight of just and sustainable business at companies. We believe that engaged boards, empowered executive leadership, and clear roles and responsibilities throughout companies are essential for the creation of long-term value for investors and society.

Governance, Sustainability Management

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on stakeholder engagement. We believe that meaningful stakeholder engagement is an essential foundation for just and sustainable business and a core element of processes such as decision making, strategy development, materiality assessment, human rights due diligence, and reporting. Without meaningful stakeholder engagement, any approach to just and sustainable business would be constrained by a company’s self-interest and inward focus.

Sustainability Management

Explore human rights issues associated with the increased use of AI technology in the retail sector and recommendations to companies on how they can address the human rights impacts of AI in retail in BSR's new report.

Consumer Products, Human Rights, Technology

A tool that helps companies review their human rights policies, structured around minimum requirements and leading practice.

Human Rights

Explore current trends and innovations in sustainable aviation fuel.

Climate Change, Transport and Logistics

Learn about green hydrogen, from the current state of play to recent trends and innovations.

Climate Change, Transport and Logistics

Electric vehicles continue to develop and replace engine vehicles running on fossil fuels. Explore current trends in the space and future opportunities.

Climate Change, Transport and Logistics

Overview and analysis of the current context and opportunities for carbon capture and storage.

Climate Change, Transport and Logistics

An overview of modern slavery, from emerging frameworks to company involvement through individual corporate and collective action.

Human Rights

Guidance on integrating sustainability management into existing corporate governance and operating model/organizational design.

Governance

A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.

Human Rights

An overview and analysis of current trends in biofuels.

Climate Change, Industrials, Transport and Logistics