Business in a Climate-Compatible World

BSR catalyzes private-sector action on climate change in two ways: by helping companies reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and by empowering business to enhance its adaptive capacity and broader societal resilience in the face of inevitable climate impacts.

Our approach includes translating the best available climate knowledge for the private sector, shaping policy environments conducive to business leadership, working with companies directly to understand climate risk and build climate change strategies for resilience across the value chain, and facilitating collaborative initiatives that allow companies to work together with other stakeholders in pursuit of climate ambition.

To learn more, visit www.bsr.org/climate.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Road Fleets Demand More Sustainable, Low-Carbon Fuels for Freight
BSR's new Sustainable Fuel Buyers' Principles aim to help companies drive economic growth and emissions reductions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New BSR Report: Scaling Clean Energy Through Financial Industry Collaboration
The transition to a low-carbon economy is underway. This new research report from BSR, with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and ClimateWorks, highlights how collaboration with the financial industry can help address three specific market barriers and scale finance for clean energy action.

Environment

BSR’s Statement on the U.S. Administration Executive Order on Climate Change
The executive order withdrawing from the U.S. Clean Power Plan puts significant progress toward a clean economy at risk, but two factors will ensure that this low-carbon transition is inevitable.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Forging the Missing Link: What the 2017 CDP Supply Chain Report Says About Supplier Engagement
While this year's CDP Supply Chain Report, written by BSR in partnership with CDP and the Carbon Trust, showed that the world's largest purchasing organizations are driving down emissions in their supply chains, it also highlighted the need for urgency.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Suppliers Report 434 Million Metric Tons of Emissions Reductions as Big Buyers Flex Purchasing Muscle
As the global economy moves toward implementation of its new climate goals, the world’s largest purchasing organizations are using their buying clout to drive down emissions across their supply chains.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Group Representing 85 Percent of Ocean Container Shipping and Key Customers Calls for Climate Action
Members of BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG) have agreed on a climate action statement and call to action for the container shipping sector and its value chain to support private-sector contributions for the global goals on climate change. Today, CCWG includes ocean container shipping lines representing about 85 percent of global volume and more than a dozen key cargo owners.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Tools to Chart the Course toward the Climate North Star
The science-based goals set forth in the Paris Agreement can help companies make decisions on climate action. Here's how we navigate to those goals.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Paris Agreement Asks Businesses to Be Bold
A new report, written by BSR in partnership with We Mean Business, explains the mechanisms of the Paris Agreement on climate change, how they will affect businesses, and how companies can seize the immense opportunities that the agreement unlocks.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Getting to a Green Internet, One Goal at a Time
BSR's Future of Internet Power is pleased to share that 20 information and communications technology companies have now committed to a 100 percent renewables goal.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Setting Your Own Direction for a Clean-Fuel Commercial Fleet
A new fuel tool from BSR's Future of Fuels helps companies make the most sustainable and effective decisions to create cleaner fleets.

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