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B Corp Certification
The consolidated standards PDF is served through a form driven download behind a Cloudflare challenge and was not retrieved. What was read in full, with no login, are B Lab's own Knowledge Hub Impact Topic summary articles, which publish the requirement and sub requirement text with reference codes, for Foundation Requirements, Environmental Stewardship and Circularity, Climate Action, Human Rights, Fair Work, and Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion. For Purpose and Stakeholder Governance and for Government Affairs and Collective Action only the published topic definitions were read, not the sub requirement lists. The single most important fact about this document for a hospitality matrix: no requirement in the material read specifies a physical condition of a building, a guest room or any occupied space. Requirements are written as company practices, to monitor, assess, hold a strategy, hold a policy, publicly share, or work with suppliers. All seven Impact Topics are mandatory once a company's track is set, with no points trade off between topics.
Against the eight pathways
Each row describes what this standard’s published criteria say. It is not an assessment of the organisation, and it is not a comparison of how well anyone applies it.
| Pathway | Coverage | What the criteria say |
|---|---|---|
| 01Air Quality | Not covered | The B Lab Standards Impact Topic summaries read for Foundation Requirements, Environmental Stewardship and Circularity, Climate Action, Human Rights, Fair Work and Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion contain no requirement addressing ventilation, filtration, indoor air measurement, mould, or combustion sources. The nearest text, ESC1.7, requires an assessment of actual and potential environmental impacts connected to operations and value chain, and does not name air. |
| 02Water Integrity | PartialB Lab Standards v2.1, ESC1.3 (Environmental Stewardship and Circularity) | Water is addressed as a volume and watershed risk question in ESC1.3, ESC1.4 and ESC2.3. That is a fragment of this pathway. The requirements read contain no criterion on the treatment train applied to water, no filtration specification at building or room level, no tested contaminant panel or laboratory, no pool or spa water chemistry, and no criterion on how drinking water reaches a guest. The company monitors its water consumption or withdrawal.Where this criterion is published |
| 03Light Rhythm | Not covered | The B Lab Standards Impact Topic summaries read for this record contain no requirement addressing lighting specification, colour temperature, flicker, blackout, daylight access or exterior light pollution. |
| 04EMF Harmony | Not covered | The B Lab Standards Impact Topic summaries read for this record contain no requirement addressing radiofrequency or electromagnetic exposure, wireless network topology, cabling, or equipment placement. The only technology risk question in the Foundation Requirements, FR3.1.c, concerns artificial intelligence. |
| 05Materials and Textiles | PartialB Lab Standards v2.1, ESC3.1 (Environmental Stewardship and Circularity) | Materials are addressed as origin and circularity in ESC3.1, ESC3.2 and ESC3.3, and hazardous chemicals appear in Foundation Requirement FR3.1.d only as a revenue screen asking whether the company generated at least 10 percent of revenue from selling them. The requirements read contain no criterion on low emission materials, finishes or adhesives, mattress composition or flame retardants, textile fibre content or certification, laundry chemistry, or plastics in contact with guests. The company monitors its material inflow.Where this criterion is published |
| 06Food and Kitchen | PartialB Lab Standards v2.1, ESC5.4 (Environmental Stewardship and Circularity) | Food is reached only through generic supply chain due diligence: ESC5.1 on environmental impacts in procurement decisions, ESC5.4 quoted here on tracing high risk raw materials, and ESC1.6 on animal welfare monitoring. The requirements read contain no criterion on food sourcing verification for a kitchen, on site growing, cookware or cooking oil policy, kitchen or ice water, or allergen, additive and seed oil discipline. The company has a time-bound plan to trace the origin and potential environmental impacts of its high-risk raw materials.Where this criterion is published |
| 07Biophilic and Healing Design | Not covered | The B Lab Standards Impact Topic summaries read for this record contain no requirement addressing nature access, views or outlook, spatial volume, natural material contact, or design intent. ESC1.5, which requires a company to identify facilities in or near ecologically sensitive areas and whether they are negatively affecting those areas, concerns harm from a facility to an ecosystem rather than occupant contact with nature, and applies only to Manufacturing and Agriculture tracks. |
| 08Sound and Sensory Ecology | Not covered | The B Lab Standards Impact Topic summaries read for this record contain no requirement addressing acoustic performance, background noise, plant noise, low frequency sound, or fragrance and chemical load in air. |
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Stays in our index holding B Corp Certification
- Playa Viva Juluchuca, Guerrero, Mexico12 / 24
- Song Saa Private Island Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia9 / 24
- Nihi Sumba Sumba Island, Indonesia6 / 24