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.
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BSR Member Brief: Humanitarian Crisis in Azerbaijan
Supporting a rights-respecting response by business
This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting BSR to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.
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Supplier Transformation Framework
Transform to Net Zero Transformation Guides
Transform to Net Zero created the Supplier Transformation Framework to help companies identify and improve their suppliers’ climate performance.
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Sustainability FAQs
Laws and Regulations for Just and Sustainable Business
This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on new laws and regulations relevant for our work. The field of just and sustainable business is entering a new era where actions that have previously been voluntary are becoming mandatory. We believe it is essential that the spirit of the law is achieved as well as its letter, that compliance supports ambitious human rights policies and sustainability goals, and that regulatory requirements are used to help create a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet.
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AI and Human Rights in Extractives
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.
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AI and Human Rights in Financial Services
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.
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Procurement and Supply Chain Best Practices
High-Growth and Early-Stage Companies and Sustainability
Understanding the foundational and key attributes of establishing and managing a responsible supply chain.
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Quarterly Member Reports
Member Insights, 2023 Q3
June 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.
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Goal-Setting Best Practices
High-Growth and Early-Stage Companies and Sustainability
How to set issue-specific sustainability goals that are ambitious, achievable, and align with a high-growth or early-stage company’s overall strategy.
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An Overview of Sustainability Governance and Board Engagement
High-Growth and Early-Stage Companies and Sustainability
How high-growth and early-stage companies can establish and maintain strong oversight of sustainability initiatives that also cut across many different components of the business.
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ESG Ratings Overview
High-Growth and Early-Stage Companies and Sustainability
How high-growth and early-stage companies, newer to sustainability, can better understand complex ESG ratings and identify the ones to prioritize.
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Quarterly Member Reports
Member Insights, 2023 Q2
April 2023: This deck provides exclusive insights for BSR members. It shares our global teams’ perspective on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.
Please Note: These are proprietary document(s) developed by BSR and is considered confidential information for exclusive use by BSR members, not to be disclosed externally to third parties. In developing this tool, BSR has relied on publicly available information and standards, BSR proprietary methodologies, and learnings from project assignments. The document(s) does not constitute and cannot be relied upon as legal advice of any sort and cannot be considered an exhaustive review of legal or regulatory compliance. The views expressed in this document do not reflect those of BSR members.