PUBLISHING DECLARES CLIMATE ACTION Sign the pledge
Our ideas and stories are limitless, but the planet’s resources are not.
The planet is warming at an unprecedented rate. Habitat loss and deforestation are destroying the biodiversity essential to our very survival. And these changes will disproportionately impact some of the world’s poorest communities. With just eight years left in this crucial decade, the time for action is now.
As readers, storytellers, creators, and educators, we have a unique role to play in the climate crisis. We have a responsibility to use our collective voice to inspire positive change, as we reduce our impact and transform our ways of working. We invite everyone in the UK book and journal industry – from printers and publishers to booksellers and authors – to join us in this effort.
We, the undersigned, pledge to:
-
Take action on climateJoin the global climate effort to limit warming to 1.5°C by setting ambitious, measurable targets across our own operations and extended supply chain to achieve net zero as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest.
-
Protect life on landProtect nature and biodiversity, working with supply chain partners that are resource efficient, use sustainable materials and processes wherever possible in the content we produce, and constantly innovating to make use of new and recycled materials.
-
Strengthen partnershipsCollaborate with our peers, authors, illustrators, supply chain partners and business partners to translate our climate aspirations and commitments into tangible actions to safeguard our planet for future generations.
-
Educate for sustainabilityEmpower our colleagues to become climate literate and support them to bring that knowledge into the work that they do.Advocate for sustainabilityUse our expertise, platform, and voice to raise awareness and drive positive climate action wherever we can.
Take two minutes
Sign up hereWe invite everyone in the publishing industry – from printers and publishers to booksellers and authors – to join us.
The signatories
160 and countingPublishing
- And Other Stories
- Anthem Press
- Arkbound
- Austin Macauley Publishers
- Author In Me
- b small publishing
- Balestier Press
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Bonnier Books UK
- BookMachine
- Books Council of Wales
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Bristol University Press
- British Small Animal Veterinary Association
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment
- Canongate Books
- Comma Press
- Dare-Gale Press
- Dialect Press
- Digital Tugboat, Inc.
- DK
- Duckworth Books
- Earth Island Publishing
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Eleusinian Press
- Elsevier
- Extremis Publishing
- Faber
- FCM Publishing
- Fine Feather Press
- Firefly Press
- Fly on the Wall Press
- Hachette UK
- HarperCollins UK
- Hazel Press
- Henson Editorial Services & North Staffordshire Press
- Hesperus Press
- Impress Books
- Inpress
- IOP Publishing
- Isegoria Publishing
- Isegoria Publishing C.I.C.
- IT Governance Publishing
- Jacaranda Books
- Kogan Page
- Lantana Publishing
- Liverpool University Press
- Manchester University Press
- manual.editions
- Michael O'Mara Books
- Moonlight Publishing
- Nosy Crow
- Notting Hill Editions
- Ockham Publishing Group
- Old Barn Books
- Oneworld
- Oriel Square
- Oxford University Press
- Pan Macmillan
- Pearson
- Peepal Tree Press
- Peirene Press
- Penguin Random House UK
- Polari Press
- Princeton University Press
- Profile Books
- Publishers Association
- Renard Press
- Richmond Santillana
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- SAGE Publishing
- Saqi Books
- Saraband
- Scholastic
- Sean Lusk
- Search Press
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Sophie Galleymore Bird
- Sort of Books
- SPCK
- Spiramus Press
- Springer Nature
- SRL Publishing
- STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers)
- Strange Region Press
- Taylor & Francis
- Thames & Hudson
- The Folio Society
- The History Press
- The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- The Salariya Book Company
- Triarchy Press
- Tudor Rose
- Ulverscroft Group Limited
- Valley Press
- Wayward Bird
- WF Howes
- Wiley
- WordUnited
Production & Supply
- Arab Printing Press
- Book Industry Communication (BIC)
- Books International
- BookSource
- CarbonCo
- CarbonQuota
- Clays
- CPI Group (UK)
- Fragma
- Imago
- Inspired Search & Selection
- Perlego
- Prenax
- RPI
- VIKA Books
- Westchester Education UK & International
- Westchester Publishing Services UK
- Woodland Group
Bookselling
- Blurb
- FOLDE Dorset
- Kibworth Books
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Red Lion Books Ltd
- The Booksellers Association
- The Paperback Shop
Writing & Illustration
- Alex Mullarky
- Alice Jolly
- Ancestry Talks Community Interest Company
- Anne Rooney
- B.A.B.E.
- Celestine And The Hare
- Claire Philip
- CMC Translations
- Creatura Ltd
- Dr Robert A Gilbert
- Emma Reynolds
- Gillian Duff Author
- Golden Egg Academy
- Helen Sedgwick Ltd
- Hiddel Brock Wood
- Inky Frog Editorial
- Interlinea
- Isobel Kent Proofreader
- James Hywel Books & Oink Books
- Jane Ray
- Jonathan Emmett
- Julie Allan
- Lucy Coats
- Lucy Coats Children's Books
- Mandy Haggith
- Mark Leffert MD
- Moira Mcpartlin
- Piers Torday
- Rashmi Sirdeshpande
- Ray Star Books
- Rebecca Cobb
- Shazea Quraishi
- Society of Authors
- Steven Mitchell
- The Good Literary Agency
- Vanessa Harbour