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Obtaining a B Corp label is essential to establishing a committed corporate position. Nevertheless, the certification process can be particularly long and complex.
Fortunately, there is a way to make it easier for businesses.
Did you know that Greenly does more than guide your company to achieve your carbon assessment? Beyond quantifying your CO2 emissions and guiding you in your ecological transition, our teams can help you to get your B Corp certification.
Why should you strive for this certification? How can you obtain maximum points through our services?
Here are the answers.
Obtaining a B Corp label (‘B Corp’ stands for ‘Benefit Corporation’) is a way to prove your company’s compliance with multiple standards and commitment to environmental protection.
This international, demanding and prestigious CSR certification is awarded by the NGO B Lab.
Created in the United States in 2006, B Corp encourages companies to take social, societal and environmental issues into account in order to develop an inclusive, regenerative and equitable economy.
👉 This label shows the environmental and social performance of companies as a whole - not just their service or product.
Being certified B Corp offers multiple benefits as the company:
For-profit companies that have been in business for at least 12 months are eligible for certification. Thus, start-ups, subsidiaries, franchises and companies using their activity for the benefit of the general interest are concerned. 🏢
In the case where a company has been in the creation phase or in operation for less than one year, it can take advantage of this pending status, known as "Pending B Corp", to justify their commitment.
👉 At present, the label is present in more than 75 countries and concerns more than 145 French companies - including Greenly since August 2022 - certified B Corp. Worldwide, more than 4,000 companies are today certified.
Getting your B Corp label is no small feat. The certification process is particularly long and demanding, and is based on five themes:
Once all the information has been collected, the following five labeling steps must be followed:
Repeat this process every three years in order to be part of a process dedicated to continuous improvement, and ultimately maintain the certification.
👉 Please note: the length and price of the labeling process depends on the size and complexity of the company, and can vary between €50 and €25,000.
The services offered by Greenly earn many of the points you need in order to obtain the B Corp label.
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Using Greenly’s expertise to obtain the B Corp label allows you to ensure regular monitoring of your GHG emissions, thanks to your carbon footprint.
Beyond participating in the collective effort to limit global warming, achieving a carbon balance is also an obligation for:
Each company carrying out its carbon assessment with our structure benefits from the support of a Greenly expert dedicated to the implementation and monitoring of its performance indicators.
These indicators are established on the basis of the profile and activity of the company concerned and measure the effectiveness of the actions implemented over a year.
👉 The implementation of such monitoring thus ensures a framework conducive to the company’s environmental progress - a point strongly valued by the B Corp certification.
In addition to supporting you in making a customised carbon assessment, Greenly experts also accompany you in developing an action plan adapted to the context and sector of your company.
The objective? To significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from your activity.
To reduce the impact of your emission stations and thus improve your environmental performance, it is necessary to adopt as soon as possible what are called "eco-gestures", but also larger measures that are implemented over the long term.
Eco-gestures can concern:
In order to initiate the ecological transition of your company, it is necessary to initiate changes within your structure, but also to involve your suppliers in this process.
Thus, the decarbonisation of your supply chain is a point particularly valued by the B Corp certification.
👉 And for good reason: the supply chain - included in the scope 3 - can be responsible for up to 90% of a company’s carbon footprint.
In order to limit the impact of the supply chain, Greenly proposes to engage your suppliers by:
A key topic in obtaining B Corp certification, our experts pay particular attention to direct and indirect energy emissions - which correspond to scopes 1 and 2.
This includes, for example, the consumption of gas for heating a building or the consumption of electricity necessary for the operation of production machinery.
Beyond contributing to global warming, these forms of energy also have a significant impact on the company’s energy bill.
In order to help you improve your energy performance and achieve financial savings, Greenly accurately measures your energy consumption and then guides you through the implementation of a high-impact reduction plan.
We work in partnership with many companies to reduce their environmental impact.
The expertise of these Greenly partners allows our clients to learn how to better control their emissions in wild array of fields.
The objective? Allow your company to maximise its environmental performance in specific impact categories, promoted by the B Corp label - supplier commitment and energy management, for example.
The carbon contribution is essential to the business climate strategy.
Effectively, it’s about sequestering residual emissions from their operations - those that cannot be avoided.
Previously audited and validated by our experts, the "carbon offsetting" projects that we offer to our clients are rigorously selected to respond to:
The Greenly platform offers many virtuous projects to provide support across various sectors, such as afforestation or electromobility.
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