PGN Presentations: Greening a Publishing Company (Earthscan)
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Transcript of PGN Presentations: Greening a Publishing Company (Earthscan)
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Environmental Policy
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Initially not formalisedInitially not formalised
• For many years, just informal initiatives
• Staff concern at lack of visible activity
• WWF order required supplier questionnaire to be completed, approved
• Scrambled through that
• Set up environment team 2005, volunteers from all departments
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Starting PointsStarting Points
• Environment policy
• Standards
• Quantify impacts
• Paper
• Offsetting
• Office energy use (existing, new)
• Other initiatives
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Formulating Environment PolicyFormulating Environment Policy
• Who was this for?– Staff– Customers– Other stakeholders, authors etc
• Several iterations
• Important to ensure policy is meaningful, testable
• On web site
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StandardsStandards
• Looked carefully at existing standards- ISO 14001
- EMAS
- Accountability
- Others
• Didn’t fine one that seemed appropriate, affordable
• Decided not to go down the formal route
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Assessing impactsAssessing impacts
• Used Climate Care spreadsheet– Paper accounted for 84% – Travel accounted for 9%– Freight accounted for 4%– Office use accounted for 3%
• Paper figure is generic; does not take account of FSC, end use
• Reasonable, ball-park estimates only
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PaperPaper
• Far and away our biggest impact
• Move to FSC for all print that we source; production, marketing, other
• Pressure on partners, co-editions to use FSC paper as well
• Little impact on prices
• Keep accurate records year to year
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OffsettingOffsetting
• Keen to offset all our emissions• Offset from publications and operations• Total cost about 0.25% • Used Climate Care, based on client list• Rethinking this following takeover of CC
by JP Morgan; led to lively debate internally
• Planning to do direct offsetting on RE and EE project in Wales
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Office impactsOffice impacts
• Used RE Tariff in former office
• Most other things landlord dependent
• Move to new premises had pluses, minuses
• New landlord very sympathetic, but cautious about extra costs
• Key was decisions on heating, a/c, lighting
• Hope other things will follow
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Other initiativesOther initiatives
• Office recycling and material use
• Fair Trade, local suppliers where possible
• Supplier questionnaires
• Promoting our efforts
• Looking at wider CSR issues, staff engagement
• Wormery!
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Future questionsFuture questions
• ‘ … it depends’ eg local vs development• What does a world look like with 80% CO2
reduction? What about carbon positive?• Is paper a carbon sink when used in
books?• How green is the electronic route of
information delivery?• How can you grow a business without
consuming more/having more impact?
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Thank YouThank You
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