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Climate Nexus Reports

The Business Case for Action

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.

Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business

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.

Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity

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.

Women in the Jewelry Supply Chain: Landscape Review of Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment

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

New Models for Sustainable Procurement

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

Women’s Safety in the Workplace Toolkit Guide

This is an introduction to a new toolkit that provides guidance for companies seeking to strengthen their policies and activities that prevent and address sexual harassment.

Empowering Female Workers in the Apparel Industry: Three Areas for Business Action

This business brief proposes three areas where apparel companies can build from a strong foundation to better drive improvements in outcomes for women workers and promote women’s economic empowerment around the world.

Gender Equality in Codes of Conduct Guidance

This Guidance—developed in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINBUZA) and the Evidence Project/Meridian Group International, Inc.—offers a gender-sensitive analysis of codes of conduct principles and makes recommendations for companies to promote gender equality in the workplace.

Automation: A Framework for a Sustainable Transition

This report helps companies navigate the business and social implications of automation and outlines how companies can prepare the workforce for the inevitable changes to come.