European fashion B Corps are reshaping the industry by embracing circularity, worker well-being, material innovation, and transparent supply chains. Their commitment to accountability and continuous improvement shows how fashion can evolve into a more responsible sector.
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
November 10th, 2025 – As world leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders gather in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, new research from B Lab reveals that scaling the current practices of Certified B Corporations across the economy could reduce global warming by 0.5°C by 2100, prevent 600,000 deaths from extreme heat, and lower extinction risk for thousands of species.
The new whitepaper, released today by B Lab, demonstrates that more than 10,000 B Corps are leading the way in adopting practices across circularity, environmental stewardship, and climate action, and achieving measurably better outcomes than their peers.
Each June, the small island of Bornholm transforms into Denmark’s largest gathering for democracy, values, and political dialogue: Folkemødet. This year, the Nordic B Corp community showed up in a different way: By sea.
Together with B Corps, allies and friends, B Lab Nordics boarded the historic schooner Mira and sailed to Bornholm. We wanted to bring our message into the heart of national debate: that business can, and must, be a force for good.
A call to policymakers: Recognize businesses driving change
At Folkemødet, many conversations revolve around the future of society, climate, and economy.We were there to add a clear voice:
Yes, we believe in triple bottom lines where social and environmental responsibility stands alongside financial health.
And yes, regulation matters but we think those not taking responsibility should carry the documentation burden, not the ones already leading the way.
Voluntary standards like the B Corp Certification show what’s possible. But we need political will, incentives, and frameworks to help make good business the norm, not the exception.
Impact on board
Our schooner became a space for a packed Friday program with events centred around redefining the role of business in society:
Social run and ocean dip with our friends from Meyers
Talk on Good Money with Merkur Andelskasse, Planetary Impact Ventures, and Klimate
Imagination workshop with MäRK Cph
Green transition panel featuring voices from Rudolph Care, Sinatur, Plandent, Meyers, and Round
Treasure hunt for the sustainable bottom line with ESG4Business
It was personal. It was political. It was about redefining the role of business in society.
This is just the beginning
We left Bornholm with stronger connections, new allies, and a shared sense that the B Corp movement belongs in every conversation about the future. We’re not here to do business as usual. We’re here to help shift the entire system.
Thank you to everyone who came aboard (literally and figuratively).
Let’s keep the wind in our sails.
The B Lab Global Annual Report 2024 is here—our year-in-review of the impacts, achievements, and improvements undertaken by our global movement.
Discover our interactive Annual Report and get to know the impacts, achievements, and improvements undertaken by our global movement in 2024.
At ChangeNOW 2025, B Lab Global shares five bold calls to action for business and policy leaders ready to help drive a just, inclusive, and regenerative economy.
The Foundation Requirements set the baseline for what it means to be a B Corp. From eligibility to stakeholder governance, Grace Son explains how these requirements lay the groundwork for credible, accountable, and values-driven businesses.
From inclusive hiring to supplier diversity, advancing Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) helps build a more equitable economy. Bernard Gouw shares how B Lab’s new standards support companies in breaking down systemic barriers.
B Lab’s new Human Rights standards align with the UN Guiding Principles, urging companies to prevent harm across their operations and value chains. In this blog, Bernard Gouw explains why this shift matters and where businesses can start.
As the climate crisis intensifies, businesses have a critical role to play. Brigitta Nemes shares how B Lab’s new standards raise the bar on Climate Action—calling for credible, measurable steps toward a net-zero, 1.5°C-aligned future.
