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As AI adoption accelerates across sectors, its environmental footprint, from energy and water use to land and materials impacts, is becoming a strategic concern. Yet these impacts remain difficult to quantify due to rapidly evolving hardware, software, and infrastructure systems. This resource equips members with a clear view of AI’s environmental risks and highlights leading practices shaping more responsible AI development and deployment.

This Human Rights Assessment shares how decisions made across the generative AI value chain can impact human rights. The report also includes practitioner guides on incorporating a human rights-based approach for people working on responsible AI.

In 2023, UNICEF engaged BSR to explore current CRIA trends and develop a tool that companies can use to systematically identify, assess, and address their impacts on children. This report shares key findings from that research.

With an increasing shift from voluntary to mandatory human rights due diligence, leaders are questioning the implications for their business: What are the risks associated with forced labor in supply chains, which sectors are most affected by forced labor risks, and how can businesses engage with suppliers to mitigate these risks?

Emerging Issues, Human Rights, Responsible Technology

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, Emerging Issues, Inclusive Business, Financial Services, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Responsible Technology

BSR’s new guide, funded by the Omidyar Network, is a practical resource for anyone seeking to engage with global technology companies on digital rights issues related to the development, deployment, and use of their products and services.

Responsible Technology, Human Rights

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, Responsible Technology

BSR's human rights impact assessment of the Lantern Program identifies and prioritizes human rights impacts and provides recommendations for action to address these impacts.

Human Rights, Responsible Technology

This report identifies human rights issues associated with the growing importance of AI technology in healthcare and provides recommendations to companies on addressing these impacts.

Human Rights, Responsible Technology, Healthcare

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

Human Rights, Responsible Technology

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

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, Responsible Technology

This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.

Human Rights, Responsible Technology

SaaS services address numerous business needs, and they are behind many of the consumer-facing products and platforms we use every day. This report identifies salient human rights risks and makes recommendations to SaaS providers on how to avoid, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights impacts associated with their individual services and the sector as a whole.

Responsible Technology, Human Rights

According to many ethical and human rights frameworks, software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies have a responsibility to address adverse impacts that may be associated with their business relationships and use of their products and services.

Responsible Technology, Human Rights

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

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.

Responsible Technology, Human Rights