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Yesterday, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, in her role as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Financial Health, visited RISE partner factory PT Glory Industrial Semarang in Indonesia. Learn more below on the personal financial journeys workers shared as a result of their RISE financial health training. The conversations highlighted why workers are central to global financial health policy and how business collaboration across supply chains is key to progress, as financial health underpins both worker well-being and business resilience. 

#COP30 demonstrated that, despite significant headwinds, multilateralism and momentum for climate action plan implementation endures. Businesses showed up to support the process at pre-COP convenings in São Paolo and in Belém, with engagement surpassing last year’s levels in Baku. Companies based in the U.S. maintained their strong showing amid challenging policy dynamics.    The COP system’s constraints were also clear, reflected in the gap between slow, difficult negotiations and ongoing climate transition work already underway in the real economy:    ⚠️ The negotiation outcome is a compromise that does not adequately address the current emissions and ambition gap, despite constructive Summit discussions.  ⚠️ The absence of clear language and new roadmaps on fossil fuels and deforestation in the final text falls short of what is needed to mitigate climate change and help communities adapt to its impacts.     Positive highlights:    ✅ Progress was made on adaptation finance and just transition, with growing momentum on the interconnectivity of climate, nature, and people.    ✅ The critical relationship between climate change and trade also appeared on the agenda for the first time—crucial for ensuring more alignment, and less fragmentation on mitigation efforts. ✅ The Presidency’s Global Climate Action Agenda showcased over 480 initiatives demonstrating the climate transition already underway: https://lnkd.in/e6uNxRjT      ✅ 100+ companies advocated for a fossil fuel transition roadmap: https://lnkd.in/ehYXmA97    ✅ Competitiveness and resilience remained a priority, as companies and investors increasingly recognize that business opportunity depends on getting the transition right.     ✅ The commitment by a coalition of willing Parties to develop new roadmaps outside the formal COP process is welcome, but the next steps will determine whether it is implementable.    What’s next? BSR encourages continued company action which enables the climate transition: scaling investment and building concrete mechanisms for business and governments to work together on unlocking the opportunities offered by an effective climate and nature transition.    Giulio Berruti Laura Donnelly Kindra Mohr, Esq.  #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation #SustainableBusiness

Join us on December 4th for an inside look at how Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) is scaling collaborative action toward a palm oil supply chain that upholds No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation principles and supports local livelihoods.     Since 2019, ASD has brought together 40+ companies to drive sustainable production and sourcing of palm and palm kernel oil derivatives—transforming members’ supply chains through increased transparency, deeper engagement on human rights, smallholder inclusion, and early risk identification.    During this session, we’ll explore:    🌴 How ASD members are turning collective ambition into measurable transformation, and ways for companies to get involved    🌴 Key lessons learned in 2025 on advancing transparency, managing risks and grievances, and sourcing responsibly in a changing landscape     🌴 ASD’s 2026 roadmap and priorities, including enhanced trader engagement, a focus on interoperability, and strategy evolutions   Register here:   🌏 Asia and Europe: https://lnkd.in/e7rEveMV  🌎 Americas and Europe: https://lnkd.in/e4raJPnB     Ricki Berkenfeld Alexandra Kolev Lenaïg Benjamin Omar Mouhdi     #SustainablePalm #PalmDerivatives #NDPE #CollectiveImpact #SupplyChain #SustainableBusiness

As 2025 comes to a close, what themes, challenges, and opportunities will define the year ahead for sustainable business? Join BSR and Morrison Foerster on December 4th for the next episode of our conversation series, “Looking Ahead: What’s Next for Responsible Business in 2026.”  Aron Cramer, BSR’s President and CEO, and Susan Mac Cormac, MoFo’s co-chair of Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility and Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practices, will explore: 👉 Defining trends of 2025, along with emerging risks and opportunities 👉 How companies can drive measurable impact amid growing scrutiny and regulatory complexity 👉 The evolving interplay among policy, capital, and technology Register here: https://lnkd.in/ezeYmrPB

