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Blockchain through the Whole Supply Chain: Traceability Builds Business Resilience
Over the past year, The Estée Lauder Companies and Aveda have been working with LMR Naturals by IFF, BSR, and Envisible to establish a blockchain-enabled traceable supply chain that identifies opportunities to deliver sustainability benefits to all actors
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Samfund
Challenges and Opportunities for Gender Equality in a European Luxury Supply Chain
What is the significance of the prized “Made in Italy” label that is well known in the luxury world?
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Medarbejder
Purchasing Power: The Opportunity for Women’s Advancement in Procurement and Global Supply Chains
2020 is a critical year for gender equality and women’s rights.
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Medarbejder
Gender Equality and Social Audits e-Learning
The resilience of global supply chains is intrinsically linked to the status of women on farms and in factories. In many industries, including agriculture, healthcare, apparel, and toys, women make up a majority of the workers.
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Strategi & ledelse
Hvordan bæredygtighedsteams kan imødekomme øjeblikket
Stakeholders forventninger til virksomheder forsvinder ikke, når tingene bliver svære - tværtimod vil de huske, hvilke virksomheder der udmærker sig i krisetider, og hvilke der ikke gør.
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Samfund
Business Action to Achieve Gender Equality in the Decisive Decade
How can we set the stage for how we can deliver gender equality in the decisive decade? Three ways we encourage companies to act to reach SDG 5 and realize the Women's Empowerment Principles globally.
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Supply chain
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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Menneskerettigheder
When It Comes to Racial Justice, the Business and Human Rights Community Can Do More
Since the tragic killing of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter has received an unprecedented wave of support as people call for an end to racial injustice. This is not just an issue confined to the United States—this is a global human rights imperative.
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Medarbejder
Women’s Empowerment Principles: Turning a Decade of Lessons into Ambitious Business Action
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a set of values based on international standards to guide business action to create more gender-equal workplaces.
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The Shift to Digital Wages: Making Sure It Works for Women and Business
This year’s International Women’s Day focused on recognizing gender bias and taking action for equality, principles that are always present in our work at HERproject.
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Empowering Women in Toy Factories: Insights from Our Pilot in India
If you are buying a toy for your child, niece, or nephew, it was most likely made by a woman in China or India. Indeed, women make up over 60 percent of the global toy manufacturing workforce and are critical to its success. However, low-income women working at toy factories can face gender discrimination, harassment, and poor health conditions.
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Menneskerettigheder
Hvordan beskytter vi bedst folkesundheden samtidig med, at vi respekterer menneskerettighederne?
Covid-19 er for alvor kommet til Europa, og vi skal derfor til at stille os selv et spørgsmål, som vi har haft ringe mulighed for førhen: Hvordan kan vi bedst beskytte folkesundheden samtidig med, at vi respekterer den individuelles menneskerettigheder?
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Klima, miljø og energi
The Case for Prioritizing Net Zero Carbon Emissions, Especially in Value Chains
Achieving emission reductions is on everyone's agenda these days, so why not collaborating to achieve this common goal?
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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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Strategi & ledelse
How Businesses Are Collaborating for the Sustainable Development Goals
In order to achieve the SDGs, private sector collaboration becomes increasingly paramount. Here are five examples of how BSR facilitates the transition towards a more just and sustainable world.
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Samfund
Harnessing the Power of Data in Supply Chains: Making Women Workers Count and Be Counted
We know that we are still a long way from achieving gender parity in the workplace—in part, because the data tells us so.
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Medarbejder
Business Action to Achieve Gender Equality in the Decisive Decade
As we enter the 2020s, BSR is eager to set the stage for how we can deliver gender equality in this decisive decade. The goalposts have been set: the Sustainable Development Goals state that we shouldn’t aim for global gender equality by 2030—we need to achieve it.
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Medarbejder
Can We Create a ‘Future of Work’ that Works for Women?
It wasn’t your typical business conference: youth from around the world danced in silent discos, Native women shared sacred words, and the Prime Minister of Canada made a 10-year commitment to women’s health.
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Strategi & ledelse
Women’s Empowerment Principles: Turning a Decade of Lessons into Ambitious Business Action
Companies are scaling up their commitments to ensure women and men can equally contribute to and benefit from workplace policies and programs. Yet, few companies are making the leap from commitment to action for meaningful change for women and men alike.
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Klima, miljø og energi
Climate Action in the 2020s: Three Steps to Reducing Value Chain Emissions
Reducing scope 3 emissions is a complex and urgent task in light of the climate crisis, yet it also offers a immense opportunity. Read here how BSR believes that emission reductions can be achieved across the value chain.
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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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