The current economic and environmental climate offers a host of challenges to businesses of all types, but perhaps none more so than organizations like Business for Social Responsibility, dedicated to the growth of socially and environmentally beneficial corporations.

With the publication of its second annual report, BSR has laid out those challenges, but also focuses on the organization's impacts in the past year, and its goals for the next.

"This Report arrives in a world that looks very different than it did one year ago," BSR president and CEO Aron Cramer writes in the introduction to the report. "Business is facing a trio of crises: the sharp global recession; increasing evidence of natural resource constraints, especially related to accelerating climate change; and the loss of trust in the private sector. These developments reinforce the importance of innovative, sustainable business practices that lead the transition to a low-carbon economy, promote economic development, and rebuild trust in business."

Read the complete article here:

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2009/07/08/bsr-report

Direct link to the report: http://bsr.org/about/bsr-report.cfm

Our opinion:

This is an interesting report. Especially as it is one of the first reports from a think tank that takes the current financial crisis into account. Definately worth a read.

Source: GreenBiz.com