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Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo

Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.

  • By Lovorka Čaja, Iva Grabarić Andonovski
  • Dec 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event

Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — If a Tree Falls with Nobody Around to Record its Exact Location, Was it Even Compliant?

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could make millions of books illegal in Europe, forcing publishers to pulp stock and raising costs for readers. What changes should publishers be asking the EU to make before the regulation comes in?

  • By Sam Thornton
  • Sep 25, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus

In this article, I present five specific developments which may give us an idea how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?

What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Putting Research Publications to Work in Tackling the SDGs — 3 Challenges to Publishers

Research publications contain the answers to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. But to realize that potential, more people need to find, understand and act on them.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 10, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”

We’re delighted to reveal the eagerly awaited theme for this year’s Peer Review Week, Innovation and Technology in Peer Review.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke, Maryam Sayab
  • May 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: A New STM Roadmap Provides a Guide to Embedding Sustainability in Publishing 

The STM Association has launched an SDG roadmap. It is a list of suggested steps to provide inspiration and pathways to navigate the sustainability initiatives and actions that publishers and societies can undertake.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Aug 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Leadership and Accountability Matter for a Sustainable Publishing Ecosystem

How can we provide both leadership and accountability across the publishing ecosystem toward the Sustainable Development Goals?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jul 25, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Call for Carbon Neutrality in Scholarly Publishing

The ISMTE DEI Advisory Committee calls on the field of scholarly publishing to set goals and actively work to achieve operational carbon and climate neutrality.

  • By Shein Ei Cho, Michelle Fleetwood, Kathleen Kelly Halverson, Sarah McCormack, Mark Paglia, Dianndra Roberts
  • Apr 24, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

How are Publishing Associations Leading the Way to Meet the SDGs?

Haseeb Irfanullah looks at the various activities being taken by publishing organizations to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Climate Action: Are We Committed Enough?

On the occasion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Haseeb Md. Irfanullah explores scholarly publishers’ role in tackling climate crisis.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Nov 7, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SDG Publishers Compact: Where Do We Stand Now?

Haseeb Irfanullah reviews progress that publishers have made towards supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jul 28, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Spring Break — Also This Week, Our Webinar on “The Future of Research as a Global Enterprise”

We’re off for Spring Break next week. But in the meantime, be sure to check out our upcoming webinar on The Future of Research as a Global Enterprise.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 8, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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