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.

Content from this campaign

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

To Enhance Climate Resilience, Invest in Communities
Bangladesh is ranked among the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Last week, I saw that risk firsthand while attending the 10th annual Community-Based Adaptation conference in Dhaka. In conversations with climate and community adaptation experts, as well as through field trips into the city, a clear message prevailed: Companies must do more to build climate resilience by investing in communities and in those most disproportionately affected, including women. This will, in turn, generate business benefits.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Translating the Climate Agreement into Business Strategies: BSR's Four-Part Methodology
Now that 175 countries have signed the Paris Agreement, and the high-level legal treaty on climate is becoming a tangible reality, companies need to address a key question: What does the agreement mean for me?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Three Ways to Scale Climate-Smart Agriculture in the United States
Large-scale climate action in U.S. agriculture will require a massive, coordinated approach of organizations able to address different regions, commodities, and layers of the value chain. Here are three ways to approach it.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

We Must Be Bold on Climate: The Paris Agreement Is Signed
Leaders of more than 170 countries recently signed the Paris Agreement, marking a moment for businesses to reflect on the opportunities and risks that it presents to them, and to renew their commitment to climate action. Here's what businesses need to do.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

World’s Leading Companies Agree: Clean Power Plan Is Necessary Part of U.S. National Climate Plan
The biggest players in technology and some of the largest consumer brands recently submitted separate friend-of-the-court briefs providing resounding support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan. BSR's Edward Cameron and CERES' Anne Kelly explain.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Best Practices for Colocation Data Centers: A Guide to Maximizing Renewable Energy Mix
A report from BSR's Future of Internet Power identifies best practices for maximizing the use of renewable energy at colocation data centers (colos) in the United States.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

From Agreement to Action: Mobilizing Suppliers Toward a Climate-Resilient World
A new report written by BSR and produced by CDP outlines the current state of supplier performance on climate-change management.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mobilizing Suppliers for Climate Resilience: CDP 2015-2016 Supply Chain Report
A report from CDP and BSR analyzes climate data from suppliers and their corporate customers, and offers a path toward better management and decreasing emissions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Companies Blind to Climate Risks in Half Their Supply Chains
A new report, launched today by CDP and BSR, highlights the largest ever study of climate data from suppliers and their corporate customers.

Research, Reports & Publications

Kering and BSR Tackle Resilience to Climate Change for Luxury Fashion
Kering and BSR published a report today on tackling resilience to climate change in luxury fashion. The report is a first analysis of climate change and its consequences for the Luxury sector.

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