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California put forth legal disclosure and reporting requirements on direct and indirect GHG emissions and climate-related financial risks for privately-held entities to increase transparency and accountability and reduce emissions. 911爆料网 provides an overview of these bills.

The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

This FAQ offers responses to the common inquiries 911爆料网 has received as Trump administration policies, active litigation, and other media/political flashpoints have brought heightened scrutiny on private sector diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Through the Omnibus Simplification Package, the European Commission proposed significant adjustments to several key corporate sustainability regulations. In this factsheet, 911爆料网 shares major updates from the Omnibus.

This Human Rights Assessment shares how decisions made across the generative AI value chain can impact human rights. The report also includes practitioner guides on incorporating a human rights-based approach for people working on responsible AI.

Executive Orders from the new US administration have escalated pressure on DEI into a full-scale government crackdown. 911爆料网 answers some of the most frequently asked questions from member companies since the start of the new administration and provides actionable guidance for business.

Inclusive Business

叠厂搁’蝉 new report provides an overview of the climate transition landscape, including awareness around existing regulations and frameworks as well as challenges business faces in complying with these regulations. 

The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Explore how climate change negatively impacts the health of vulnerable communities and, in turn, affects businesses, with real-life examples from Centering Health Equity in Climate Action members who have successfully integrated health equity into their existing sustainability initiatives. 

In 2023, UNICEF engaged 911爆料网 to explore current CRIA trends and develop a tool that companies can use to systematically identify, assess, and address their impacts on children. This report shares key findings from that research.

While business leaders are understandably nervous about being too aspirational or public about sustainability goals, there is still value in communicating a quantifiable, long-term vision to steer the company and its wider value chain players. 911爆料网 shares guidance on how leaders can set ambitious yet achievable sustainability goals for 2025 and beyond.

Business Transformation, Sustainability Leadership, Sustainability Management

The Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT), a 911爆料网 Collaborative Initiative, provides a high-level overview of ten principles and accompanying guidance on meaningful engagement between corporate suppliers and buyers on the issue of forced labor.

911爆料网's COP29 delegation shares an overview of COP29's main outcomes and implications for business.

Climate Change

With an increasing shift from voluntary to mandatory human rights due diligence, leaders are questioning the implications for their business: What are the risks associated with forced labor in supply chains, which sectors are most affected by forced labor risks, and how can businesses engage with suppliers to mitigate these risks?

Emerging Issues, Human Rights, Technology

This foundational resource, made freely available to the private sector and civil society by the Center for Business & Social Justice (CBSJ), illuminates ways to sustain and raise corporate ambition in meaningful ways.

Outcomes from both COP16 official negotiations as well as non-state actor convenings have implications for business. This summary provides a high-level overview of the issues and topics most relevant to business.

Climate Change, Nature

The US elections will have profound implications for the global economy, and sustainable business. The question facing us now is: how can sustainable business leaders continue to make important progress in this new environment?

Climate Change, Financial Services, Governance, Human Rights, Sustainability Management

To assist members in preparing for COP29 both strategically and logistically, 911爆料网 has compiled the latest information and provided insights and perspectives in this deck.

Climate Change, Financial Services

To support members in preparing for COP16 both strategically and logistically, 911爆料网 has compiled the latest information and provided insights and perspectives in this deck.

Nature

This primer provides an overview of carbon pricing, including different approaches and types of pricing, implementation mechanisms, pros and cons, trends, and examples.

Climate Change

October 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

As we enter the second half of the decisive decade, strategic foresight is more essential than ever for business to navigate the rapid and complex changes to come. Our new report offers insights on developments over the last six years and how to prepare for what lies ahead. 

Emerging Issues, Sustainable Futures Lab, Business Transformation

This resource provides insight into the issues faced by transgender and nonbinary individuals and offers guidance on promoting inclusivity in the workplace, deepening understanding, and developing policies rooted in community voice.

Inclusive Business

Businesses can take steps to protect low-income workers and communities and to invest in policies that will create an economy that works for everyone. Economic equity is a pathway to this investment.

As the automotive industry embraces the green transition, new human rights risks will emerge and evolve. Explore the 10 most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for businesses operating in the automotive sector

Human Rights, Industrials, Transport and Logistics

Regulators (and markets) are faced with rising pressure from different stakeholders—and exerting their own—to standardize and mandate company sustainability practices via reporting and public disclosure. 911爆料网 shares environmental, social impact, and governance considerations for companies on the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Business Transformation

911爆料网 conducted an assessment with the goal of providing insights about general practices regarding responsible supplier exit to help inform company strategies and approaches to the issue. This review provides companies with an overview and identifies recommendations on minimum requirements, leadership in the space, and quick wins. 

