Member Portal

A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.

Human Rights

An overview and analysis of current trends in biofuels.

Climate Change, Industrials, Transport and Logistics

Guidance on design and implementation of human rights strategies and best practices from companies.

Human Rights

Guidance on the elements of human rights governance, featuring example structures and company insights.

Human Rights, Governance

Welcome to the first edition of Insights+, a new series that will provide in-depth analysis of emerging global economic and social issues that are fundamental to your sustainable business strategy. In each issue, we’ll answer questions on critical topics that will help guide your leadership to mitigate risks while creating strategic advantage.

We welcome your feedback. If you have follow-up questions on any of the topics covered, or would like to suggest issues for us to explore in upcoming editions, please feel free to contact us.

ESG

January 2023: This deck provides exclusive insights for BSR members. It shares our global teams’ perspective on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Explore our survey on types of materiality approaches currently in use, periodicity and sources of assessments, and priority ESG issues now and in the future, based on responses from 13 key financial institutions.

Financial Services, ESG, Sustainability Management

This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.

Human Rights, Technology

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on net zero targets. We believe that setting science-based net-zero targets—and more importantly, taking ambitious action to achieve these targets—is core to the role that companies should play in helping achieve the Paris Agreement’s stretch target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

Climate Change

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the related concepts of materiality and salience. We believe that implementation of the key concepts described in this FAQ—such as double materiality, impact materiality, and salience—provide the foundation for more resilient business strategies, informed decision making by all stakeholders, and the realization of human rights in practice.

Sustainability Management, Sustainable Futures Lab

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the relationship between climate change and people. 

Climate Change, Human Rights

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on human rights assessments. We believe that identifying and prioritizing the actual and potential human rights impacts with which a company may be involved is a first critical step in avoiding, preventing, and mitigating harm to people associated with business activity.

Human Rights