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
Climate Justice Resources
A Just Climate Platform, vision for an inclusive and just national climate agenda from A Just Climate
Business Fights Poverty: Climate Justice, an international program for business learning and connection.
On Injustice. Mustafa Santiago Ali talks with Naomi Hollard of Sunrise Movement about the power of cross-class and multiracial movements and the mandate for environmental justice.
“Movements for Climate Justice,” by Brian Tokar, 2013, Handbook of the Climate Movement, M. Doetz, ed..
“Declaration on Climate Justice” by the Mary Robinson Foundation
Gender, race, and perceived risk: The 'white male' effect by Melissa L. Finucane, Paul Slovic, Decision Research , 1201 Oak Street, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA,C.K. Mertz,James Flynn &Theresa A. Satterfield
Racial Justice
“I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet,” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Washington Post, June 3, 2020
Why Every Environmentalist Should be Anti-Racist, by Leah Thomas, Vogue, June 8, 2020
“How to Make Sure Racial Justice is Part of Climate Activism” by Natasha Pinon
“The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare,” The Guardian, January 9, 2020
“Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat” by Mary Annaïse Heglar (people of color know about building movements, about courage, about survival)
Melissa Bradley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgAwr5CUwWw
See additional articles from a B Lab employee “brown bag” on environmental racism (here)
Seja Antirracista: https://www.sejaantirracista.org/
Indigenous Voices
UN statement on the impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples
The Amazon is on fire - Indigenous Rights could help put it out . Gives a good view of the intersection of indigenous rights and climate crisis, from Canadian journalist Naomi Klein
COP25 Recap from Indigenous Climate Action group
Gender & Climate
How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming, TED talk by Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown (13 mins)
Introduction to Gender & Climate, UNFCCC
Women, girls, and non-binary leaders are demonstrating the kind of leadership our world so badly needs by Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown
Youth Voices
Greta Thunberg’s UNCOP25 remarks
Video interview of Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg, with Xiye Bastida and other youth (starts around 22:00 with Greta/Naomi at 42:00)
Climate Adaptation & Resilience
GAO-20-127, Climate Resilience: A Strategic Investment Approach for High-Priority Projects Could Help Target Federal Resources - (start with the highlights page if you are limited for time) Even though the US Government is not a Certified B Corp priority, this identifies gaps in climate resilience for a major institution and benefits to filling them.
Fourth National Climate Assessment You can do word searches to find direct connections between climate resilience and inequality, poverty, environment, communities and jobs.
Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Review with Evidence from the Land-Use Sectors (2018) This connects knowledge about greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation using one sector as an example.
For B Corps
B Corp Climate Collective on the B HivE→
The B Hive is for employees of B Corps, and is a forum for those passionate about doing our part to address the climate emergency, including leaders engaged in the B Corp Climate Collective (and its associated Action Groups). We use this forum to share articles, commitments, questions, and opportunities and to encourage and challenge one another along this arduous journey to a zero carbon economy.
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.
A Climate Action Offset Guide for B Corps→
Created by B Corps in the US & Canada BCCC. This guide is for B Corps who have scrutinized whether, and subsequently decided that, offsets play a role in the course they will chart to reach Net Zero by 2030. This guide invites all B Corps to learn what an offset is, the role offsets can play in their path to net zero, and what to consider when offsetting.
Net Zero 2030 Sharing Toolkit→
B Corps committed to Net Zero 2030 can use this toolkit of sample social images, press releases, advertisements and more to share the news with their followers and media outlets.
