Environmental entrepreneur eyes Cork as a leader in B Corp certification

BCorp certification is also increasingly being viewed as trial run for businesses to prepare themselves for new EU legislation coming down the tracks

'If Ireland is creating a strategy for the future, B Corp companies have to be at heart of it,' said Marcello Palazzi, at the first BCorp Cork event. Picture: Alison Miles /OSM

Amsterdam-based environmental entrepreneur Marcello Palazzi urged Cork City to become a global leader in creating more sustainable companies.

Mr Palazzi made his comments at an event in the city focused on the creation of more so called ‘BCorp’ certified companies, which are firms that meet social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability standards set out by an internationally recognised non-profit organisation called BLab.