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This FAQ sets out BSR’s perspective on generative AI and its implications for ethics and human rights.

Human Rights, Technology

A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.

Human Rights

For companies designing and implementing a just, equitable and inclusive approach to net zero, the process is complex and requires difficult trade-offs. This guidance offers practical steps to help companies formulate a just transition plan.

Climate Change, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting BSR to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.

Human Rights

Transform to Net Zero created the Supplier Transformation Framework to help companies identify and improve their suppliers’ climate performance.

Climate Change, Supply Chain

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on new laws and regulations relevant for our work. The field of just and sustainable business is entering a new era where actions that have previously been voluntary are becoming mandatory. We believe it is essential that the spirit of the law is achieved as well as its letter, that compliance supports ambitious human rights policies and sustainability goals, and that regulatory requirements are used to help create a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. 

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting

AI is driving change within the extractives sector, potentially leading to major human rights impacts throughout company operations, from geologic risk analysis to workplace management.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

Financial institutions are increasingly using AI technologies, from reducing operational costs to delivering customer service. Yet this evolution may bring human rights risks—as well as opportunities—that companies can’t ignore.

Financial Services, Human Rights

Understanding the foundational and key attributes of establishing and managing a responsible supply chain.

Supply Chain, Technology

June 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides BSR members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic, increased scrutiny of corporations and organizations' internal DEI practices, and civil and financial unrest around the globe, there has been a substantial increase in organizations seeking out guidance on how to build a strong culture of inclusion and belonging.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Unconscious biases, though a normal cognitive process, play a significant role in shaping our decisions and actions without our conscious awareness. These biases are cognitive shortcuts that our brains use to condense vast amounts of information and make quick judgments. However, they can be rewritten through deliberate effort and awareness. It is essential for business leaders to recognize and mitigate these biases as they can have both negative and positive impacts on workplace dynamics and decision-making.

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice