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Company Assessment
(Last updated Jun 2025)
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Allbirds Inc
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Certified B Corp with score of 96.5
Certified B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. The B Impact Assessment measures a company's practices and outcomes in five areas: governance, workers, community, the environment, and customers. This company has a B Impact Score of 96.5 and has held B Corp Certification since December 2016. The median score for businesses is 50.9, with a score of 80 required for B Corp Certification.
Source: B Lab
(2024)
Low ESG Risk
Sustainalytics, a top ESG research firm, evaluates environmental, social, and governance risks for over 16,000 companies. Its ESG Risk Rating reflects how much risk a company faces in its industry and how well it manages those risks. The final score includes both unmanaged and unmanageable risks, and companies are rated on a scale from negligible (0-10) to severe (40+). This company received an ESG Risk Rating of 18.3, placing it in the "low risk" category (retrieved April 2025).
Source: Sustainalytics
(2025)
10.76% for supply chain practices in China
The Green Supply Chain Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI) evaluates consumer-facing companies that have a sizeable supply chain in China. The evaluation uses government supervision data and public information to assess the environmental management of their supply chains in China. This company received a score of 10.76/100 (retrieved 24 Nov 2023).
Source: IPE
(2023)
D+ in Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard
The Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard 2025 by Stand.earth ranks 42 of the most influential global fashion companies on their efforts to phase out fossil fuels. The scorecard assesses performance across five impact areas: commitments & transparency; renewable energy transition; advocacy; materials and circularity; and clean shipping. This company received a rank of D+.
Source: Stand.earth
(2025)
ZQ-certified wool
The merino wool used in their shoes is ZQ-certified, which means it meets stringent standards of sustainable farming and animal welfare. Their superfine merino wool also requires 60% less energy to produce than typical synthetic materials used in shoes.
Source: ZQ Merino
(2019)
Use of non-mulesed wool
Brands owned by this company are listed in Human Society International Australia's Better Wool Guide as using 100% non-mulesed wool from a robust certification scheme, or has a time-bound commitment to do so. Mulesing is the controversial practice of removing strips of the skin of a lamb's rear and is often done without pain relief. In Australia, the only country where mulesing still occurs, an estimated 10 million merino lambs are subjected to mulesing each year - equivalent to 19 lambs per minute.
Source: HSI Australia
(2024)
Sustainable Apparel Coalition member
This company is a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, a multi-stakeholder initiative launched in March 2011 by a group of global apparel and footwear companies and non-profit organizations (representing nearly one third of the global market share for apparel and footwear). The Coalition's goals are to reduce the apparel industry's environmental and social impact, and to develop a universal index to measure environmental and social performance of apparel products.
Sustainability claims
This company has a number of sustainability claims on its website including use of recycled packaging, donating lightly used Allbirds to Soles4Souls, and using natural materials.
Source: company website
(2019)
CanopyStyle member
This company is a member of the CanopyStyle initiative, which came about when research found that millions of trees are used every year to produce dissolving pulp, a key ingredient for fabrics such as rayon/viscose. The campaign seeks to phase out the use of endangered forest fibre in fabric.
Source: Canopy
(2025)
Textile Exchange member
This company is a member of the Textile Exchange, a global non-profit that works closely with its members to drive textile industry transformation in preferred fibres, integrity and standards and responsible supply networks. They identify and share best practices regarding farming, materials, processing, traceability and product end-of-life in order to reduce the textile industry's impact on the world's water, soil and air, and the human population.
Source: Textile Exchange
(2025)
40/100 in Ethical Fashion Report
Baptist World Aid Australia's '2024 Ethical Fashion Report' assessed 120 companies on their efforts to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation in their supply chains, as well as protect the environment from the harmful impacts of the fashion industry. Assessment criteria fall into five main categories: policy & governance, tracing & risk, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental sustainability. This company received a score of 40/100. The average score was 31.3 and the highest score was 90.
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