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Blog | Tuesday November 25, 2025

Effective Stakeholder Engagement: Ensuring Internal Company Alignment

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Case Studies | Sunday November 23, 2025

Human Rights Due Diligence in the Financial Sector: A Compendium of Industry Case Studies and Practice

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Financial institutions play a vital role in the global transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy that upholds human rights and ensures that no one is left behind. With influence across industries, they hold unique leverage to promote responsible business conduct across the value chain. 

BSR, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Shift have partnered to publish Human Rights Due Diligence in the Financial Sector: A Compendium of Industry Case Studies and Practice. This publication illustrates how financial actors are implementing human rights due diligence (HRDD) in line with international standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. 

Through six in-depth case studies, the compendium explores how banks, investors, and insurers are embedding HRDD into their governance frameworks, operational processes, and financing activities. It focuses on the downstream value chain—that is, how financial institutions identify, assess, and address actual and potential adverse human rights impacts associated with their corporate clients, portfolio companies, and asset managers. While human rights issues can also arise within institutions’ own operations or supply chains, the most significant impacts typically occur through these downstream relationships. 

The case studies include: 

• ING: Getting human rights risk right through on-the-ground, in-depth assessment 
• SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge: Advancing human rights in corporate lending 
• AP6: Catalyzing respect for human rights in private capital markets 
• AP Pension: Revisiting human rights due diligence governance under new EU sustainable finance regulation 
• NN Group: Embedding sustainability into insurance through policy, engagement, and pragmatic leverage 
• Permira: A human rights journey in private equity 

Together, these examples provide a snapshot of emerging good practices and ongoing efforts to translate human rights commitments into concrete action. The compendium aims to inspire peer learning and accelerate progress across the financial sector toward integrating human rights considerations throughout the downstream value chain. 

Blog | Wednesday November 19, 2025

From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit

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Anna Follér

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Haley St. Dennis

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Reports | Thursday November 6, 2025

Business Action for Climate Adaptation: Ensuring Co-Benefits for Communities

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Since 2000, climate-related disasters have caused over US$3.6 trillion in global economic losses, with costs rising as extreme weather becomes more frequent and intense. Such climate impacts threaten business’ financial performance, continuity, and the communities that companies rely on, who face lost livelihoods, increased illness, disrupted essential services, and displacement. Among them, children and youth, women, and migrant workers bear the heaviest burden while being critical to business resilience through their current and future roles in the workforce, supply chains, and markets.

However, ongoing levels of adaptation finance and private sector action remain insufficient to protect long-term business value and operational resilience. To help companies respond to the converging challenges of climate change and community vulnerability, UNICEF and BSR have developed a suite of complementary tools that guide companies from understanding and committing to adaptation, to engaging effectively with policymakers, to collaborating with peers and partners to scale impact. They offer a clear pathway to accelerate investment in climate adaptation with co-benefits for communities, including children.

The tools are:

• The Imperative for Business Action on Climate Adaptation, Ensuring Co-Benefits for Communities: Understand how to make a compelling case for adaptation with co-benefits for communities, including children, within companies.
• 8 Key Elements to Accelerate Climate Adaptation with Co-Benefits for Communities: Discover core components of corporate adaptation plans that can help create shared value for business and communities.
• Strengthening Corporate Engagement with Policymakers on Community-Centered Adaptation: Learn how and why companies can engage with policymakers on Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans, and access 10 policy asks that companies can tailor to national and sectoral contexts.

Interested in strengthening your company’s climate adaptation plans? Reach out to BSR’s Climate and Nature team.

Reports | Tuesday November 4, 2025

Decarbonization Lever Library: Mapped Sectoral Transition Pathways

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Unless the world acts now to curb emissions, climate change’s impacts, including heatwaves, flooding, and wildfires, will become even more intense, with severe risks to business.​

As business faces substantial compliance burden and costs to cut emissions, as well as calls from critical stakeholders for increased action to reach net zero, companies who do not take credible and legitimate action will increasingly be left behind as the effects of climate change accelerate. At the same time, new technologies and systems that will exist in a transitionary world will present opportunities for those businesses that take proactive action.

To help companies reduce emissions, understand the climate transition landscape, and achieve their climate goals, BSR is launching its Decarbonization Lever Library. Using this resource, companies will be able to pinpoint the origin of their emissions across Scopes 1-3, connect each source with the most effective decarbonization solutions, and identify practical steps to take now to capture future transition opportunities.

With data on cost ranges, abatement potential, and enabling conditions, companies can use the Library to design investment roadmaps that can deliver near-term emissions reductions while laying the foundation for deeper, longer-term decarbonization.

If you’re interested in developing a climate transition plan, please reach out to BSR’s Climate and Nature team.

Reports | Friday October 31, 2025

Stay the Course: Advancing Integrated Transition Plans

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Climate Transition Plans (CTPs) are becoming increasingly essential in guiding companies from commitments to concrete action, as various climate disclosure standards converge and investor scrutiny of CTPs intensifies. While some companies face political headwinds and stakeholder backlash as they try to address climate change, many are advancing rapidly.

BSR’s new report builds on our earlier publication, Charting the Course: Navigating the Climate Transition Plan Landscape, providing an updated view of key developments in 2025:

• evolution of the CTP landscape;
• stakeholders' expectations;
• perspectives on how the future of CTPs may unfold, moving toward approaches that integrate climate, nature, and human rights

With this report, companies will better understand the importance of having a credible CTP when combatting climate change and its impacts.

If your company is interested in CTP implementation and disclosure, please reach out to BSR’s Climate and Nature team.

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Anne Marie Jaminet

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As part of the Financial Services team, Anne Marie works with BSR member companies to advance sustainability management and impact investment initiatives. 

Prior to joining BSR, Anne Marie was a fellow at impact investment fund, Etho Capital, where she developed methodologies for emissions accounting and conducted ESG screenings. She also worked as an environmental engineering researcher at Stanford University, analyzing cost-emissions tradeoffs for water utilities.

Anne Marie holds a BS in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from EPFL and an MS in Environmental Engineering from ETH Zurich. She is fluent in English, Italian, and French.

Blog | Wednesday October 29, 2025

How Stronger Just Transition Policies Can Enable Business Action

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