Reports

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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.

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A Practitioner’s View of Sustainability Reporting: Challenges and Solutions

This briefing document offers insights about the future of sustainability reporting from those who are closest to it.

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Sustainability Management

Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World

This report provides a guide for sustainability practitioners to create resilient business strategies, governance, and management so that their companies are fit for a disruptive world.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder

This working paper introduces the Supply Chain Leadership Ladder, a maturity model for supply chain sustainability programs, which companies can use to develop their program toward deeper impact.

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Consumer Products

Responsible Luxury Initiative: Animal Sourcing Principles

This document sets out the general principles according to which all animals, both farmed and wild- caught, in our supply chains should be treated. The principles have been developed to take into account the diversity of animal products we source as well as the different regulatory environments in which animals are caught, maintained, bred, raised, transported, handled, and slaughtered.