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What a year! ..and not a small one for change.

As the year draws to an end, at B Lab Nordics, we are counting our blessings and reflecting on 2025.

And what a year it has been!

 

With the launch of our new Standards for business impact in April, B Lab took a huge leap forward in raising the bar for what it means to be a good business in today’s world – and make B Corp certification ready for upcoming EU regulation. We plough on, even though the EU reduces scope. Since April, B Lab has been working out all of the changes required to every single process, from scoping to pricing and verification. Causing an unusually heavy workload for our small, but dedicated B Lab Nordics team (we won’t bore you with the details) to help transition our Nordic B Corp community safely to B Lab’s new  Standards. We know there have been many changes, updates (and emails!) for you to navigate and digest. We have found ourselves pendulating between excitement and exhaustion.

And when the change becomes a bit too heavy, we remind each other that it’s not just about meeting a standard – it’s about taking responsibility, driving progress, and shaping a future where business helps restore and protect the planet. That’s also why we are so grateful for your patience and willingness to rise to the challenge: More than 200 Nordic companies are already engaging with B Lab’s new Standards’ self assessment

Even with all of these changes going on behind and on the scene, we managed to onboard an impressive 45 (so far!) new B Corps to our Nordic B Corp community – now counting 185 B Corps in the Nordics. We managed to keep up the rhythm with B Keeper meetings, Onboarding events and CEO meetings, Recertification webinars, Become a B Corp webinars and Open Office hours.

Although some of our events are necessarily online, we believe strongly in the power of physical, embodied connections, and went to Finland for Protect our Winters, to Norway for Travel Better Together, and to Sweden for a UN Global Compact event as well as a Stockholm B Corp gathering. Plus, we sailed to Folkemødet in Denmark with 10 B Corps. And in September, we hosted the biggest Nordic B Corp event to date. Nordic B Together 2025 gathered more than 100 B Corp participants from across the Nordics for a full day in Copenhagen to learn from each other and mobilize around the need for collective action.

More than 16,000 people work at a Nordic B Corp. Can you imagine? Together we hold a lot of power to change the status quo. Especially if we dare to use our voice and share our message to the world.

We pushed this agenda with a new website, and a Meet the B Corps-series to showcase our Nordic B Corps. Members of our Nordic B Corp community also signed B Lab’s letter to the COP30 leaders, urging governments to require credible climate action, as well as embed stakeholder governance into law, and make human rights and environmental due-diligence mandatory for all companies, everywhere.

2025 has been filled with action-oriented energy, getting things done, accomplishing much more than we would have thought possible. And we hope that even if 2026 will still require a lot of that energy, there will also be time for deeper reflection and connection, for enabling and mobilizing the B Corp community, and for acknowledging that any real systems change needs to start from within. Not just for our team, but for all of us. Directing our attention and presence, knowing that we have enough and are enough as we are, can help us resist the logic of the old world and access the future as it emerges. An economy of sufficiency, community and care for every living thing.

To the Nordic B Corp community: Thank you. You are the ones moving things forward.

With that, may you have a wonderful holiday season, and may the force for good be with you.

 

Gitte and the team of B Lab Nordics

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