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In recent years, society’s expectations for the biopharmaceutical industry to advance the right to health has broadened. Gathered from BSR’s direct engagement with pharma companies, we share the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the healthcare sector.

Healthcare, Human Rights

The only way for companies to achieve ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets is to go beyond direct company operations and tackle value chain (Scope 3) emissions.

Climate Change

The BSR tool guides companies through human rights due diligence in situations when very little time is available. The tool also makes specific reference to the Siracusa Principles, adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council in 1984, which describe limitations on the restriction on human rights that governments may apply for reasons of public health or national emergency.

Human Rights

To support social auditors, companies and a broader spectrum of social compliance regulatory organizations, BSR has developed a Gender Equality and Social Audits e-Learning course. The interactive course, consisting of three parts, covers key gender concepts, the business case for addressing gender in social audits, and considerations for tips for ensuring a gender-sensitive approach throughout an audit process.

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain, Human Rights

As business leaders across industries pursue M&A activity, there will be substantial ESG opportunities and risks for the companies involved: opportunities to create more ambitious and resilient sustainability strategies, accompanied by risks that ESG objectives will be sidelined by overwhelming pressures to create short-term value.

Sustainability Management, Financial Services, ESG

The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0 incorporates learnings from our work with companies where we use the framework to identify their level of maturity and ambition, benchmark their practices against their peers, and develop concrete action plans to improve.

Supply Chain

This report provides a comprehensive stakeholder engagement approach and toolkit that will help your company build and retain stakeholder trust in the long term.

Sustainability Management

Over the past 10 years, the private equity sector has seen responsible investment approaches move from exception to expectation. Formalized integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations is becoming the norm. For all firms, a meaningful policy is fundamental to responsible investment and ESG integration.

Financial Services, ESG

The just transition is an economy-wide process that produces the plans, policies, and investments that build resilient economies and communities with green and decent jobs, and this report explores the role business can play in making it a reality.

Climate Change, Energy and Extractives

This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.

Human Rights, Climate Change

This paper explores the connection between women’s empowerment and resilience to climate change and aims to drive corporate action to put women at the center of climate solutions.

Women’s Empowerment, Climate Change

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain

Climate change and the economy are inextricably linked. This report highlights how companies across sectors can better understand how they can contribute to more climate-resilient and inclusive economies.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Climate Change

Climate change will impact the health of humans around the world. This paper explores the intersection of climate and public health issues and highlights the business case for action.

Healthcare, Climate Change

This report explores how businesses can enhance their resilience to the impacts of climate change on their supply chains and improve their supply chain management in the process.

Supply Chain, Climate Change

To help businesses explore the interaction between climate and these areas, and to direct companies to opportunities for synergy and interventions that will build climate resilience, BSR is launching a series of reports on the “nexus” between climate resilience and other key sustainability issues: supply chain, health, inclusive economy, women, human rights, and just transition.

Climate Change

Artificial intelligence (AI)—and the big data business models underpinning it—is disrupting how we live, work, do business, and govern. We have published three papers describing a human rights-based blueprint for responsible business practice with regard to AI, both within and beyond the technology sector.

Technology, Sustainability Management, Human Rights

This report seeks to demystify the US$6 billion revenue opportunity for financial service providers to integrate sustainability considerations into supply chain finance, allowing buyers, suppliers, and financial service providers to create mechanisms that reward and incentivize sustainable behavior in supply chains.

Supply Chain, Financial Services

This white paper explores the role of women in the jewelry supply chain and the challenges they face to their well-being and advancement.

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain, Consumer Products

This paper explores recent developments and best practices in supply chain transparency, supplier engagement, and responses to shifts in trade and globalization.

Supply Chain

The extractives sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for companies operating in this sector. 

Human Rights, Energy and Extractives

Explore forces of change that will reshape supply chains from today to 2025 and recommendations for how companies can develop their supply chains to be fit for the future.

Supply Chain

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

Learn about the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the power and utilities sector, as well as opportunities that companies can take to make positive impact.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

The financial sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for financial services companies. 

Human Rights, Financial Services