Collected bulletins, events and resources from Book Chain Project together with news links from external sources.
The Book Chain Project provides a publishing industry Code of Conduct for labour and environmental standards. It states the publishers’ commitments to their suppliers and what they expect from their suppliers in return. The Code of Conduct is based on existing internationally-recognized Codes and Laws. Suppliers that do not already have an ethical audit can ask for a SMETA audit that is audited against this Code of Conduct.
This is an updated excel spreadsheet which contains the questions covered by the Environmental Questionnaire. This excel tool can be used to gather the EQ data before entering it into the system.
Please note, whilst we have added guidance and highlighted conditionals (e.g. further questions appear based on previous input), it is not possible to build all of the interactive features of the online EQ into excel and therefore some features are missing (e.g. breakdown match total checks).
A credible supplier due diligence process begins with assessing and segmenting your suppliers based on risk. This risk tool has been developed to help you do just this. The tool assesses both country level risk and supplier level risk for both environmental and labour rights/health and safety, and you can use it to assess risk across 15 direct supplier types in every country.
The tool belongs to SLR but is freely available to download and use. Please do credit SLR if you reproduce the results or methodology of the tool.
本次会议语言为中文。
Meeting language: Chinese
本次研讨会主要内容：
• 了解气候变化的发展及外界期望：介绍气候变化的科学背景，政府监管部门对出版行业的要求，及出版商对纸厂和供应商的期待。
• 认识自身环境表现：解读环境调查问卷主页仪表盘数据、标识及环境表现成熟度。
• 共同探索改进方向：图书链项目组将分享提升环境表现的相关资源，同时邀请到纸厂和供应商代表分享在节能、节水、减排方面的优秀实践。
• 问答环节：回答纸厂和供应商对于环境问卷及图书链项目的问题。
在全球对气候变化的日益关注下，Book Chain Project 图书链项目组于2020年更新了图书链项目环境调查问卷，在新版问卷中添加了有关能源消耗、温室气体排放、水处理和生产废料处理的相关问题。
在2022的研讨会中，我们为纸厂和供应商介绍了环境问卷对于出版商的重要性，问卷覆盖的主题，及如何计算能源消耗数据和碳排放数据，以帮助大家填写环境问卷。
基于近年来各纸厂和供应商环境调查问卷的填写情况，以及纸厂和供应商对于问卷环境表现的问题，图书链项目组拟再次举办线上研讨会，旨在为中国的纸厂和印刷厂用户介绍最新进展，解答疑问，以及为大家提高环境表现提供支持。
时间：2023年3月29日 北京时间 下午2点至3点半
研讨会为线上会议，注册成功的用户将在研讨会开始前一周内收到会议链接。
建议各纸厂及供应商的HSE部门或环境部门相关负责人一同参与本次研讨会。
注意：
本次报名由凯嵘管理咨询（上海）有限公司（简称凯嵘）处理环境调查问卷线上研讨会报名的信息。由于我们使用Book Chain Project (bookchainproject.com) 平台收集报名信息，请详见Book Chain Project的隐私政策https://bookchainproject.com/privacy。报名收集到的个人信息将储存在凯嵘公司内部作为项目资料保存，结果仅用于环境调查问卷线上研讨会使用，不会用于其他用途。当会议不再需要报名信息时，我们将销毁或删除它。报名视为您已同意凯嵘的信息处理规则。关于本次问卷信息处理有任何问题请联系: Rebecca.luo@carnstone.com.。
The webinar will include:
• External development and expectation: introduction to the scientific context of climate change and why publishing and paper sectors should care about it; the latest development and publisher's expectations for mills and suppliers.
• Understand your own performance: help audience understand their environmental performance using the EQ data and labels, and introduce the environmental questionnaire maturity model.
• Improve your performance: BCP team to share relevant experiences and resources. Case studies from mills and suppliers.
• Q&A: BCP team to answer any questions regarding the BCP EQ and the BCP project in general.
With the global urgency in tackling climate change, the Book Chain Project (BCP) team have refreshed the Environmental Questionnaire (EQ) in 2020, adding more emphasis and new questions on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as an update to the water and waste sections.
In 2022, we held a webinar to introduce the context of the EQ and why is it important for publishers, topics covered in the EQ, how to calculate and collect data, in order to guide mills and suppliers to complete the EQ with confidence.
Based on the mills and suppliers' EQ submission, performance analysis, and questions that we are frequently asked, we are holding another webinar (primarily for Chinese mills and suppliers) to address some issues that we know mills and suppliers care about.
Webinar time: 29 March 2023 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC+08:00) Beijing
The Webinar will be held virtually and the registered users will receive the webinar joining details a week before the webinar date.
