Climate Justice Tools and Resources for Your Business
B The Change Weekly: April 7, 2023
B The Change Weekly provides the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The weekly newsletter features a 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:
Earth Month brings a renewed focus to the intersecting global crises of climate change and social justice, which present opportunities and threats to businesses and organizations around the world. In April and throughout the year, addressing climate justice is no small feat. It requires businesses to reconsider longstanding practices and tackle systemic barriers in partnership with the most affected communities — learning and unlearning along the way.
A new climate justice toolkit from B Lab U.S. & Canada offers action-oriented resources for Certified B Corporations and other organizations exploring how to create a more resilient future for all people and the planet. Whether they’re corporations looking to clean up their environmental act or tech businesses seeking better sustainability, all companies can take a look inward and consider how to improve their impact on the world that surrounds them.
A Climate Justice Toolkit for Business
A new climate justice toolkit from B Lab U.S. & Canada offers action-oriented resources to help organizations collaborate on climate solutions that are inclusive, equitable, and regenerative. The cornerstone of the climate justice toolkit is a monthlong Climate Justice Reflection Challenge to help companies reshape policies and products and end extractive practices.
How Regulations Can Drive Corporate Climate Action
Companies that violate pollution regulations face hefty fines and can face another financial hit: losing investors. In this article from the Network for Business Sustainability, Researcher Simon Xu uncovers two promising signs for climate action: investors are increasingly managing their portfolios to address climate change risk, and regulators can use fines to motivate companies to help change corporate behavior.
Why Eco-Friendly Initiatives Are Important in the Tech Industry
As a global leader in the semiconductor industry, Brewer Science made it a mission to address the company’s environmental impact. To help other tech companies looking to step up their climate impact, the business outlines how B Corp Certification and a stakeholder mindset can improve sustainability and long-term performance.
Stay in the Know
Here’s your chance to catch up on recent articles:
- A Climate Justice Toolkit for Business: Action-Oriented Resources to Help Businesses Address Climate Change and Social Justice
- Creating Fashion with a Community Connection: Part 2: How IMPT! Uses Product Design and Development for Relevance and Impact
- A Q&A on Strategies to Find Aligned Impact Investors: Growing a Social Enterprise with Mission-Aligned Fundraising
- How Breaking Environmental Regulations Can Hurt Company Stock Price: Research Finds That Polluting Companies Lose Investors After Violating Regulations
- Why Eco-Friendly Initiatives Are Important in the Tech Industry: How a Stakeholder Mindset and Certification Programs Can Help Build More Sustainable Businesses
B The Change gathers and shares the voices from within the movement of people using business as a force for good and the community of Certified B Corporations. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the nonprofit B Lab.
