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Klima, miljø og energi
Applying an ESG Lens to Crypto
Cryptocurrencies continue to attract investors against the odds. How can businesses approach these opportunities in a way that maximizes their potential for empowerment and inclusivity, while guarding against significant environmental and social concerns?
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Menneskerettigheder
Why Every Business Needs to Think about Responsible AI
It’s time for all companies to take a human rights-based approach to the deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Upcoming regulations will require companies to take appropriate measures to identify current and potential impacts.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Redefining Business Growth within Planetary Boundaries
Economic, equitable progress and wider prosperity that is limited to planetary boundaries are the greatest challenges that business faces–but current environmental trends are alarming.
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Supply chain
Building Responsibly: Raising Ambition for over One Million Workers
Philippe Fonta discusses his new role as Director of Building Responsibly, unique challenges facing industry workers, and how he plans to accelerate impact in the year ahead.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Six Actions for Business in Post-Roe America
Thousands of companies acted in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision, demonstrating that abortion access is about the health, safety, and well-being of workers as well as part of gender equity in the workplace.
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Menneskerettigheder
FIFA World Cup: Combating Modern Slavery at Mega Sporting Events
Major sporting events have been linked with serious human rights abuses, including sex trafficking as well as modern slavery in the construction industry and janitorial and security services.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Calling for Action on Climate Justice at COP27
Africa has already suffered from significant climate-induced loss and destruction, yet it produces less than 5 percent of global GHG emissions.
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Klima, miljø og energi
How Demand for Critical Minerals Could Lead to Counterintuitive Futures
Rohitesh Dhawan, President and CEO of the International Council on Mining and Metals, shares some of the weird scenarios he envisions for the future of critical metals and minerals with Jacob Park, Director of the Sustainable Futures Lab.
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Strategi & ledelse
Building Competent Boards: ESG Is Not about “Skills-Washing”
Q&A with Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO and Founder of Competent Boards
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Menneskerettigheder
Embedding Human Rights from Boots to the Boardroom
Business can use the findings of human rights due diligence to catalyze the development and implementation of long-term human rights action plans. To do this, they need buy-in from all levels of the business.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Decoding Nature’s Soundscapes
Using new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analysis, scientists are getting closer to understanding how organisms and ecosystems use sound, or “bioacoustics,” to communicate.
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Menneskerettigheder
Fashion Industry’s Four Largest Women’s Empowerment Programs Form New Initiative RISE to Scale Impact
BSR’s HERproject, Gap Inc., P.A.C.E, CARE, and Better Work have come together to form a new initiative called RISE: Reimagining Industry to Support Equality in order to scale impact and accelerate equality for women workers.
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Menneskerettigheder
Tech-Driven Insight to Address Labor Exploitation: TAT Launches Third Accelerator
This month, Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) launched the third iteration of its flagship Accelerator program, partnering with Issara Institute and Polaris Project’s Nonechka program.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Neurorights: A Business Response
The EU is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) act to protect human rights and define high-risk uses.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Accelerating an Inclusive Energy Transition beyond COP27
Climate COPs have become more of a trade fair than international negotiation. They are a key annual opportunity for the sustainability profession to meet in person.
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Medarbejder
Inside BSR: Q&A with Jonathan Morris
"I got involved in sustainable business thanks to a fluke, really. I was studying sustainability at the Business School HEC, but it was a real career shift moment and those are never guaranteed."
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Klima, miljø og energi
Scenarios Reveal the Urgency of Climate Action for the Food, Beverage, and Agriculture Sector
Land use, crop production, and the respective food, beverage, and agricultural markets are inextricably linked to climate and will be shaped by rising global temperatures and our response to changing weather patterns.
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Menneskerettigheder
Building Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Recommendations for Business
Three case studies explore how companies are approaching survivor employment and provide practical guidance for businesses to implement their own trauma-informed practice.
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Strategi & ledelse
Nine Ways to Activate Your Board on Climate
Recent years have seen an astonishing uptake of ambitious corporate climate goals. And recent weeks have seen an even more dramatic rise in activist action to boards and leadership on the very climate goals set by organizations.
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Strategi & ledelse
Transform, Finance, and Adapt: What the IPCC Report Means for Credible Corporate Climate Action
The new IPCC synthesis report shows that we must speed up the scale and pace of climate action. Scaling effective and equitable climate action now will reduce harm to nature and people. We outline 6 key ways business can take credible, effective action.
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Strategi & ledelse
Get Comfortable with Uncertainty in 2023
Crisis and uncertainty often prompt greater investment in sustainability, as companies realize the need to better understand and act on environmental and social dynamics.
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Strategi & ledelse
Upcoming Regulations in ESG Ratings: Three Implications for Business
ESG assets may hit US$53 trillion by 2025, a third of global assets under management (AUM). There are increasing concerns over greenwashing, the reliability of these ratings, and how well they reflect a company’s commitment to ESG.
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Klima, miljø og energi
COP15: A Historic Deal to Halt Biodiversity Loss by 2030
The first quarter of 2023 is critical, as the corporate community harnesses the momentum of the event, considers the implications of the Global Biodiversity Framework, and moves forward on new initiatives to protect nature.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Just Transition: Navigating Beyond Best Practice
Now more than ever, companies will have to implement best practices as we undergo a massive transformation to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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Klima, miljø og energi
How Business Can Integrate Biodiversity into a Nature Strategy
A clear understanding of biodiversity and its impact on nature, and how this is factored into decision-making, will determine the ability to fulfill the 2030 Agenda.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Social Unrest: Fixing the “S” of ESG in Private Equity
The growth of sustainable investing and “ESG” in private equity (PE) signals important progress in the financial industry as investors begin to appreciate how sustainability creates risks and opportunities.
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Supply chain
The Supply Chain Risk You Didn’t Know About: Navigating Responsible Sourcing in AI
It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming business, and it’s doing so well beyond the boundaries of traditional technology sector companies.
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