An overview of modern slavery, from emerging frameworks to company involvement through individual corporate and collective action.
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Tools
Best Practices: Sustainability Governance
Guidance on integrating sustainability management into existing corporate governance and operating model/organizational design.
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Tools
Human Rights Grievance Mechanism Gap Assessment Tool
A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.
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Tools
Biofuels Primer
Green Technologies
An overview and analysis of current trends in biofuels.
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Human Rights Strategy Development
Guidance on design and implementation of human rights strategies and best practices from companies.
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Human Rights Governance Structures
Guidance on the elements of human rights governance, featuring example structures and company insights.
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Insights+
Amidst ESG Backlash, Companies Should (and Are) Staying the Course on Sustainability
Welcome to the first edition of Insights+, a new series that will provide in-depth analysis of emerging global economic and social issues that are fundamental to your sustainable business strategy. In each issue, we’ll answer questions on critical topics that will help guide your leadership to mitigate risks while creating strategic advantage.
We welcome your feedback. If you have follow-up questions on any of the topics covered, or would like to suggest issues for us to explore in upcoming editions, please feel free to contact us.
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Quarterly Member Reports
Member Insights, 2023 Q1
January 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.
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Reports
Double Materiality for Financial Institutions
Survey Findings and Recommendations
Explore our survey on types of materiality approaches currently in use, periodicity and sources of assessments, and priority ESG issues now and in the future, based on responses from 13 key financial institutions.
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Conflict-Sensitive Human Rights Due Diligence for ICT Companies
Guidelines and Toolkit for Corporate Human Rights Practitioners
This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.
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Sustainability FAQs
Net Zero Targets
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.
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Sustainability FAQs
Materiality and Salience
This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the related concepts of materiality and salience. We believe that implementation of the key concepts described in this FAQ—such as double materiality, impact materiality, and salience—provide the foundation for more resilient business strategies, informed decision making by all stakeholders, and the realization of human rights in practice.
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.