Channeling the B Corp Community to Create Environmental and Social Benefit
As the world grapples with a global pandemic, systemic racism, gross human inequality, and climate change, B Lab U.S. & Canada is leaning into nearly 15 years of experience to realize its vision of an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all people and the planet.
During its recent State of the B event, leaders from B Lab U.S. & Canada (a regional partner of B Lab Global) shared how the nonprofit organization will mobilize the collective impact of businesses in the Certified B Corporation community in pursuit of that vision. The almost 4,000 B Corps around the world…
B The Change Weekly: June 4, 2021
Delivered on Fridays, B The Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B The Change team alongside insight and context on the stories we share here on Medium. Below is our latest roundup. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today. Now on to the good stuff:
“Carbon-based energy companies would come into communities and offer local government and policymakers jobs, prosperity, and wealth for their communities. In reality, distant stakeholders benefited…
B Corps Share How They Are Reducing Carbon Emissions and Pursuing Climate Justice
In recent years the global climate crisis has grown beyond the realm of concerned environmental advocates, becoming a point of emphasis for business leaders, investors, policymakers, and others who realize the current and impending dangers to the planet, its people, and other living creatures.
Among those business leaders actively working for climate solutions are nearly 900 Certified B Corporations that have committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2030, a historic goal in terms of the number of companies and the accelerated trajectory of their commitment. As shared on the B Corp Climate Collective website, companies making this commitment are…
B The Change Weekly: May 28, 2021
Delivered on Fridays, B The Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B The Change team alongside insight and context on the stories we share here on Medium. Below is our latest roundup. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today. Now on to the good stuff:
When businesses broaden their positive impact beyond bottom-line concerns, they also broaden the scope of their challenges. …
B Corps Pursue Climate Action That Incorporates Climate Justice
Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3? Offsets? Carbon removal projects?
Business leaders looking to address their company’s carbon emissions while committing to net zero by 2030 have a fairly steep learning curve that includes new terminology and, yes, some science. Leaders in the Certified B Corporation community can turn to resources from the B Corp Climate Collective for guidance and reach out to peers already on this journey for advice and information.
As shared on the B Corp Climate Collective website, B Corps that commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2030 are expected to make a public pledge that…
B The Change Weekly: May 21, 2021
Delivered on Fridays, B The Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B The Change team alongside insight and context on the stories we share here on Medium. Below is our latest roundup. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today. Now on to the good stuff:
Maps make a difference. They’re a crucial tool for travel, especially when we’re on unfamiliar turf and unsure of which way to go.
Certified B…
Businesses Take Climate Action Now — Individually and Collectively — to Protect Planet and People for the Future
Amid an accelerating drumbeat of environmental and social crises, more than 500 Certified B Corporations declared a climate emergency in December 2019 as part of their commitment to Net Zero 2030. Hundreds more have joined them since, as the crises and harm to the planet and its inhabitants have continued: the Australian bushfires of late 2019/early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic and societal upheavals, and the severe winter weather in 2020 that in part led to deadly power outages in Texas.
More and more B Corps are joining the call to take action on environmental and social justice…
B The Change Weekly: May 14, 2021
Delivered on Fridays, B The Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B The Change team alongside insight and context on the stories we share here on Medium. Below is our latest roundup. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today. Now on to the good stuff:
The Earth doesn’t have alarm bells. But it has been showing signs and sending signals of a climate in crisis in recent years (and days)…
How B Corps Can Address and Reduce Carbon Emission Sources While Centering Their Work in Climate Justice
Businesses in the Certified B Corporation community benefit from collaboration, sharing best practices as well as challenges involved with operating in the interest of all stakeholders. B Corps are also known for innovations in climate action that reduce their environmental impact, put people at the center of climate action, and, increasingly, actually benefit the planet.
As climate action leaders in the business community, more than 500 B Corps in 2019 committed to net zero by 2030, publicly promising to accelerate the reduction of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Hundreds more have since joined them, both within and outside the B…
B The Change Weekly: May 7, 2021
Delivered on Fridays, B The Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B The Change team alongside insight and context on the stories we share here on Medium. Below is our latest roundup. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today. Now on to the good stuff:
Becoming a Certified B Corporation involves measuring, considering, and reporting impact on a range of stakeholders — and then working to improve and amplify that…
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