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The new program has three parts. The first will be a carbon footprint calendar to be created in the form of a digital platform, allowing publishers to measure the carbon emissions of each work published. A life-cycle analysis is next, monitoring “the individual trajectory of two printed works and their digital environment, in an attempt to support decision-making and modes by which environmental performance can be improved. Finally training will be the third and final element.
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Voluntary 5k for employee participation, to respond to book bans and benefiting the Freedom To Read Foundation, a nonprofit legal and educational organization devised to protect and defend the First Amendment to the US Constitution and to support the rights of both libraries and citizens to access information. Within 12 hours of registration opening Monday (March 24, 2025), Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks employees had raised more than $10,000 for the Freedom To Read Foundation.
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The European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab) joined the UN SDGs Publishers Compact, focusing on creating an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable digital publishing ecosystem. Our commitment involves advocating for open standards and developing accessible digital content to enhance educational materials’ distribution and accessibility. We are dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies and promoting interoperability to address industry challenges and enhance user experience. Our efforts also
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The Springer Nature SDG Talk series is a forum for discussion of issues, progress and opportunities relating to research in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Talks provide space for exploration of research that could be used to implement solutions to global challenges, and for connecting this with audiences within and beyond academia.
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Science for a Sustainable Future (SFSF) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) and Springer Nature. Now in its fifth year, this annual event brings together policymakers, government representatives, UN officials and leading global scientists to discuss and advance the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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We host multidisciplinary, multimedia SDG related content on our SDG Programme page. This includes 17 SDG ‘hubs’, one for each goal, as well as highlights of SDG related events hosted by Springer Nature, blogposts and campaigns. We also feature the Nature Portfolio multi-journal SDG collection to make it easy for researchers and others to find and use the SDG research and information they need.
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This was an editorial that showed the results of using technology to map the alignment of the journal ‘Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica’ (Psychology: Research and Review) with SDGs 3,4 and 5 to show the journal’s contribution to research addressing key SDGs. The exercise was a collaboration between the Content Innovation and publishing teams at Springer Nature.
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A dedicated cross-organisation working group that focuses on promoting research and content across the Springer Nature portfolio for specific awareness days relating to SDG 3. In 2024, they promoted 10 awareness days including World Cancer Day, World Refugee Day and World Suicide Prevention Day.
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We have established a partnership between Springer Nature, our SDG 5 working group and UN Women to promote dialog between researchers and policy makers. As part of the partnership, Springer Nature signed the UN Women Media Compact, hosted a UN Women representative in our NYC office for International Women’s Day, hosted panel discussion as part of our Breaking Barriers conference facilitated by UN Women and have been running further collaborative initiatives that bridge science and policy.
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In 2022 we launched a conference series aimed at exploring how research and science can support the SDG 5, its targets and its intersection with other SDGs, including SDG 3 and SDG 10. The second conference took place in September 2024 and focused on gender and health equity. The conferences convene key stakeholders from academia, industry, government and policy sectors, facilitate knowledge exchange and the breaking of silos, and promote cooperation for the goals.
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The Sustainable Development in LA&C Summit brings together actors from diverse backgrounds involved with the SDGs. This event provides a platform to disseminate their work internationally and promotes synergies between our regional community aiming at advancing the 2030 agenda. Across the last three editions we were able to cover a multitude of subjects from ecosystem conservation to quality education, health and well being to sustainable cities, from climate change to just energy transition.
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Nature Reviews Bioengineering was the first journal in the Nature Portfolio to encourage authors to increase citation diversification and include a citation diversity statement to address citation bias in publishing.
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