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Technology | Supply Chain | Human Rights

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Today, we are publishing three papers describing a potential blueprint for responsible business practice with regard to artificial intelligence (AI) both within and beyond the technology sector.
The Business Case for Building Climate Resilience into Your Supply Chain thumnail image
Supply Chain | Climate Change

The Business Case for Building Climate Resilience into Your Supply Chain

A resilient business is one that is able to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, and rapidly recover from climate events in its own operations and throughout its value chain. There is a strong business case for incorporating climate resilience into your supply chain.
Is This the Beginning of the End for Impunity? thumnail image
Supply Chain

Is This the Beginning of the End for Impunity?

Impunity is a daily issue in the lives of many who work in governance, risk, and compliance, but the structures supporting impunity in both public institutions and private organizations seem to be growing less reliable.
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Energy and Extractives | Climate Change

Steps to Create Your Company’s Renewable Energy Strategy

To create your renewable energy strategy, you must identify your company’s motivations, adopt supporting goals and commitments, and identify available internal resources.
How Do We Solve the Plastic Waste Puzzle? thumnail image
Supply Chain | Food, Beverage, and Agriculture

How Do We Solve the Plastic Waste Puzzle?

There are six feasible and realistic actions that businesses, particularly in Asia Pacific, can take to help prevent plastic from becoming waste.
How to Implement the TCFD Recommendations to Enhance Your Company’s Resilience thumnail image
Climate Change

How to Implement the TCFD Recommendations to Enhance Your Company’s Resilience

Businesses should approach TCFD recommendation implementation not merely as a disclosure exercise, but as an important opportunity to enhance their strategic resilience.
How Luxury Can Lead the Future of Sustainable Business thumnail image
Supply Chain | Consumer Products

How Luxury Can Lead the Future of Sustainable Business

The luxury sector is being disrupted. What is the role of luxury to help drive environmental and social progress?
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Women’s Empowerment

Join Us to Empower 1.6 Million Women Workers through HERproject by 2022

We are proud to launch a new strategy for HERproject to double our impact and improve the well-being, confidence, and economic potential of women working in global supply chains.
Global Climate Action Summit Update—Will We See You There? thumnail image
Climate Change

Global Climate Action Summit Update—Will We See You There?

We hope you join us in San Francisco this September, as our collective efforts must lead to a turning point by 2020 in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change.
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Transport and Logistics | Climate Change

Three Climate Commitments for the Railway Sector

Transportation is one of the few sectors where greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. Here's how the railway sector can help reverse that.
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Women’s Empowerment

Making Data Work for Women

BSR is proud to lead a major new initiative to develop a gender data framework for global supply chains.
How to Prevent Your Sustainability Collaboration from Failing thumnail image
Collaboration

How to Prevent Your Sustainability Collaboration from Failing

Learning from both the failures and successes helps to ensure that future collaborations do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Here are our recommendations for addressing them.
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Human Rights

Building Responsibly Announces Worker Welfare Principles

Building Responsibly has developed a set of Worker Welfare Principles that establish a common, global baseline for the treatment of workers in the engineering and construction industry.
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Technology | Human Rights

Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking

A coalition of global technology companies, civil society organizations, and the UN have come together to launch “Tech Against Trafficking,” a collaborative effort to further support the eradication of forced labor and human trafficking.
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Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain

Sustainability Standards Driving Impact for Women in Global Supply Chains

Here's how multistakeholder initiatives and sustainability standards organizations can further invest in progress on gender issues.