In 2020, UQP launched its own sustainability team to develop sustainable business practices from an environmental and social perspective.
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In 2020, UQP launched its own sustainability team to develop sustainable business practices from an environmental and social perspective.
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UQP made operational changes to reduce and offset its 2023 emissions and become Australia’s first ‘climate positive’ publisher. With independent verification under Climate Active standards, we measured and reduced our direct emissions and purchased more than the required offsets to be carbon positive. The 2023 offsetting schemes UQP used are accredited under the Gold Standard Schemes and Verra Schemes and are all linked to UN SDGs.
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KEÇİ is a digital platform prepared by Günışığı Kitaplığı, covering the contents of all the annual publishing conferences and teacher seminars which are being organized on a regular basis since 2010, with the purpose of making this valuable content available for open access in the form of a written digital archive. A wide variety of SDG related topics presented in annual seminars and conferences are also available on this platform.
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Günışığı Kitaplığı provides content and organizational support to seminars targeting the professional development of public librarians. These seminars aim to update the knowledge of public librarians on turning libraries into an attractive third place for users. Being one of the best examples of public, private sector, academia and NGO cooperation since 2010, other stakeholders of this project are Hacettepe University, Goethe Institute, Turkish Librarians Association and municipal corporations.
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The sectoral conference, organized by Günışığı Kitaplığı as a social responsibility project since 2011 is supported also by the Turkish Publishers Association. Bringing together all the stakeholders of the publishing industry with new agendas every year, this conference plays an important role in the development of our publishing sector to international standards. The program of the 2022 conference was designed to focus on “Climate Crisis and Publishing Sector” and supported by UNDP Türkiye as well.
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Being the first publishing house in Turkey signing the SDG Pusblishers Compact, Günışığı Kitaplığı has committed to adding new books to its catalogue that will increase knowledge and glorify hope in the fight against the climate crisis. With our expertise in the field of Children’s and YA Literature Books, we aim at drawing the attention of children and young adults to these issues through quality fiction books centered around various themes such as environment, climate change, and migration.
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Annual, free of charge, teacher training seminars organised by Günışığı Kitaplığı since 2010 hosted authors, academicians and experts from related fields as speakers. Discussing the use of literature books in classrooms through “creative reading practices”, every year four such practices are also being presented by teachers. A climate action related topic is also included in each seminar program to furnish the educators with necessary and correct discussion tools with their students.
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A curated collection of impactful research published in our journals that supports the SDG 5 Gender Equality goal to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. Sage’s strength in social and behavioral sciences means our content plays a unique and vital role in supporting progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and this collection highlights research aligned to key targets of SDG 5 to support global gender equality.
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This collection highlights research aligned to key targets of SDG 16 to support peace, justice and strong institutions. In the words of the UN, ‘Goal 16 is about promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. People everywhere should be free of fear from all forms of violence and feel safe as they go about their lives whatever their ethnicity, faith or sexual orientation.’
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A curated collection of impactful research published in our journals that supports the SDG 4 Quality Education goal to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Sage’s strength in social and behavioral sciences means our content plays a unique and vital role in supporting progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and this collection highlights research aligned to key targets of SDG 4 to support global education reform.
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UQP is committed to responsible waste management. At our head office, we collect multiple waste streams to be recycled including soft plastics, e-waste, fluorescent tubes, coffee pods and organics. Via UQ’s internal recycling program, UQP’s soft plastics are downcycled into products like decking, wheelie bins, park benches, shipping pallets, bottles and even playgrounds.
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Orders from UQP’s online store are packaged using reused boxes, recyclable mailers made with 100% recycled newspaper, recycled packing paper and compostable packing peanuts. UQP have also done away with printed invoices in favour of digital receipts.
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