Reports

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Financial Services | ESG

ESG in Private Equity: How To Write a Responsible Investment Policy

Over the past 10 years, the private equity sector has seen responsible investment approaches move from exception to expectation. Formalized integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations is becoming the norm. For all firms, a meaningful policy is fundamental to responsible investment and ESG integration.

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Sustainability Management | Collaboration

Five Reporting Trends for 2019: Insights on the Future of Reporting

Here are the five innovations that BSR's Future of Reporting collaborative initiative would like to see improve reporting and disclosure in 2019.

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Climate Change | Energy and Extractives

Climate and the Just Transition

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.

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Human Rights | Climate Change

Climate and Human Rights

This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.

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Sustainable Futures Lab

Doing Business in 2030

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Women’s Empowerment | Climate Change

Climate and Women

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.

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Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain

Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance

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Sustainability Management

State of Sustainable Business 2018

[Infographic] The 10th Annual BSR/Globescan State of Sustainable Business survey reveals what sustainability issues and global mega-trends business leaders are most focused on.

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Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change

Climate and Inclusive Economy

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.

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Healthcare | Climate Change

Climate and Health

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.

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Supply Chain | Climate Change

Climate and Supply Chain

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.

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Climate Change

Climate Nexus Reports

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.

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Climate Change

Building Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

This report offers a framework for private-sector action on building resilience to climate change in Southeast Asia.

Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business thumnail image
Technology | Sustainability Management | Human Rights

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.