Climate Change | Financial Services
Blog Content Construction Set Test
There are many opportunities for financial services companies to fund the SDGs, and they should look at how to integrate the goals into these five areas.
Nature | Sustainable Futures Lab
So, You’ve Completed a Materiality Assessment. Now What?
Materiality assessments are a key part of companies' effective sustainability and business management. Explore next steps that companies can take after this exercise.
Business Transformation | Climate Change | Energy And Extractives | Human Rights | Sustainability Management | Sustainability Reporting
Why 2024 Could Be a Pivotal Year for Sustainability in the UK
With economic growth likely to be a key issue in the UK's next general election, leaders based in or with operations in the UK can take the lead in making the business case for sustainability.
Financial Services | Human Rights | Supply Chain
Twenty Years of Implementing Living Wage
BSR has been a driving force behind the Living Wage movement for the past 20 years. Explore trends behind the movement and what business needs to know.
Business Transformation | Collaboration | Emerging Issues | Supply Chain | Sustainability Management | Sustainability Reporting
Five Ways Companies Can Help Smallholders and SMEs Prepare for Upcoming Regulations
BSR’s Supply Chain Sustainability team shares five recommendations for businesses to enable incoming regulation to support transformation, with SMEs at the heart of resilient supply chains.
Business Transformation | Emerging Issues | Governance
Business Leadership Amidst 2024 Elections Around the Globe
Explore key takeaways from a recent roundtable on “Business Leadership Amidst the 2024 Elections Around the Globe,” hosted by BSR and Kite Insights.
Equity, Inclusion, And Justice
It’s Time for DEI to Evolve, Not Dissolve
BSR Director, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice MaryAnne Howland shares some common mischaracterizations of DEI work and discusses three ways companies can center this work in their business strategies.
Consumer Products | Industrials | Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment
RISE: A Reflection on Women’s Advancement Beyond Supervisory Roles in the Garment Industry
RISE spoke with women workers in Bangladesh and India to gather their perspectives on how they define career advancement and the barriers that prevent taking on supervisory positions.
Equity, Inclusion, And Justice | Human Rights | Supply Chain
Closing the Gender Gap: Addressing Wage Inequality
Companies can support women workers in industries like textiles and agriculture by applying a gender lens to their living wage approaches.
Business Transformation | Governance | Sustainability Reporting
Demystifying Social KPIs under CSRD: Six Recommendations for Business
Explore our roadmap for business on how to identify meaningful social KPIs and targets covering the entire value chain for companies in the EU.
Equity, Inclusion, And Justice
A Foundational Guide for Business on Social Justice for 2024 and Beyond
The Center for Business & Social Justice is officially launching the Social Justice Guide for Business: Moving Beyond Crisis to Action for meaningful engagement on social justice issues. The interaction between business and social justice is evolving, and this guidance serves as the basis to spark dialogue and collaboration with urgency and purpose.
Collaboration
Collaborating to Advance the SDGs: Three Considerations for Business Leaders
Business-led multi-stakeholder collaborations play a key role in advancing the SDGs. Drawing on BSR’s extensive collaboration expertise and a partnership with Sida, learn practical examples from our work on SDGs.
Climate Change | Energy And Extractives | Human Rights | Industrials | Transport And Logistics
Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Corporate Risk Registers
To ensure that risk registers effectively measure human rights risks, BSR has outlined three approaches and opportunties for business.
Business Transformation | Consumer Products | Food, Beverage, And Agriculture | Supply Chain
Investing in Women Workers: How Training has Helped Build Financial Resilience in Shea Supply Chains
For companies looking to improve outcomes for workers in agricultural supply chains, explore key takeaways from a pilot program developed for women in Northern Ghana’s shea supply chains by BSR, the Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, and partners.
Business Transformation | Emerging Issues | Governance
2024’s Elections: A Defining Test for Business Leadership
With more than half the world’s voting population heading to the polls in learn more on the growing threats to democracy, the barriers to fair elections, and how business and business leaders can adapt to a world where a sense of economic precarity is fueling fear-based politics.