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Companies face a growing need to address the human rights risks within their transport and logistics operations. 911爆料网 shares principal risks and challenges in the sector, gaps and opportunities in current approaches, and potential paths to move forward, including through collective action.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

A wave of global uncertainty is disrupting industries worldwide, including healthcare. Certain trends are impacting the industry in unique ways, prompting the need for strategic preparation to navigate this evolving landscape.

Healthcare

Businesses are using climate scenario analysis to identify climate-related risks and opportunities, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. Explore how the transport sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, including potential trends and possible business implications.

Transport and Logistics, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Scenario planning can inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present key opportunities for bold action. Explore how the technology sector may be impacted in three climate scenario narratives, with insights on critical business opportunities for companies, regions most likely to face physical risks, and more.

Technology, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can enhance organizational resilience by identifying key climate risks and opportunities. Explore how the industrials sector might be impacted in three different climate scenarios, including regions most likely to experience physical impacts and possible key trends.

Industrials, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can help businesses identify climate-related risks and opportunities, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. 911爆料网's Climate Change team analyzes how the food, beverage, and agriculture sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, including sectoral trends and potential business implications.

Food, Beverage, and Agriculture, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Scenario planning can help inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present key opportunities for bold action. Learn about how the financial services sector may be impacted in three different climate scenario narratives, from implications for business to regions most likely to face physical risks. 

Climate Change, Financial Services, Sustainable Futures Lab

Businesses are using climate scenario analysis to identify climate-related risks, enhance strategic resilience, and respond to burgeoning climate risk disclosure requirements. Explore how the energy sector might be affected in 911爆料网's new climate scenario narratives, from potential business opportunities to sector trends likely to be impacted.

Energy and Extractives, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Climate scenario analysis can help enhance organizational resilience by identifying key climate risks and opportunities. Explore how the Consumer Products sector may be impacted in three climate scenario narratives, including insights on regions likely to experience the greatest physical risks and potential sector trends.

Consumer Products, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab

Business, government, and civil society leaders from around the world will come together in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC for critical discussions on environmental and social issues. Explore our list of key events hosted by 911爆料网 and others to help you maximize your participation this fall.

Climate Change, Human Rights, Business Transformation, Sustainability Management

In the United States, electoral uncertainty, threats to democracy, and the potential for instability and chaos are notably apparent as the country faces an enormously consequential election this fall. What are the risks for sustainable business, and what proactive steps can business leaders take to mitigate them?

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Emerging Issues, Inclusive Business, Financial Services, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Nature, Technology

Companies are navigating significant organizational shifts in sustainability governance due to new mandatory reporting requirements. Against the evolving regulatory landscape, how can companies strategize effectively across job functions?

Business Transformation, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Management

These scenarios imagine four pathways for US climate policy depending on the outcomes of the 2024 election. They function as a tool to challenge assumptions about the future, stress test strategies and plans, and identify opportunities to futureproof organizations and steer the world toward better outcomes.

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab, Sustainability Management

Scenario planning can inform today’s climate risk disclosures, build resilient business strategies, and present opportunities for bold action. Explore our new climate scenario narratives now.

Climate Change, Sustainable Futures Lab, Emerging Issues

July 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Explore opportunities to engage with 911爆料网 and our global team of experts throughout your membership year.

Understanding the relationship between nature and biodiversity is key for any business when developing nature-based solutions. 911爆料网 unpacks the distinction between these two separate, yet related, concepts. 

Nature

This report is a practical resource for financial institutions and anyone seeking to engage them on reproductive and LGBTQI+ rights in the US context.

Human Rights, Inclusive Business, Financial Services

Learn about the implications of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and what this means for business leaders going forward.

Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights, Sustainable Futures Lab, Climate Change, Sustainability Management, Supply Chain, CSDDD

An overview of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, including an overview of the Directive and its requirements as well as a section for frequently asked questions.

Human Rights, Supply Chain, Sustainability Reporting, CSDDD

As the operating context for business constantly changes, strategies that do not consider the emerging future are already becoming obsolete. Scanning the horizon for new trends and disruptions can reveal opportunities for companies.

