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BSR's COP29 delegation shares an overview of COP29's main outcomes and implications for business.

Climate Change

Outcomes from both COP16 official negotiations as well as non-state actor convenings have implications for business. This summary provides a high-level overview of the issues and topics most relevant to business.

Climate Change, Nature

To assist members in preparing for COP29 both strategically and logistically, BSR has compiled the latest information and provided insights and perspectives in this deck.

Climate Change, Financial Services

This primer provides an overview of carbon pricing, including different approaches and types of pricing, implementation mechanisms, pros and cons, trends, and examples.

Climate Change

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

In the United States, electoral uncertainty, threats to democracy, and the potential for instability and chaos are notably apparent as the country faces an enormously consequential election this fall. What are the risks for sustainable business, and what proactive steps can business leaders take to mitigate them?

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Emerging Issues, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Financial Services, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Nature, Technology

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

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, Sustainable Futures Lab, Emerging Issues

Learn about the implications of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and what this means for business leaders going forward.

Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights, Sustainable Futures Lab, Climate Change, Sustainability Management, Supply Chain, CSDDD

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

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the sixth edition of Insights+, the Human Rights, Climate, and Technology teams set out the latest developments in upcoming regulations, discuss the implications for how AI is utilized in business across industries, and spotlight key emerging issues.

Human Rights, Technology, Climate Change

Via a co-creation process in business activities related to climate action, companies can enable more effective climate solutions that address interconnected, systemic issues.

Climate Change, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

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

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the fifth edition of Insights+, the Climate Change team dives into the biggest topics at COP28: fossil fuel phase-out and the just transition, accountability for business commitments, the role of nature in achieving climate goals, and climate justice. Explore key recommendations for business leaders on how they can take action on these topics and what might be around the corner.

Climate Change, Nature

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

For companies designing and implementing a just, equitable and inclusive approach to net zero, the process is complex and requires difficult trade-offs. This guidance offers practical steps to help companies formulate a just transition plan.

Climate Change, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

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

Climate Change, Supply Chain

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 and analysis of current trends in biofuels.

Climate Change, Industrials, Transport and Logistics

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on net zero targets. We believe that setting science-based net-zero targets—and more importantly, taking ambitious action to achieve these targets—is core to the role that companies should play in helping achieve the Paris Agreement’s stretch target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

Climate Change

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the relationship between climate change and people. 

Climate Change, Human Rights

Transform to Net Zero sets out eleven key elements of a model Climate Transition Action Plan, with real-world approaches from Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Natura &Co., Nike, and Unilever.

Climate Change

In this guide, Environmental Defense Fund, Microsoft and Unilever outline how companies can advocate for public policies which promote net zero transformation.

Climate Change, Governance

In this guide, three Transform to Net Zero founding members, Starbucks, Unilever and Wipro, share their approaches to integrating climate justice into their business transformation.

Climate Change, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

This paper, prepared by the Dairy Subgroup of Transform to Net Zero, presents strategies for how companies across the livestock supply chain can meet methane reduction targets by accelerating the use of existing manure management technologies.

Climate Change, Food, Beverage, and Agriculture

In this guide, three Transform to Net Zero founding members, Nike, Unilever and Wipro, share their approaches to developing products and services that convert their ambitious net zero commitments into actions to benefit their customers.

Climate Change

In this guide, three Transform to Net Zero founding members—Danone, Wipro and EDF—share their approach to navigating the net zero goal setting process and setting net zero ambition that translates into meaningful business transformation.

Climate Change

This report explores the intersection between climate and human rights and makes recommendations on taking first steps to create long-term, resilient business strategies that address human rights impacts related to physical climate impacts as well as the transition to a low carbon economy.

Human Rights, Climate Change

In this Guide, three Transform to Net Zero founding members, Unilever, Nike, and Microsoft, all of whom included Scope 3 reduction in their net zero commitments, share their approach of engaging suppliers to bring them along in the decarbonization journey.

Climate Change, Supply Chain

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 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.

Climate Change

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