Updates & Insights

B Lab launches the B Corp Month 'Gen B' campaign celebrating the collective impact of nearly 10,000 Certified B Corporations™ that use business as a force for good.

B Lab’s award-winning podcast Forces For Good launches its third season, examining what constitutes a quality job in today's rapidly evolving workplace.

B Corp Certification is now on Travalyst's first-ever list of sustainability certifications, standards, and schemes compliant with its discerning criteria.

At a time when businesses are increasingly seen as agents of change, B Lab shares the findings from its latest public consultation revealing how community feedback is shaping the new standards for B Corps and businesses looking to be a force for good.

Over 8,000 B Corp Certified businesses celebrate B Corp Month 2024 around the globe by sharing how they move forward together to pave the way for better business.

B Lab launches an anticipated public comment period on the draft standards for B Corp Certification, inviting feedback through a new, interactive website from today through 26 March 2024.

As leaders from across the world gather at COP28, a call to action for all companies to rethink the way they do business, co-signed by members of B Movement Builders.

Non-profits B Lab Global and the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), today announced the intent to collaborate on establishing the B Lab & CIIP Centre of Excellence for Asia (the “Centre”).

A report released today by B Lab suggests that draft new standards for B Corp certified companies, currently in development, represent an ambitious yet attainable goal for business leaders looking to be a force for good.

The collaboration is in pursuit of their shared objective of halving global GHG emissions by 2030, and achieving net zero emissions by mid-century at the latest, in order to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

This commitment will unlock B Lab Global's ability to scale at a time of unprecedented interest in its B Corp Certification.

Throughout March, B Corps demonstrate what’s possible when businesses take action to transform the economic system

B Lab Global is pleased to announce the appointments of Clay Brown as Head of Standards, Certification & Product Delivery and Anand Sankaran as Head of Finance & Administration.

The series will take a hard look at how businesses are helping to solve the biggest social and environmental challenges of our time.

Best for the World identifies the B Corps whose verified B Impact Scores in the five impact areas evaluated in the B Impact Assessment — community, customers, environment, governance, and workers — rank in the top 5% of all B Corps in their size group.

Allen’s appointment advances nonprofit’s work building a stakeholder-driven economy

Genashtim is providing B Lab with additional verification capacity to support the growing number of applications in the B Corp Certification process.

B Lab and the Finding Humanity podcast launch a special series that explores how businesses can help solve our greatest societal challenges.

B Lab and Fairtrade, the world’s most recognized label for social justice and sustainability are set to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing the SDGs.

Despite declarations of progress, business action and performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not strategic or bold enough to achieve them by 2030.

B Lab's Best for the World recognizes the B Corps globally whose scores rank in the top five percent of their company size track across one or more of the five impact areas on the B Impact Assessment.

B Lab is pleased to announce that Jessica Yinka Thomas, Kaye Materake, Mahlet Getachew, and Dan Osusky have been appointed by B Lab’s Board of Directors to join B Lab’s main Standards Advisory Council. 

B Lab is recognized at Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards, honoring businesses, policies, projects, and concepts engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation on health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

B Lab and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), two standards-based organizations, have teamed up to update upon an existing alignment between their impact measurement and management tools, the B Impact Assessment (BIA) and IRIS+.

Two of the leading global enablers for environmental, social and governance impact management and disclosure have joined forces to help organizations get more out of their reporting and assessment tools.

The Climate Justice Playbook for Business V1.0 provides insights, guidance, and case studies of companies that are seeking to advance climate justice in their operations, supply chains, and in the communities they impact.

B Lab and YPO, the global leadership community of more than 29,000 chief executives in over 140 countries, are partnering to engage and combine their resources, knowledge, and networks.

Inspired by the leadership of the global Certified B Corporation community, B Movement Builders is a coalition of purpose-driven, multinational, publicly-traded companies with a vision of transforming the global economy.

Forty leading global organizations have united to launch the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, pooling knowledge and responses to alleviate suffering and advance new models of change for a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world.

In recognition of 14 years of impact, innovation, and movement building, B Lab has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2020, landing at #5 in the Not-for-Profit sector list.

Developed by B Lab and the UN Global Compact, the SDG Action Manager brings together B Lab’s B Impact Assessment, the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Over 500 companies are publicly committing to accelerate the reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions to reach a 1.5 degree trajectory leading to net zero by the year 2030—20 years ahead of the 2050 targets set in the Paris Agreement.

A new online platform under development this year will leverage the B Impact Assessment to allow companies around the globe to manage their impact through performance on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).