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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Beginning in September 2022, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) convened meetings of members of a Joint Task Force on Outcomes and Impacts (JTFOI). The membership of the JTFOI is drawn from two HESI Action Groups: Ratings, Rankings and Assessment (RRA) and SDG Publishers Compact Fellows (SDGPCF).
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The idea was simple. For books to be truly sustainable the full supply chain needs to be working together to rapidly decarbonize. But it is difficult to see how actions being taken across the supply chain were making tangible carbon reductions. To do this, we used a carbon footprint approach to give an initial estimate of the overall carbon impact of the Portuguese general publishing sector. The data would be supplemented by qualitative interviews to help identify areas where action can happen.
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Geosciences are foundational to achieving the SDGs because they provide methods, tools, and technologies that can be applied to finding practical solutions to major problems facing our planet and its population. “Geoscience in Action: Advancing Sustainable Development” is a special report co-published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and UNESCO demonstrating how geoscientists’ knowledge, skills, and competencies can be used to advance every one of the SDGs.
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With the aim of fostering Responsible Governance and Inclusive Peace, Globethics develops one of its main Series/book collections with publications on the topic. One of its last instances has been the trilogy “Global Survey on Business Ethics”, edited by Dr. Bryan Robinson and Dr. Georges Enderle. Thit trilogy is the result of a sharp academic work on business good practice and responsible leadership from a multifaceted and international perspective.
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The inaugural APA Sustainability Survey results have been released that show that many Australian publishers are taking steps to improve the environmental sustainability of their organisations. Over half of the publishers who responded have appointed a person or team to lead their company’s sustainability agenda, and over a quarter are setting targets to reduce energy, waste and plastic consumption, as well as to increase recycling.
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Tori is a reading organization in Amsterdam that is committed to making a more inclusive children’s book landscape. Books and picture books are used as windows (understanding about others) and mirrors (recognition) for children.
Tori’s aim is to have a more inclusive children’s book landscape, so that children discover at a young age that they are part of a colorful society and see diversity as a strength
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The Black Archives is a historical archive and cultural center for black heritage in Amsterdam. The archive consists of artifacts and more than 10,000 books, mainly black writers and scientists. The books cover topics including racism, slavery and (de)colonization, gender and feminism, social sciences, Suriname, the former Netherlands Antilles, South America and Africa.
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Achieving business growth is traditionally done through a combination of growing revenue and reducing costs. The hypothesis is that a tradeoff exists between making sustainable or net zero choices, and business growth. This whitepaper seeks to explore the economic challenges and opportunities of using environmental sustainability as a driver for business growth and the role finance should play in helping publishing become net zero.
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Editis is a publishing company, based in France. Our group signed the SDG Global Compact in 2012.
The greenhouse gas emissions report is based on 2022 activities in order to build a consistent reduction plan
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MDPI’s SDG Hub provides thousands of recent open–access content on SDGs in the form of scientific articles and books.
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The CACTUS Mental Health Survey is the largest and most diverse global survey on mental health among researchers. 13000+ researchers across 169 countries participated in this survey, talking about joy and stress triggers in academia and the need for a more positive, nurturing research culture. Insights from this survey have contributed to sustaining an important conversation on researcher mental health and prompts research institutions to take tangible steps towards helping researchers thrive.
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SRL Publishing is the world’s first climate positive publisher, supporting projects which have the highest verification standards around the world, and also planting trees to replace the number of trees used for their products.
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The Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) released the results of its 2018 survey measuring diversity in the English-language Canadian book publishing industry – the first survey of its kind in the country. Key findings of the survey were that people with indigenous and non-white backgrounds are underrepresented in the industry, with 82 percent of the respondents having identified as white. The survey also included data on age, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability.
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In 2016, the Norwegian Publishers Association began to work on the topic “The green book trade.” Their goal has been to make it easier for publishers to choose their suppliers based on an internationally recognised set of criteria and guidelines. They developped a guide to the sustainable procurement of paper, an introduction on to procurement policies, a list of tools and measures to prevent the use of controversially sourced paper, and a system for rating individual books and paper quality.
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The UNESCO Global Education Coalition is a platform for collaboration and exchange to protect the right to education during the unprecedented disruption brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to support countries in scaling up their best distance learning practices and reaching children and you who are most at risk. Publishers are among the coalition members and will be key in the effort to strengthen and enrich the content brought to children who are learning away from school.
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In 2015, Lee and Low Books released a survey on diversity conduced in 2015. The survey aimed to establish concrete statistics regarding diversity in the publishing workforce, and ask the question: if the people who work in publishing are not a diverse group, how can diverse voices be represented in books? It concluded that the workforce in North America was overwhelmingly white and straight. When the survey was repeated in 2019, the numbers reflected essentially the same demographic statistics.
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In 2017, academic publisher Springer Nature launched their Grand Challenges programme (GCP) aiming to help develop solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time with sustainable cities as one of their target challenges.
An example of this research includes a study that looked at 185 Chinese cities of different sizes over a period of seven years. It concluded that a reduction of air and water pollution had the effect of increasing direct foreign investment inflows.
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