Our reports, documents and tools share what we have learnt about better book supply chains.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in Thailand. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in Mozambique. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in Malaysia. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in India. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in Brazil. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This guide provides an overview of key documentation that may be collected to demonstrate compliance with national legal requirements in Argentina. In addition, the guide outlines practical approaches to document verification, including how to assess the validity, relevance, and reliability of information, as well as how to cross-check evidence across multiple sources.
This statement sets out the Book Chain Project's commitment to evolving and strengthening its existing due diligence processes, in light of the exclusion of printed materials - including books and journals - from the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) scope.
The Forest Country Risk tool is integral to the Book Chain Project forest source grading system. It assesses the risk of deforestation (loss of forest cover) and transhipment (importing of timber from countries with deforestation risk) at a country-level.
The tool belongs to SLR but is freely available to download and use. Please do credit SLR Consulting if you reproduce the results or methodology of the tool.
Find out more about how we use the tool to assess forest risk.
These are the slides that were presented during the BCP EUDR Solution Launch webinar on the 2nd of September.
The slides also contain our responses to the questions raised during both webinars.
This is the recording of the BCP EUDR Solution Launch Webinar, which took place on the 2nd of September.
This is the recording of the BCP EUDR Solution: Introduction for Mills and Suppliers
Here are the slides that were presented during the Introduction for Mills and Suppliers Webinar.
We are excited to release the second edition of the Book Chain Project Environment Report, which provides insights into the publishing industry’s environmental performance. This report contains aggregated data from mill and supplier Environmental Questionnaires, covering a range of important environmental topics, including GHG emissions, energy intensity, water use, and waste management.
This report offers greater data coverage than the first edition as the measurement and reporting of environmental activities become more commonplace.
Key highlights from the report include:
If you have any questions about the Environment Report, please get in touch with Victoria.
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).
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).
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Central London (Lumier London LTD; Underwood Lofts - The Palm Room; 6-14 Underwood Street; London N1 7JQ) for our annual Seminar series . The theme we will be exploring this year is “Lifting the Cover: The Age of Transparency and Supply Chain Collaboration”, highlighting how regulation and other drivers are pushing for increased transparency, necessitating further and deeper collaboration across supply chains. There will also be opportunities to catch-up and network with representatives from the BCP publishers, pulp & paper mills, printers, NGOs and relevant industry groups.
This tool assesses the biodiversity risk of the location of the sources that make up paper brands, based on WWF's Biodiversity Risk Filter. This tool is an update to the original BCP Biodiversity Risk tool.
The tool belongs to Carnstone but is freely available to download and use. Please do credit Carnstone Partners Ltd if you reproduce the results or methodology of the tool.
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.
This document provides detailed guidance for publishers to calculate GHG emissions in their own operations and upstream and downstream value chains. It includes methodologies and examples consistent with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard, for calculating emissions of each Scope and Category.