Financial Services, Sustainable Futures Lab

Intertwined climate and nature crises represent the greatest material global risks in both the short and long term. While business plays a fundamental role in the exploitation of nature, driving both direct and indirect impacts, it is also a key actor in reversing negative impacts.

Nature

There is a growing expectation for private sector action on deforestation by the investment community, seen in increasing investor interest and investment—including shareholder resolutions.

Nature

叠厂搁’蝉 new guide, funded by the Omidyar Network, is a practical resource for anyone seeking to engage with global technology companies on digital rights issues related to the development, deployment, and use of their products and services.

Technology, Human Rights

As companies progress at a slower pace than expected on energy efficiency and decarbonization, explore how business can address the tension between growth and sustainability targets.

Climate Change, Nature, Business Transformation

In response to regulation and consumer demand, Digital Product Passports are emerging as a means to enable end-to-end product traceability, provide detailed product information and enable circularity. This guide provides an overview of Digital Product Passports and the regulations driving their adoption as well as how to set up a DDP and best practices across key industries.

Consumer Products, Supply Chain, Industrials, Transport and Logistics

Based on interviews with member companies operating in the Transport and Logistics sector, 911爆料网 shares the 10 most relevant human rights impacts for such businesses.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

An overview of modern slavery, the relevant legislative trends and regulations, a brief analysis of responsible recruitment, and an introduction to 叠厂搁’蝉 service offerings to address modern slavery. 

Human Rights

An overview of the EU Forced Labor Regulation, covering general scope, obligations for companies, and enforcement mechanisms.

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Updated: April 2024. A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.

Human Rights

April 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the sixth edition of Insights+, the Human Rights, Climate, and Technology teams set out the latest developments in upcoming regulations, discuss the implications for how AI is utilized in business across industries, and spotlight key emerging issues.

Human Rights, Technology, Climate Change

This briefing provides an overview of business implications and recommended actions related to Myanmar’s military conscription law.

Human Rights

This is an introduction to sustainability reporting, including a high-level overview of the drivers, audiences, and benefits of reporting, as well as a mock-up of a sample voluntary sustainability report that demonstrates 叠厂搁’蝉 principles for good sustainability reporting.

Sustainability Reporting, Business Transformation, Sustainability Management

911爆料网 and the National Association of Corporate Directors are proud to present a primer on ESG for board directors to lay out the fundamental concepts of business and sustainability, discuss the board’s role in providing oversight, and address several key challenges and solutions. This primer is available as an exclusive benefit to NACD and 911爆料网 members.

Boards

January 2024: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

Leading companies increasingly tie ESG/sustainability KPIs to performance measurement and compensation. 911爆料网 discusses ESG performance metrics and their business case, the landscape, and the risk of pushback.

Sustainability Management, Boards, Governance

The following worksheet has been compiled based on 叠厂搁’蝉 Supplier Code of Conduct Review tool. The best practices listed are compiled based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as leading guidance from the Responsible Business Alliance.

Supply Chain, Human Rights

911爆料网 shares its best practices for setting expectations of suppliers, including guidance for establishing policies, supplier codes of conduct, and supplier contracts. 

Supply Chain

Via a co-creation process in business activities related to climate action, companies can enable more effective climate solutions that address interconnected, systemic issues.

Climate Change, Inclusive Business

Explore ASD's progress on its approach to action, deepening engagement with supply chain players, and scaling impact on the ground.

Supply Chain, Collaboration

The sustainable product claims space is rapidly evolving, governed by voluntary and mandatory frameworks as well as changes in consumer and retailer awareness and preferences. 911爆料网 shares its perspective on navigating sustainability claims.

Sustainability Management

COP28 sends a signal to the world: that the shift to a clean energy economy must and will come. 911爆料网 shares key takeaways for companies from the conference.

Climate Change, Nature, Energy and Extractives

Drawing on 叠厂搁’蝉 expertise in incubating, designing, and facilitating collaborative initiatives, this report explores how business-led multi-stakeholder collaboration can help to advance the SDGs.

Collaboration

Exploring emerging issues through a Futures Wheel exercise can help your organization think through the varied, cascading, and sometimes surprising potential implications if an emerging issue of today were to become mainstream.

Sustainable Futures Lab, Emerging Issues

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the fifth edition of Insights+, the Climate Change team dives into the biggest topics at COP28: fossil fuel phase-out and the just transition, accountability for business commitments, the role of nature in achieving climate goals, and climate justice. Explore key recommendations for business leaders on how they can take action on these topics and what might be around the corner.