We recommend mills and suppliers to send people responsible for HSE or environmental management to join the webinar.
Please find English below.
此次线上研讨会主要内容为如何计算能源使用数据和碳排放数据。Book Chain Project 团队工作人员将为您在线讲解。
本次会议语言为中文。
请在4月7日前报名，如有问题想提问或需取消注册，请联系tong.wu@carnstone.com。
请在会前阅读以下材料：
• 纸厂环境调查问卷填写指南
• 环境调查问卷常见问题解答
本次报名由凯嵘管理咨询（上海）有限公司（简称凯嵘）处理环境调查问卷线上研讨会报名的信息。由于我们使用Book Chain Project (bookchainproject.com) 平台收集报名信息，请详见Book Chain Project的隐私政策https://bookchainproject.com/privacy。报名收集到的个人信息将储存在凯嵘公司内部作为项目资料保存，结果仅用于环境调查问卷线上研讨会使用，不会用于其他用途。当会议不再需要报名信息时，我们将销毁或删除它。报名视为您已同意凯嵘的信息处理规则。关于本次问卷信息处理有任何问题请联系: tong.wu@carnstone.com。
This webinar will focus on how to calculate energy data and carbon emissions. You will hear from environmental experts from the Book Chain Project team. If you would already like to submit a question before the webinar or to cancel the event, please email to tong.wu@carnstone.com.
The webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
Various resources related to the EQ are already available, and we recommend you go through these before the webinar:
• Guidance for mills
• Guidance for suppliers
• FAQ
This webinar will cover why sharing information on environmental performance is important to Publishers; what the topics that the EQ (Environmental Questionnaire) asks about are, and how to complete the EQ. You will hear from environmental experts from the Book Chain Project team and senior representatives from participating Publishers. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions. If you would already like to submit a question before the webinar, please email to tong.wu@carnstone.com.
Time:
08.00-09.30am London / 12.30-02.00pm Delhi / 03.00-04.30pm Beijing
The EQ is a self-assessment questionnaire you can complete on the online Book Chain Project system. It asks questions to establish your environmental performance, in terms of your policies, management systems, energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and wastewater treatment. It allows you to provide information to all Publishers you are already working with or who are interested in working with you in future, by answering a single questionnaire. This should reduce your reporting burden.
Gathering this information from their suppliers is important to Publishers, as they are under constant pressure from customers, investors, NGOs and their employees to reduce their contribution to the important issues of climate change and water stress. Many have set targets to improve the environmental footprint of their supply chain, which in most cases is much larger than their own operational footprint.
Various resources related to the EQ are already available, and we recommend you go through these before the webinar:
此次线上研讨会将为供应商介绍向出版商分享供应商环境表现信息的重要性，环境调查问卷包括的主题，以及如何填写问卷。
本次会议语言主要为英文，现场配备中文翻译问答。
请在5月11日前报名，如有问题想提问或需取消注册，请联系tong.wu@carnstone.com。
请在会前阅读以下材料：
Covid waste” – dozens of gloves, masks and bottles of hand sanitiser have been found by NGO Operation Mer Prope in the Mediterranean, mixed in with the usual litter of disposable cups and aluminum cans. This is after Hong Kong based NGO OceansAsia raised the alarm earlier on this year, in response to finding masks on the beaches of the uninhabited Soko Islands. This new form of waste could be a sign of things to come in the future.
A six-week consultation on new climate disclosure rules for the UK’s pension sector started on 26th August. Under the proposed changes, pension schemes with £5bn or more in assets under management will be required to both assess and publicly report on the physical and transition risks facing assets in their portfolios by the end of 2022.
Smaller schemes which still have more than £1bn of assets under management would then be subjected to the same requirements by the end of 2023. To ensure that disclosures are uniform, pension schemes will be mandated to follow the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
According to the Department of Work and Pensions’ Secretary of State, once this roll-out is complete, 70% of the UK’s pension sector, in terms of assets under management, would be covered.
The Guardian has recently uncovered audits and whistleblowing reports from factories that supply the fast-fashion retailer Boohoo. All 18 audit reports raised questions about minimum wage violations at the time they were conducted. Issues identified in these supplier audits include inaccurate hours recorded for workers potentially resulting in workers not receiving the minimum wage or their furlough money, workers not having the right to work in the UK, and employees being issued with contracts that aren’t in their native language amongst others.
As migrant workers continue to be on the frontline of the collective response to Covid-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have published new employer guidance on measures to protect them.
The guidance highlights the role of the private sector and is presented in five categories: physical and mental health; living and working conditions; economic support; ethical recruitment; and supply chain transparency. Click here to download the guidance for migrant workers.