Spotlight: B Corp & BCCC Original Resources
The Climate Justice Playbook for Business: How to centre climate action in Climate Justice created by the B Corp Climate Collective, B Lab, the COP26 Climate Champions Team, Provoc, and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford
How to Declare a Climate Emergency: A Playbook for Business created by B Lab UK
How to get to Net Zero: A Simple Guide for SMEs created by B Corps in the UK BCCC
B Corp Climate Leadership: Carbon Footprint Calculation & Reduction Guide created by B Corps in the Climate Action Group of the US & Canada BCCC
A Climate Action Offset Guide for B Corps created by B Corps in the Climate Action Group of the US & Canada BCCC
Webinar on Greenhouse Gas Baselining 101 video and presentation slides from the Climate Action Group of the US & Canada BCCC
The free tool recommended in this presentation is the Quantis evaluator which you can find here to calculate your Scopes 1-3 emissions. Here is a presentation on using the Quantis tool in particular.
B Engaged Climate Action Deck: Engaging Employees on Climate Change created by B Corps in the US & Canada BCCC. This modular slide deck offers tools and approaches for activating employees to engage more deeply around climate activism and seeks to raise awareness at the employee level about individual actions and opportunities for affecting change. You’ll be prompted to fill out a simple form before accessing the deck.
Sustainable Packaging Toolkit created by natural products B Corps in the US & Canada BCCC
B Corp Climate Strike Mobilization Toolkit created by B Corps in the US & Canada BCCC
Earth Day 2020 - B Corp Mobilization Toolkit created by B Corps in the US & Canada BCCC
B Corp Climate Collective YouTube playlist - webinars, speeches and other informative videos from the BCCC and partners
Climate Action Fundamentals
U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #13: Climate Action (10 min read)
Carbon Footprinting Guide via Carbon Trust
The Paris Agreement - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
What is “Net Zero”?
Net Zero by 2030 DEFINITION OF TERMS from B Lab and B Corp Standards Trust’s Net Zero by 2030
IPCC Glossary
Climate Action Tools & Resources
The B Corp Climate Collective and B Lab are thrilled to be working with several partners in curating and aggregating the best tools available to aid companies on their net zero journey:
1.5°C Business Playbook: Produced by the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero, this foundational playbook is made to prepare ALL businesses for the fastest economic transition in history, halving emissions by 2030. It contains solid guidelines for companies of all sizes to set targets, strategy and actions. Net Zero by 2030 committed B Corps are committed to decarbonizing even faster than what’s prescribed in this playbook, but the principles and practices are still the same.
SME Climate Hub: one-stop-shop for small and medium-sized businesses to make a climate commitment and take concrete climate action. An initiative of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, the We Mean Business coalition and the Race to Zero
Net Zero Climate Aggregator: this tool connects users with research and tools on setting and achieving their net zero climate commitments across sectors and policy landscapes. Informed by Oxford Net Zero Climate Research and Engagement Team and in allyship with the SME Climate Hub partners and leading global scientists.
How to Declare a Climate Emergency: A Playbook for Business created by B Lab UK
“How to get to Net Zero: A Simple Guide for SMEs” created by B Corps in the UK BCCC
B Corp Climate Leadership: Carbon Footprint Calculation & Reduction Guide created by B Corps in the Climate Action Group of the US/Can BCCC
B Engaged Climate Action Deck: Engaging Employees on Climate Change created by B Corps in the US/Can BCCC. This modular slide deck offers tools and approaches for activating employees to engage more deeply around climate activism and seeks to raise awareness at the employee level about individual actions and opportunities for affecting change. You’ll be prompted to fill out a simple form before accessing the deck.
Business Emissions Evaluator (BEE) from The Change Climate Project
Calculate Your Carbon Footprint from The Nature Conservancy
Sustainable Packaging Toolkit created by natural products B Corp brands in the US/Can BCCC
Climate Advocacy & Activism Resources
Why CEOs Should Speak Out on Climate by Protect Our Winters
B Corp Climate Strike Mobilization Toolkit created by B Corps in the US and Canada
Earth Day 2020 - B Corp Mobilization Toolkit created by B Corps in the US/Can BCCC
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Ready for 100 a partnership between Sierra Club and Seventh Generation
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Report: How Businesses Are Addressing Climate Change via B Lab
What Does "Net-Zero Emissions" Mean? from World Resources Institute
From Shareholder Primacy to Stakeholder Capitalism: a Policy Agenda for Systems Change by B Lab
Greta Thunberg Special Address, Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum 2019
Climate Collaborative’s 9 Actions (10 min read)
“Larry Fink, Tucker Carlson, David Brooks And The Call For A Capitalist Reformation,” by Jay Coen Gilbert, Forbes, January 24, 2019 (10 min read plus links)
“Can business save the world from climate change?” by Bianca Nogrady, Ensia, August 15, 2017 (5 min read)
Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability
Company-level Action: Regenerative Organic Certification (led by Dr. Bronner’s, Patagonia, and Rodale Institute)
Advocacy: Patagonia’s Benefit Corp Stakeholder-based Governance and its impact on climate and the environment
Global Climate Action ecosystem map by Grady Britton (a B Corp)
The B Team and Ceres Introduce New Primer For Building Climate Competent Boards (10 min read)
Organizations Fighting Climate Change: A Quick Guide by Thalas Dantas, Medium, October 9, 2018 (7 min read)
Excerpt from Laudato Si’, Encyclical Letter of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home
“The Land Ethic” by Aldo Leopold (1949) - a theoretical framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land.
Man by Steve Cutts (3 min video)
Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges - 25 min video by Otto Scharmer
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
All We Can Save by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and Dr. Ayana Johnson
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane
A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life, by Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman, John Fullerton
General Tools & Resources to Improve Your Company’s Impacts
B Impact Assessment: Over 100,000 businesses around the world are using this free, confidential, online assessment to measure, compare, and improve their company’s impacts. This Assessment forms the backbone of the B Corp Certification, but any company can use it.
SDG Action Manager: Developed by B Lab in collaboration with the UN Global Compact, this free, online impact management solution enables businesses worldwide to set goals & track progress against the global Sustainable Development Goals. The module on SDG13 has a specific focus on climate action.
Best Practice Resources from the B Impact Assessment via B Lab