Tuesday September 20, 2022
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
EDT
New York
The impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed. Businesses tackling climate change need to include a justice lens, and businesses grappling with social justice must contend with climate change. Join us for refreshments and role-playing to help you unlock your listening superpowers to work authentically with climate and social justice advocates. Two of BSR’s newest Directors—Jen Stark, co-lead of the new BSR Center for Business and Social Justice, and Deb Gallagher, Climate Director who facilitates the Transform to Net Zero group on climate justice—will introduce their work and offer interactive scenarios that participants can go back and use in their efforts to champion greater progress within their companies.
The world is fragmenting politically, economically, environmentally, and culturally. BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer shares the six interlocking factors that are accelerating fragmentation and why they're significant for business.
To achieve a just and clean energy transition, meaningful multi-stakeholder cooperation between business, governments, labor experts, and environmental justice groups is critical.
At a point when delays in climate action may lead to catastrophic and irreversible harm, companies must address climate misinformation urgently and decisively. Our new brief explores the specific challenges of moderating climate misinformation.
In response to the US Supreme Court ruling West Virginia v. EPA, BSR’s President and CEO Aron Cramer issues a statement on the dangers of the decision, its implications for the future, and why ambitious climate action is urgently needed.
Climate change affects each of us differently, and its impact will be exacerbated for communities that already face underlying socioeconomic inequalities or injustices. Listening, co-creating solutions, and elevating the voices of those most affected is paramount in advancing climate justice.
In support of the SEC’s current efforts to react to market demand for comprehensive climate-related financial disclosures, BSR responded to the latest public consultation on climate-related disclosure. We share our recommendations.
Despite national climate pledges, we urgently need to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C. While a growing number of businesses have targets in place to reduce their energy dependence and switch to clean energy sources, there is a blind spot in the race to zero: embedded carbon.
IPCC’s recently released Sixth Assessment Report about climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability shines a light on the threat climate change poses to human well-being and planetary health.
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