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Beyond Women on Boards: How Gender Lens Investing Can Transform Your Impact Strategy thumnail image
Financial Services | Women’s Empowerment

Beyond Women on Boards: How Gender Lens Investing Can Transform Your Impact Strategy

More impact investors are slowly aligning their strategies to the push for greater gender equality and women’s empowerment. However, understanding on how to unlock the power of capital to support these commitments remains limited. Gender lens investing is a powerful new approach with the potential to change that.

Sustainable Business in Asia: Five Trends That Will Impact the Decisive Decade thumnail image
Supply Chain | Sustainability Management

Sustainable Business in Asia: Five Trends That Will Impact the Decisive Decade

Through BSR’s work across Asia, including significant stakeholder engagement across the region, we have identified the following five sustainability trends for business in Asia in the 2020s that will impact sourcing strategies and supply chains, access to finance, employee engagement, sustainability leadership, and increasingly market and consumer engagement.

Purchasing Power: The Opportunity for Women’s Advancement in Procurement and Global Supply Chains thumnail image
Human Rights | Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment

Purchasing Power: The Opportunity for Women’s Advancement in Procurement and Global Supply Chains

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a framework guiding business on how to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace, and community. However, despite considerable advancements, we are still decades away from achieving gender parity.

Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Innovative Approaches for the Technology Sector thumnail image
Human Rights | Technology

Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Innovative Approaches for the Technology Sector

This blog is the second in a series of two about human rights assessments in the technology industry. While the previous blog described challenges related to these assessments, this blog proposes solutions.

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Human Rights | Technology

Accelerating Toward Data Insights

In the first Tech Against Trafficking Accelerator, CTDC partnered with Tech Against Trafficking members and partners across different workstreams related to privacy-preserving mechanisms, data standards, and increased platform engagement.

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Supply Chain

The Coronavirus’ Impact on Chinese Society and Supply Chains

The impact of Coronavirus on China and global business, especially supply chains, will be enormous. BSR's Lin Wang shares her experiences on the ground.

Sustainable Business in Asia: Three Environmental Drivers of the Decisive Decade thumnail image
Climate Change | Sustainability Management

Sustainable Business in Asia: Three Environmental Drivers of the Decisive Decade

Companies with operations in Asia will face a unique set of challenges and opportunities as we enter the decisive decade of the 2020s. BSR has identified the following trends relating to climate and the environment that are likely to impact how companies do business in the region.

The Decisive Decade thumnail image
Climate Change | Equity, Inclusion, And Justice | Human Rights | Supply Chain | Sustainability Management | Women’s Empowerment

The Decisive Decade

The 2020s will be the decisive decade in terms of meeting the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), shifting the economy to achieve the aspirations of the Paris Agreement, and achieving a fair economy that works for everyone. For companies, this decade will be about creating resilient business strategies, moving beyond integration of sustainability to truly redefine business and the role of the company in society.

Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Applying UNGPs in the Technology Sector thumnail image
Human Rights | Technology

Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Applying UNGPs in the Technology Sector

This blog is the first in a series of two about human rights assessments in the technology industry.

Climate Action in the 2020s: Three Steps to Reducing Value Chain Emissions thumnail image
Climate Change | Supply Chain

Climate Action in the 2020s: Three Steps to Reducing Value Chain Emissions

A company's value chain contains its largest GHG reduction potential, and value chain decarbonization is a necessity to achieve SBTs. For companies that are pursuing SBTs, we propose three steps as key to achieving value chain emissions reductions.

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Esg | Sustainability Management

Coming in from the Cold: ESG Has Its Davos Moment

It was heartening to see many new initiatives and announcements in the run up to and throughout the week at Davos 2020. One that deserves specific attention is the effort to create a single ESG reporting and disclosure framework.

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Climate Change | Supply Chain

In Conversation with Ross Rachey, Director, Global Fleet & Products, Amazon Logistics

Companies like Amazon are exploring technologies to address the challenges of climate change. Recently, BSR spoke with Ross Rachey, Director of Global Fleet & Products, Amazon Logistics at Amazon, to discuss the company’s approach to sustainable fuel technologies and how their work supports their broader climate and sustainability agenda.

Five Insights on the Future of Reporting from Uber’s Safety Report thumnail image
Technology

Five Insights on the Future of Reporting from Uber’s Safety Report

In December, Uber published its first-ever U.S. Safety Report, sharing the company’s approach to serious safety incidents—such as injuries, fatalities, and sexual assault or misconduct—and describing its recent safety investments. Uber deserves praise for voluntarily reporting on these important challenges, and its publication provides important lessons for other companies on the value of reporting.

Davos 2020: Progress in a Time of Turmoil? thumnail image
Climate Change | Equity, Inclusion, And Justice | Human Rights | Women’s Empowerment

Davos 2020: Progress in a Time of Turmoil?

Entering Davos Week 2020, there is clearly a new climate for business.

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Human Rights

Business Leadership in Defending Inclusive Societies and LGBTI Rights at Davos 2020

The Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is pleased that the economic inclusion discussion in Davos will shine a light on the discrimination faced by millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people worldwide every day.