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Four Ways to Enhance Your Materiality Assessment thumnail image

Four Ways to Enhance Your Materiality Assessment

This is how to leverage data analytics, artificial intelligence, futures thinking, and other innovative approaches to inform your sustainability strategy.
Are Companies and Stakeholders Focusing on the Same Sustainability Priorities? thumnail image

Are Companies and Stakeholders Focusing on the Same Sustainability Priorities?

We looked at online news and social media conversations around the business practices of 4,000 global companies across sectors to determine alignment between company and stakeholder priorities.
From the Global Climate Action Summit to UNGA Week thumnail image

From the Global Climate Action Summit to UNGA Week

Action to address the social impacts of climate change and other disruptions is essential to reach the SDGs—and that action must be inclusive of those left behind by the many changes remaking the economy.
Climate Solutions Need Women at the Center thumnail image

Climate Solutions Need Women at the Center

Companies can address climate risk more effectively and efficiently if they put women at the heart of their climate resilience strategies.
Are You Ready to Incorporate Gender into Your Supply Chain Due Diligence? thumnail image

Are You Ready to Incorporate Gender into Your Supply Chain Due Diligence?

New gender-sensitive auditing guidance provides recommendations, practical advice, and relevant examples on how to effectively integrate gender considerations into audits.
How Businesses Are Collaborating for the Sustainable Development Goals thumnail image

How Businesses Are Collaborating for the Sustainable Development Goals

For meaningful progress toward the SDGs, we need actors across entire value chains to take collective action on the issues that threaten business growth and social development.
The State—and Future—of Sustainable Business in 2018 thumnail image

The State—and Future—of Sustainable Business in 2018

The 10th annual BSR and GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business 2018 Survey provides insight into how business leaders are responding to a rapidly changing world.
Climate and the Economy: The Relationship between Inclusion, Equality, Business, and the Planet thumnail image

Climate and the Economy: The Relationship between Inclusion, Equality, Business, and the Planet

There is a critical need for business to support society in adapting to climate risk and to do so in a way that addresses inequality and structural inclusion.
The Impacts of Climate on Health: Why Business Should Care and How to Act thumnail image

The Impacts of Climate on Health: Why Business Should Care and How to Act

As climate change intensifies, so do its impacts on human health. Here's how business can act.
Three Tips for Partnerships to Advance Workplace Health thumnail image

Three Tips for Partnerships to Advance Workplace Health

BSR partnered through HERproject with Evidence Project, Meridian Group International, Inc., and Bayer Pharmaceuticals to create printable health education materials for the workplace covering issues like voluntary family planning and menstrual hygiene.
Why Climate Resilience and Supply Chains Go Hand in Hand thumnail image

Why Climate Resilience and Supply Chains Go Hand in Hand

A new BSR report—the first of its series—explores the business case for integrating climate risks into supply chain management.
Preparing for a Future without Certification: Why We Need More Engagement and Traceability thumnail image

Preparing for a Future without Certification: Why We Need More Engagement and Traceability

We don’t need to put more effort into certification and accounting for sustainability; we need to meaningfully change how we manage and engage with supply chains.
How Business Can Manage Climate Risk in Southeast Asia thumnail image

How Business Can Manage Climate Risk in Southeast Asia

Because of the existing and projected impacts from climate change, it is imperative for businesses in Southeast Asia to build resilience to prepare for today’s climate reality.

Business Prepares for Its Curtain Call at the Global Climate Action Summit thumnail image

Business Prepares for Its Curtain Call at the Global Climate Action Summit

BSR has been working closely with business leading up to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to advance new commitments that demonstrate how the private sector can be a leader in climate action that fosters inclusive economic growth.