Tools

Future of Reporting 2025 Highlights Report: Ten Key Takeaways in a Year of Turbulence

BSR’s Future of Reporting (FoR) collaborative initiative shares ten key themes and perspectives emerging from a year-long series of conversations and engagements within its community in 2025 on sustainability reporting.

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Community Engagement: A Cornerstone of Effective Stakeholder Engagement

BSR explores international standards governing company responsibilities to community members, the business value of community engagement, and practical tips for conducting it.

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Effective Stakeholder Engagement: Ensuring Internal Company Alignment

BSR shares key actions to ensure internal alignment ahead of stakeholder engagement: establishing an overarching vision, identifying internal ownership, shifting from ad hoc to ongoing engagement, and balancing transparency and legal risk.

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How Stronger Just Transition Policies Can Enable Business Action

In the shift toward a net-zero economy, advancing a just transition is both a social and business imperative. BSR and We Mean Business outline 12 policy asks to guide business engagement on the just transition and drive investment in equitable transformation.

Reports

Advancing People-Centered Climate Action in Private Capital Markets

BSR has launched the People-Centered Climate Action in Private Markets (PCAP) initiative, alongside a suite of practical tools and resources, to help investors align climate strategies with human rights and advance a just transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy through the mobilization of private capital.

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BSR COP30 Insights

At COP30, governments and businesses showed continued commitment to climate action, yet the gap between ambition and implementation is widening. Explore the major themes from Belém and what they signal for companies and their role in implementing actionable pathways that enhance competitiveness and strengthen resilience. 

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

To help companies respond to climate change and community vulnerability, UNICEF and BSR have developed a suite of complementary tools that guide companies on understanding and committing to adaptation, engaging effectively with policymakers, and collaborating with peers and partners to scale impact. 

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Decarbonization Lever Library: Mapped Sectoral Transition Pathways

With BSR's Decarbonization Lever Library, 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.

Reports

Advancing People-Centered Climate Action in Private Capital Markets

BSR has launched the People-Centered Climate Action in Private Markets (PCAP) initiative, alongside a suite of practical tools and resources, to help investors align climate strategies with human rights and advance a just transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy through the mobilization of private capital.

Case Studies

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

BSR, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Shift Project published six case studies that illustrate how financial institutions are embedding human rights due diligence into their downstream operations and value chain.

Reports

Decarbonization Lever Library: Mapped Sectoral Transition Pathways

With BSR's Decarbonization Lever Library, 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.

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Reproductive and LGBTIQ+ Health Access

Emerging Risks and Responsibilities

Access to reproductive and LGBTIQ+ healthcare is becoming increasingly fragmented across the United States. This report offers practical guidance to companies in various sectors on protecting their workforce, preparing for future impacts, and advancing meaningful solutions.

Reports

Advancing People-Centered Climate Action in Private Capital Markets

BSR has launched the People-Centered Climate Action in Private Markets (PCAP) initiative, alongside a suite of practical tools and resources, to help investors align climate strategies with human rights and advance a just transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy through the mobilization of private capital.

Blog

Community Engagement: A Cornerstone of Effective Stakeholder Engagement

BSR explores international standards governing company responsibilities to community members, the business value of community engagement, and practical tips for conducting it.

Blog

Effective Stakeholder Engagement: Ensuring Internal Company Alignment

BSR shares key actions to ensure internal alignment ahead of stakeholder engagement: establishing an overarching vision, identifying internal ownership, shifting from ad hoc to ongoing engagement, and balancing transparency and legal risk.

Case Studies

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

BSR, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Shift Project published six case studies that illustrate how financial institutions are embedding human rights due diligence into their downstream operations and value chain.

Tools

Overview of AI and Environmental Impacts

As AI adoption accelerates across sectors, its environmental footprint, from energy and water use to land and materials impacts, is becoming a strategic concern. Yet these impacts remain difficult to quantify due to rapidly evolving hardware, software, and infrastructure systems. This resource equips members with a clear view of AI’s environmental risks and highlights leading practices shaping more responsible AI development and deployment.

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

BSR shares takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit, where participants discussed how innovative technology, increasingly driven by AI, can be a powerful enabler to fight modern slavery when responsibly and carefully designed and deployed. 

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The CSDDD: Implications for the Tech Sector

The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will impose new due diligence requirements on large companies operating in the EU. BSR shares human rights risks most relevant to tech companies and outlines practical steps they can take now to prepare. 

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Harnessing AI in Sustainability: Emerging Use Cases

BSR interviewed representatives from 20 corporate sustainability teams to explore how AI is reshaping their work. This report highlights current use cases, challenges, and adoption drivers, along with key considerations for CSOs navigating this transformation.