B Corp's new carbon rules, explained for ops
B Corp's new climate standards are here. And if you're in ops, there's a decent chance making them actually happen will land with you.
That means figuring out what the new requirements actually mean for your business. Pulling data from finance, people, facilities and suppliers. Working out what counts as evidence. Getting other teams to do their bit. Putting new processes in place. And making sure you're not rebuilding the whole thing from scratch when recertification comes around.
Potentially without anyone in the business who actually knows carbon accounting.
This session is about turning the new B Corp Climate Action standards into an operational plan.
Aimée Tennant will take us through what has changed, what your business actually needs to do, what evidence you'll need to produce, and what a good Climate Transition Plan looks like in practice.
What we'll cover
🌍 What's changed - and which of the new Climate Action requirements you need to pay attention to
📏 What applies to your business - including how requirements differ by company size
📂 What you actually need to produce - accepted evidence, with real examples rather than vague definitions
🗺️ What "good" looks like - a Climate Transition Plan walked through from start to finish
🔥 Where to focus first - how to identify your biggest emissions hotspots rather than trying to tackle everything
🔍 What needs checking - what assurance and verification mean for the carbon data you're collecting
What you'll leave with
What your organisation needs to do, what evidence you need to gather, and what should happen next.
You'll have a much clearer idea of how to turn the B Corp requirements into an actual operational process - including what needs to happen across the business, rather than assuming ops has to somehow do all of it.
You should join us if...
✅ B Corp certification or recertification is somewhere on your company's roadmap
✅ Climate reporting, ESG or B Corp has landed somewhere in your ops remit
✅ You're the person who'll need to turn the requirements into processes, owners, evidence and deadlines
✅ Your company doesn't have a sustainability specialist who can simply take the whole thing off your hands
You don't need to know anything about carbon accounting before you arrive. Aimée will explain the concepts as we go, keep the jargon to a minimum, and focus on what operations teams actually need to do.
Probably not for you if...
🚫 You want a technical masterclass in carbon accounting methodology
🚫 Your organisation isn't pursuing B Corp certification/recertification and the new standards aren't relevant to your work
Agenda
Welcome and intros | 5 mins
From B Corp standard → operational reality | 35 mins
Bring your questions / B Corp headaches | 20 mins
This session will be recorded, including the Q&A, and shared with all Operations Nation members the week after.
Meet your speaker
Aimée Tennant
Aimée is the Co-Founder of Seedling, a carbon management platform that helps SMEs to take credible climate action - without it being too complex, time-consuming, or breaking the bank.
Seedling combines easy-to-use software with one-to-one expert support, and has helped hundreds of businesses - from fashion brands to tech teams to law firms - measure a collective footprint of more than 150,000 tonnes of CO₂e to date.
Before Seedling, Aimée spent time in healthcare investing and strategy consulting, where she caught the entrepreneurial bug.
Together with 🙌
Seedling
Seedling gives SME teams the technology and expertise you need to understand and act on your carbon emissions.
They specialise in accurate, full-scope carbon footprinting, helping you to make confident, informed decisions, backed by data and climate science.
Their mission: to help you make genuine, measurable progress towards Net Zero - without being too time-intensive or breaking the bank.
Guided by an expert, use the Seedling platform to measure, reduce, and offset your carbon footprint, and share your impact. They help with:
✅ Full-scope carbon footprints, GHG Protocol compliant
✅ SBTi-aligned Net Zero targeting
✅ Carbon Reduction Plans (PPN 06/21)
✅ Verified offsetting - tackle emissions and support communities
✅ B Corp environmental impact assessments
✅ Sector specific deep-dives & activity-based analysis
✅ Employee surveys and engagement
Book a demo here to find out more! 🌱
Please note: This is a co-hosted event between Seedling and Operations Nation. Attendee information submitted at registration will be shared with both parties for the purposes of running this event. Read Operations Nation's privacy policy and Seedling's privacy policy.