Quarterly Member Insights: Sustainable Business Trends Shaping 2024

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

October 9, 2024
11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT

Location

Webinar

Event Resources

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BSR provides members with access to exclusive insights and analysis to help your business see a changing world more clearly and transform to meet present and future sustainability challenges. Every quarter, BSR members receive the ‘Quarterly Member Insights’ report with news and insights from our global team of sustainability and industry experts. Our quarterly webinars walk you through these emerging developments and explore their implications for your company and its key stakeholders.   

In our fourth installment of 2024, you will hear from our experts across our focus areas in Climate Change, Equity Inclusion and Justice, Human Rights, Nature, Supply Chain Sustainability, and Sustainability Management.

The webinar is open to all member companies and their employees. We encourage you to invite additional colleagues inside or outside of your team and take full advantage of BSR’s member benefits.

Scheduled Speakers

• Alison Berthet, Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR
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Alison Berthet
Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR
Paris
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Alison supports companies in embedding respect for human rights across their organizations and value chain. She brings a strong, collaborative spirit and expertise in developing and implementing strategies and governance, due diligence, and engagement mechanisms to effectively manage human rights risks. 
Alison joined BSR from BT Group plc, a BSR member company, where she led the development of a new human rights strategy geared at ensuring a responsible approach to how the organization buys, sells, develops, and uses technology. Highlights included setting up a new steering group, engaging key internal stakeholders through innovative workshops, and integrating human rights risks in BT’s group risk management framework. Before that, Alison trained and practiced as a corporate lawyer at the global law firm Hogan Lovells, specializing in international arbitration and business and human rights disputes. Her experience included advising a European energy company and its executives against a potential criminal prosecution for complicit liability in war crimes committed by a state military.
Alison holds a LLM in Public International Law and a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Alison is fluent in English and French.
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Recent Insights From Alison Berthet
• The CSDDD: Compliance Meets Sustainability Ambitions / June 20, 2024 / Insights+
• A Coherent Approach to Sustainability Due Diligence and Reporting: Making Sense of CSDDD and CSRD / June 17, 2024 / Blog
• Human Rights in Transport & Logistics / May 2, 2024 / Blog
• CSDDD: A Pragmatic Approach to Managing Human Rights and Environmental Impacts / April 29, 2024 / Blog
• Building an Effective Supply Chain Data Ecosystem to Prevent Forced Labor / April 24, 2024 / Blog
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• Nine Weijenborg, Associate Director, Transformation and Financial Services, BSR
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Nine Weijenborg
Associate Director, Transformation and Financial Services, BSR
Paris
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Nine supports BSR’s work across various industries, including financial services, industrials and utilities, and energy and extractives. She focuses on design and implementation of sustainability strategies, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and governance.
Prior to joining BSR, Nine worked in PwC’s sustainability services practice, where she advised multinational companies on sustainability strategies. She focused on how organizations could integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their strategies and practices to increase their positive impact and mitigate their negative impact. She also audited social and environmental data. Nine is a One Young World ambassador.
Nine holds an M.Sc. in Food Safety Law from Wageningen University and an L.L.M. in Law from the University of Amsterdam. She wrote her master’s thesis at the University of Cape Town, focusing on food innovations for local farmers.
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Recent Insights From Nine Weijenborg
• The Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting on Corporate Functions / September 11, 2024 / Blog
• Beyond Compliance: Eight Considerations for Your Materiality Assessment / November 30, 2023 / Blog
• The Evolving Reporting Landscape / September 18, 2023 / Insights+
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