Climate Change, Nature

叠厂搁’蝉 Energy for a Just Transition collaboration explored the modern slavery risks associated with the energy transition and identified ways to address these risks.

Human Rights, Energy and Extractives, Collaboration

911爆料网's human rights impact assessment of the Lantern Program identifies and prioritizes human rights impacts and provides recommendations for action to address these impacts.

Human Rights, Technology

Explore 2023 polling research and recommendations in response to the ESG backlash in the US, with specific guidance on communications and terminology. This briefing introduces Freedom to Invest, a US campaign led by CERES rallying leaders across the business world to remind policymakers that the economy will be stronger and more resilient if businesses can make their own investment decisions.

ESG

International humanitarian law—which applies in situations of armed conflict and war—creates additional areas of heightened risk for companies operating in such contexts, necessitating a heightened level of due diligence. This short briefer provides an overview of these risks and actions to both prepare for and respond to crisis in a rights-respecting way.

Human Rights

What issues does the space industry need to address for its long-term viability? Explore the top strategic sustainability priorities for this industry.

Energy and Extractives

Challenges, recommendations, and best practices related to human rights abuse and remedy.

Human Rights

This report identifies human rights issues associated with the growing importance of AI technology in healthcare and provides recommendations to companies on addressing these impacts.

Human Rights, Technology, Healthcare

October 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

A collection of resources by the founding members of  collaborative initiative: Maersk, Danone, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Natura &Co, Nike, Starbucks, Unilever, Wipro and EDF.

Climate Change

ESG, Financial Services

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower the CSO to be a strategic C-Suite advisor by crystallizing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, enabling companies to elevate their strategic ambition and achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In this fourth edition of the Insights+, the Future of Reporting team highlights the latest developments in sustainability reporting, explores the implications of these developments across specific business functions, and hints at what might be around the corner.

Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights, ESG, Financial Services, Business Transformation

This FAQ sets out 叠厂搁’蝉 perspective on generative AI and its implications for ethics and human rights.

Human Rights, Technology

A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.

Human Rights

For companies designing and implementing a just, equitable and inclusive approach to net zero, the process is complex and requires difficult trade-offs. This guidance offers practical steps to help companies formulate a just transition plan.

Climate Change, Inclusive Business

This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting 911爆料网 to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.

Human Rights

Transform to Net Zero created the Supplier Transformation Framework to help companies identify and improve their suppliers’ climate performance.

Climate Change, Supply Chain

This FAQ sets out the 911爆料网 perspective on new laws and regulations relevant for our work. The field of just and sustainable business is entering a new era where actions that have previously been voluntary are becoming mandatory. We believe it is essential that the spirit of the law is achieved as well as its letter, that compliance supports ambitious human rights policies and sustainability goals, and that regulatory requirements are used to help create a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. 

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting

AI is driving change within the extractives sector, potentially leading to major human rights impacts throughout company operations, from geologic risk analysis to workplace management.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

Financial institutions are increasingly using AI technologies, from reducing operational costs to delivering customer service. Yet this evolution may bring human rights risks—as well as opportunities—that companies can’t ignore.

Financial Services, Human Rights

Understanding the foundational and key attributes of establishing and managing a responsible supply chain.

Supply Chain, Technology

June 2023: The exclusive quarterly member insights provides 911爆料网 members perspectives from our global team on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.

How to set issue-specific sustainability goals that are ambitious, achievable, and align with a high-growth or early-stage company’s overall strategy.

Technology, Sustainability Management

Updated, June 2023

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights

How high-growth and early-stage companies can establish and maintain strong oversight of sustainability initiatives that also cut across many different components of the business.

Technology, Governance

This FAQ sets out the 911爆料网 perspective on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the workplace. We believe that business is one of many actors critical for the creation of a world in which everyone—regardless of identity or background—has the opportunity for equal participation in all aspects of life, has fair access to resources, and can be confident that systems are operating in ways that improve the quality of life for all, and not a select few.

Inclusive Business

How high-growth and early-stage companies, newer to sustainability, can better understand complex ESG ratings and identify the ones to prioritize.

Technology, Sustainability Reporting

April 2023: This deck provides exclusive insights for 911爆料网 members. It shares our global teams’ perspective on sustainability issues and opportunities to help our member companies see a changing world more clearly.