Reports
Sustainability Management
Five Steps to Good Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability reporting and disclosure on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is increasing globally. BSR's new report provides guidance on producing a good sustainability report based on several prominent reporting standards and frameworks.
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Climate Change
Climate Action in the Value Chain: Reducing Scope 3 Emissions and Achieving Science-Based Targets
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.
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Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain
Gender Equality and Social Audits e-Learning
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.
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Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain, Human Rights
Making Women Workers Count
A Framework for Conducting Gender Responsive Due Diligence in Supply Chains
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Sustainability Management, Financial Services, ESG
Key Considerations in Managing ESG through a Merger
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.
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Supply Chain
The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0
BSR Maturity Model for Supply Chain Sustainability
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.
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Sustainability Management
Five-Step Approach to Stakeholder Engagement
This report provides a comprehensive stakeholder engagement approach and toolkit that will help your company build and retain stakeholder trust in the long term.
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Financial Services, ESG
ESG in Private Equity: How To Write a Responsible Investment Policy
A guide for private equity firms on the adoption of more effective responsible investment approaches and ESG management practices at firms and their portfolio companies.
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.
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Climate Change, Energy and Extractives
Climate and the Just Transition
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.
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Human Rights, Climate Change
Climate and Human Rights
This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.
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Women’s Empowerment, Climate Change
Climate and Women
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.
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Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain
Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance
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Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Climate Change
Climate and Inclusive Economy
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.
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Healthcare, Climate Change
Climate and Health
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.
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Supply Chain, Climate Change
Climate and Supply Chain
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.
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