Guides, stories and insights on BRSR and BRSR Core, carbon accounting, assurance and the frameworks around them — sourced, dated and written to be useful.
BRSR Core is a set of key BRSR indicators under nine attributes — GHG, water and energy footprints, circularity, employee wellbeing and safety, gender diversity, inclusive development, fairness to customers and suppliers, and openness of business — that listed companies must have independently assessed or assured. It applies to the top 500 for FY 2025-26 and the top 1,000 from FY 2026-27.
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Reliable ESG data comes from a simple design decided before collection starts — which indicator, at which site, how often, in what unit, entered by whom, approved by whom, with what evidence. For suppliers, ask only the partners that matter (BRSR's 2% rule is a good start), ask for little, make answering easy, and record how good each answer is.
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Illustrative scenario
An invented example of how an auto-components maker in the top 250 might run its first supplier data request — choosing 11 value chain partners under BRSR's 2% rule plus the suppliers behind its Scope 3 hotspots, asking for four things, following up, allocating the answers and scoring their quality. The company, suppliers and figures are invented to show the steps.
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A walkthrough around your sites, frameworks and deadlines — with the evidence and approvals behind every figure.