Business Transformation | Sustainability Management | Sustainability Reporting | Human Rights | Climate Change
Why 2024 Could Be a Pivotal Year for Sustainability in the UK
With economic growth likely to be a key issue in the UK's next general election, leaders based in or with operations in the UK can take the lead in making the business case for sustainability.
Human Rights | Financial Services | Supply Chain
Twenty Years of Implementing Living Wage
BSR has been a driving force behind the Living Wage movement for the past 20 years. Explore trends behind the movement and what business needs to know.
Business Transformation | Emerging Issues | Supply Chain | Sustainability Management | Sustainability Reporting | Collaboration
Five Ways Companies Can Help Smallholders and SMEs Prepare for Upcoming Regulations
BSR’s Supply Chain Sustainability team shares five recommendations for businesses to enable incoming regulation to support transformation, with SMEs at the heart of resilient supply chains.
Business Transformation | Emerging Issues | Governance
Business Leadership Amidst 2024 Elections Around the Globe
Explore key takeaways from a recent roundtable on “Business Leadership Amidst the 2024 Elections Around the Globe,” hosted by BSR and Kite Insights.
Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
It’s Time for DEI to Evolve, Not Dissolve
BSR Director, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice MaryAnne Howland shares some common mischaracterizations of DEI work and discusses three ways companies can center this work in their business strategies.
Consumer Products | Industrials | Closing the Gender Gap | Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment
RISE: A Reflection on Women’s Advancement Beyond Supervisory Roles in the Garment Industry
RISE spoke with women workers in Bangladesh and India to gather their perspectives on how they define career advancement and the barriers that prevent taking on supervisory positions.
Human Rights | Closing the Gender Gap | Supply Chain | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Closing the Gender Gap: Addressing Wage Inequality
Companies can support women workers in industries like textiles and agriculture by applying a gender lens to their living wage approaches.
Business Transformation | Governance | Sustainability Reporting
Demystifying Social KPIs under CSRD: Six Recommendations for Business
Explore our roadmap for business on how to identify meaningful social KPIs and targets covering the entire value chain for companies in the EU.
Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Closing the Gender Gap
A Foundational Guide for Business on Social Justice for 2024 and Beyond
The Center for Business & Social Justice is officially launching the Social Justice Guide for Business: Moving Beyond Crisis to Action for meaningful engagement on social justice issues. The interaction between business and social justice is evolving, and this guidance serves as the basis to spark dialogue and collaboration with urgency and purpose.
Collaboration
Collaborating to Advance the SDGs: Three Considerations for Business Leaders
Business-led multi-stakeholder collaborations play a key role in advancing the SDGs. Drawing on BSR’s extensive collaboration expertise and a partnership with Sida, learn practical examples from our work on SDGs.
Human Rights | Energy and Extractives | Transport and Logistics | Industrials
Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Corporate Risk Registers
To ensure that risk registers effectively measure human rights risks, BSR has outlined three approaches and opportunties for business.
Business Transformation | Consumer Products | Food, Beverage, and Agriculture | Supply Chain | Closing the Gender Gap
Investing in Women Workers: How Training has Helped Build Financial Resilience in Shea Supply Chains
For companies looking to improve outcomes for workers in agricultural supply chains, explore key takeaways from a pilot program developed for women in Northern Ghana’s shea supply chains by BSR, the Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, and partners.
Business Transformation | Emerging Issues | Governance
2024’s Elections: A Defining Test for Business Leadership
With more than half the world’s voting population heading to the polls in learn more on the growing threats to democracy, the barriers to fair elections, and how business and business leaders can adapt to a world where a sense of economic precarity is fueling fear-based politics.
Climate Change
China’s Climate Commitment and its Impact on Scope 3 Targets
China’s national climate commitment aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and an emissions peak by 2030. What are the implications of these climate policies, specifically for global companies with substantial manufacturing operations in China?
Business Transformation | Climate Change | Nature
The Sustainability Leader Checklist for 2024
BSR offers advice for Chief Sustainability Officers taking a concentric circles approach to the myriad of tensions and complexities in 2024.