From B Corp’s inception until 2025, certification has operated as a scored system requiring companies to achieve 80 points. From 2026 onwards, it’s transitioning to a set of minimum requirements that will still be tailored to your company but provide greater consistency and clarity about what it means to be a B Corp. This ensures B Corps are taking meaningful action on the most material social and environmental topics for their industry and society, while requiring companies to maintain and improve upon their performance with each recertification cycle.

The changes to the B Corp standards are designed to fit your business better. They aim to be:

• Holistic: Covering the breadth of the organisation, considering all stakeholders and materiality.
• Tailored: Tracks determined by size and sector, with further size brackets introduced.
• Compliant: With increasing regulation such as Green Claims and Empowering Consumer Directives.
• Interoperable: Aligned with CSRD, IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, GRI.
• Clear & Transparent: On what it means to be a B Corp, and a company taking meaningful and tangible action. With deeper guidance on the standards, their definitions and required performance.

Saving priceless time and mental bandwidth, and provide a more comprehensive insight into your organisation’s specific performance goals.

Yes, over 300,000 companies are using the B Corp framework to measure their impact. Certification is a choice that helps keep you accountable and verifies your performance – communicating to stakeholders that you’ve been validated to the highest standard. There’s significant value in using the framework to understand your impact and inspire your sustainability strategy, ensuring you’re incorporating best practices as defined by B Lab and their team of experts.