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HERproject Announces Five-Year Strategic Partnership with BESTSELLER
The aim of the partnership is to accelerate BESTSELLER’s 2025 Fashion FWD goal of supporting 100,000 women in garment factories to achieve workplace empowerment, improve life skills and enable HERproject’s goal to support 1.6 million women workers by 2022
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Klima, miljø og energi
The New Climate for Business
As we enter the 2020s, we are at a new hinge point in history. Changes in policy, politics, public perception, and the natural world are creating profound impacts for business. All of this adds up to a New Climate for Business in this decisive decade.
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Supply chain
Supply Chains Give Us the Opportunity to Measure and Fight Violence against Women
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, here is an example how BSR's HERproject enables leading global brands and their suppliers to empower women in their global supply chains.
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Supply chain
How Companies Can Tackle Poverty Through Inclusive Employment Strategies
To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, here is BSR's new toolkit that enables your company to have a significant impact on poverty alleviation and achieving SDGs 1 and 8.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Supply Chain Visibility: Traceability, Transparency, and Mapping Explained
Gaining visibility into your multi-tier supply chain is a worthwhile endeavor.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Why Collaboration Is Key to Change: BSR’s Insights
July 29 marked this year’s Earth Overshoot day—an astoundingly early reminder that we are using up our planet’s resources at an unsustainable rate. And while the world is changing for the better and advancing the 2030 Agenda, with many positive examples in the Nordics in particular, it is not changing anywhere near fast enough.
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Strategi & ledelse
The Future of Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability reporting and environment, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures are on the rise around the globe—we’ve seen increased regulation in Asia, it has become expected practice in Europe, and investors in the U.S. are increasingly using this information to inform their decision-making.
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Menneskerettigheder
Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence
This is part of a series of blog posts BSR has published in 2018 exploring the intersection of disruptive technologies and sustainability.
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Strategi & ledelse
How Business Can Manage Climate Risk in Southeast Asia
New research funded by The Rockefeller Foundation to help companies build climate resilience in Southeast Asi
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Klima, miljø og energi
Case: The Amazon Case Study on the Future of Fuels
Alternative fuels will play a major role in minimizing GHG emissions. BSR spoke recently with Amazon to discuss the company’s approach to sustainable fuel technologies and how their work supports their broader climate and sustainability agenda.
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Menneskerettigheder
Human Rights Day 2019: BSR Reflections on the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
Today we celebrate the 71st Birthday of the Declaration of Human Rights and share some reflections of the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, which our team has participated in Geneva a few weeks ago.
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Menneskerettigheder
Case: Google's Human Rights by Design
BSR has previously emphasized the importance of human rights by design in the technology industry. Today, Google announced the launch of a product that took this approach with its new celebrity recognition application program interface (API).
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Supply chain
One Year In: Meeting the Global Impact Sourcing Challenge
The Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC), a BSR Collaborative Initiative, enables companies to foster inclusive growth and alleviate poverty through their global supply chains. See how the initiative has had an impact on workers' lives for the better.
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Klima, miljø og energi
What Do the Next 20 Years Hold for the Healthcare Industry?
On the occasion of Dansk Industri's Healthcare Day 2019, here's a snapshot of BSR's key insights on how the healthcare industry will transform in the next 20 years, by our Director, Cecile Oger.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Case: How Business Can Build a ‘Future of Work’ That Works for Women
BSR and Women Deliver release a new report on how companies can act, enable and influence to ensure that the future of work, will work for women.
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Strategi & ledelse
Procurement in 2019: Shared Objectives, Shared Challenges
In 2019 procurement executives can help advance their objectives by aligning with their colleagues in trade finance and the sustainability department. At the end of 2018, BSR and Bank of America Merrill Lynch held an event in London to discuss what our future supply chains will look like and how procurement, trade finance, and sustainability can work together.
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Strategi & ledelse
How Businesses Are Collaborating for the Sustainable Development Goals
Five Examples of Private-Sector Collaboration toward the SDGs
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Klima, miljø og energi
Steps to Create Your Company’s Renewable Energy Strategy
At the Global Climate Action Summit this fall, stakeholders from around the globe will meet in San Francisco to discuss how we can take climate ambition to the next level. Business can play a significant leadership role in accelerating the transition to a lower-carbon economy, and as we have seen through initiatives like the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), renewable energy can be a key component of climate action efforts.
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Strategi & ledelse
Five Tips for Setting Bold Sustainability Goals for 2020 and Beyond
We are one month into the decisive decade where we will witness if business will deliver on the SDGs by 2030. Read BSRs advise on how your organization can set brave commitments to drive sustainable change.
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Menneskerettigheder
If Corruption Is a Cancer, How Do We Cure It? Lessons for International Anti-Corruption Day
BSR Copenhagen Head of Office and MACN executive director Cecilia Müller Torbrand shares her insights on how the maritime industry collectively fights corruption - and how other industries can emulate MACNs efforts.
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Supply chain
Making Supply Chains Safe for Women Workers
By acknowledging the challenges and aligning values with supply chain partners, buyers and suppliers can make change. Harassment and violence is a reality for many women workers. You can do something—now—to improve it. Here is how:
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Klima, miljø og energi
Climate Week 2019: Time for Bold Commitments—and Action
BSR's President & CEO Aron Cramer is setting the scene for the Climate Week 2019, which is to be kicked off next week by the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit.
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Menneskerettigheder
New Collaborative Initiative to Advance LGBTI Equality Globally
BSR is announcing our latest Collaborative Initiative, the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, OHCHR, and BSR to advance implementation of the UN Standards tackling discrimination against LGTBI people
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Menneskerettigheder
Time’s Up: Kvinder bør være i front og centrum af virksomheders menneskerettigheds due diligence
Kvinder er disproportionalt sårbare overfor negativ påvirkning af menneskerettighederne. Læs de fire vigtigste pointer fra rapporten Gender Dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights om kønsblinde menneskerettigheds due diligence
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Strategi & ledelse
Four Steps to Align ESG and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
As outlined in BSR’s recent report, Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World, resilient business strategies require an enterprise risk management (ERM) approach that effectively incorporates sustainability risks of material significance to the company, such as climate change, natural resource availability, and social volatility.
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Samfund
The Impacts of Climate on Health: Why Business Should Care and How to Act
Every year since 2011, the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report has identified climate-related risks as a top threat to business. In 2018, failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was ranked within the top 10 global risks, alongside extreme weather events and natural disasters. Climate-related risks are wide-ranging, persist throughout value chains, and can be expected to pose severe financial threats to companies worldwide.
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Supply chain
Case: The Coca-Cola Company: Building a Climate-Resilient Value Chain
The Coca-Cola Company has been working to reduce emissions in its supply chain for years—including not only those associated with bottling, but also those associated with growing ingredients, producing packaging, and distributing and refrigerating products. As climate change impacts have begun to manifest around the globe, the 132-year-old company partnered with BSR to take this work a step further to examine what climate risk and resilience might mean for The Coca-Cola Company value chain.
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