Meaningful stakeholder engagement helps companies anticipate risks and identify opportunities for resilience and growth. Yet too often, engagement is reactive—driven by crises or compliance requirements—and undermined by internal fragmentation across functions.  How can companies overcome common internal barriers to meaningful engagement? BSR shares ways to develop alignment within the company ahead of stakeholder engagement:     ✅ Establish an overarching vision  ✅ Identify internal ownership  ✅ Shift from ad hoc to ongoing engagement  ✅ Balance transparency and legal risk    Kathryn Doyle, Elisa Magalhães, and Jenna Kowalevsky, MBA share more on building foundations for inclusive, effective stakeholder engagement: https://lnkd.in/eBXiTJX8 #StakeholderEngagement #BizHumanRights #SustainableBusiness #MSE 

Financial institutions have a critical role to play in the global shift to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and rights-respecting economy. With influence across industries, they are uniquely positioned to promote responsible business conduct throughout the value chain. Learn how banks, investors, and insurers, are embedding human rights due diligence into their governance frameworks, operational processes, and financing activities in six new case studies published by BSR, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Shift Project. Focusing on the downstream value chain, where the most significant impacts typically occur, the compendium highlights how financial institutions identify, assess, and address actual and potential adverse human rights impacts associated with their corporate clients, portfolio companies, and asset managers.  🔎 Explore emerging good practices for integrating human rights considerations across the financial sector’s downstream value chain: https://lnkd.in/ep7gr9tp   Paloma Muñoz Quick Kindra Mohr, Esq. Ioana Tuta Signe Andreasen Lysgaard Ashleigh Owens Jonathan Milläng #HRDD #FinancialServices #SustainableBusiness #SustainableFinance

BSR’s Global Lead on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, Claudio Formisano, highlights key takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) Summit, including new collaborative tools, initiatives, and frameworks transforming the fight against modern slavery. 💡 Explore 2025 TAT Summit outcomes: https://lnkd.in/ekyd_GXC #TechAgainstTrafficking #BizHumanRights #TechForGood #ForcedLabor #AI

Earlier this month, we cohosted the fourth annual Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) Summit with Microsoft, bringing together nearly 200 technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and survivor advocates to explore how innovative, responsibly deployed technology can help combat modern slavery: https://lnkd.in/ekyd_GXC Summit highlights: 🌐 In her keynote speech, the Rt Hon the Baroness May of Maidenhead, Theresa May, underscored the vital role of business in driving change, urging companies to leverage their commercial power to advocate for systemic improvements, and partner with governments to strengthen anti-trafficking mechanisms and public justice systems. 🌐 TAT launched the Lived Experience Consultation Group in partnership with Survivor Alliance, which will enable leading tech companies to engage survivor leaders directly and apply their insights to business practices. 🌐 While the summit demonstrated that human rights considerations are being increasingly embedded into the foundation of technology and governance, participants called for global data standards on forced labor, a common language to address online trafficking, and stronger collaboration to scale proven anti-trafficking technologies. In our latest blog, BSR’s Lale Tekişalp, Kelly Dudine, Alice Pease, and Claudio Formisano share summit outcomes across the thematic tracks of tech innovation, online trafficking, and supply chain data. #techagainsttrafficking #bizhumanrights #modernslavery #forcedlabor #supplychainmanagement

BSR is a proud signatory of the We Mean Business Coalition #COP30 Statement calling on world leaders to commit to a clear roadmap that outlines the shift away from fossil fuels toward clean electrification and renewables. Businesses are already making decisions based on their ability to secure clean power, modernize operations, and protect themselves from fossil fuel volatility. By setting a coherent, long-term direction, governments can use this moment to accelerate action, drive investment, and advance a just energy transition well beyond COP30. ➡️ Read the statement: https://lnkd.in/ehYXmA97  #JobsSecurityGrowth #WMBC #Mutirão

10 years after its adoption, how has the Paris Agreement shaped global climate action and mitigation policy? In its new report, the OECD - OCDE shares insights from over 250 climate experts across more than 60 countries and examines counterfactual scenarios of what the world would look like today without the global agreement.     🔗 Read the full report to learn more about barriers hindering countries' progress on climate change mitigation and key drivers that can accelerate implementation: https://lnkd.in/dVEG6VMD  Giulio Berruti #ClimateAction #NetZero #ClimateMitigation  #ParisAgreement