Reports

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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.

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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.

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Sustainability Management

The Future of Sustainable Business

The time is here for a new approach to sustainable business. Business as usual won’t get the job done—and sustainability as usual won’t suffice. This paper offers our thinking on where to go next.

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Transport and Logistics | Supply Chain

Clean Cargo Emissions Factors 2018 Report

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Consumer Products

What Can Business Do to Prevent Plastic from Becoming Waste in Asia Pacific?

This report provides a primer on plastic waste and recycling in Asia Pacific and offers recommendations for business action on plastic waste.

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Sustainability Management | Consumer Products

Disrupting Luxury: Creating Resilient Businesses in Times of Rapid Change

This report offers a roadmap toward a resilient luxury sector and highlights three opportunities for luxury companies to invest in future success.

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Climate Change

Resilient Business, Resilient World: A Framework for Private-Sector Leadership on Climate Adaptation

This report assesses and consolidates the best available knowledge to present an accessible and actionable framework for private-sector leadership on climate change resilience.

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Supply Chain | Financial Services

Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity

This report seeks to demystify the US$6 billion revenue opportunity for financial service providers to integrate sustainability considerations into supply chain finance, allowing buyers, suppliers, and financial service providers to create mechanisms that reward and incentivize sustainable behavior in supply chains.

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Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain | Consumer Products

Women in the Jewelry Supply Chain: Landscape Review of Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment

This white paper explores the role of women in the jewelry supply chain and the challenges they face to their well-being and advancement.

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Women’s Empowerment | Financial Services | Consumer Products

Financial Needs of Garment Workers in India

This report examines the opportunity to expand financial inclusion for women in India’s garment sector by increasing women’s access to and use of mobile financial products and services.

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Collaboration

Private-Sector Collaboration for Sustainable Development

This report, published in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, identifies the key success factors of collaboration for sustainable development and provides guidance to business leaders on preparing for participation in impactful collaborations.

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Supply Chain

New Models for Sustainable Procurement

This paper explores recent developments and best practices in supply chain transparency, supplier engagement, and responses to shifts in trade and globalization.