Sustainability

Gold Class for corporate sustainability

Our parent company Informa has been included in the 2022 S&P Global Yearbook, with a Gold Class award for the first time.

This means we've scored within the top 15% in our industry for corporate sustainability and achieved an S&P Global ESG (environmental, social, and governance) score within 30% of the industry’s top-performing company.

S&P awards Gold Class to companies with a minimum total score of 60 and ...whose score is within 1% of the top-performing company’s score in their industry. Our score in 2022 was 78.

Read our 2021 sustainability report (PDF)

SDG Publishers Compact at Taylor & Francis one year in

A Q&A with Catherine Hodgson, Sustainability Manager, Taylor & Francis

The UN Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact is a pledge which features 10 action points to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

We sat down with our first-ever Sustainability Manager at Taylor & Francis, Catherine Hodgson, to ask her about her work with the Publishers Compact in 2021. We discussed how the organization has progressed with its work towards fulfilling the compact since January and asked her what the next steps were as we head into the final months of 2021.

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Taylor & Francis achieves CarbonNeutral® publication certification

We're proud to achieve CarbonNeutral® publication certification from Natural Capital Partners, the leading experts on carbon neutrality and climate finance, in line with The CarbonNeutral® Protocol.

This certification is for all 2021 and 2022 print book and journals. This follows our accelerated progress in reducing carbon emissions from our product supply chain and our purchase of high-quality, third-party-verified carbon credits for the remaining emissions that cannot yet be avoided.

This includes:

• Increasing the use of print-on-demand services to better match production with demand and reduce physical stock levels
• Donating unused book stock to BookAid and Amnesty International, avoiding waste and contributing to the wider sharing of knowledge
• Implementing a program to remove plastic packaging from printed journals, which now covers nearly 75% of products

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Making progress with FasterForward

Our sustainability program FasterForward, includes a range of ambitious activities between 2020 and 2025 that will ensure we become an ever more sustainable, positive impact business.

Sustainability inside commitments

Embedding sustainability inside our products to help our customers advance sustainable development in their areas of expertise:

1. Embed sustainability inside 100% of our products by 2025
2. Help and promote the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through our content

Faster to zero commitments

Moving faster to become a zero waste and net zero carbon business.:

1. Become carbon neutral across our products by 2025
2. Halve the waste generated through our products by 2025
3. Become zero waste and net zero carbon by 2030 or earlier

Impact multiplier commitments

Multiplying the positive impact we can create when we improve access to knowledge, helps people connect more efficiently and invest in our communities:

1. Enable 1 million disconnected people to access networks and knowledge by 2025
2. Contribute value of at least 1% of profit before tax to community groups by 2025
3. Save customers more carbon than we emit by 2025

Reducing plastic with paperwrap

Taylor & Francis has taken a significant step in reducing unnecessary plastic use with the introduction of paperwrap for journal print copies mailed in the U.K.

We spent several months investigating how paperwrap might be applied to journal print runs. Unlike paper envelopes, which can often be torn in transit, paperwrapped journals consistently reached their intended recipient with little or no damage.

Paperwrap is replacing all other packaging for almost all U.K. journal mailings. The materials used in paperwrap come from sustainable sources.

Find out more about how we're becoming a more sustainable business

Publishing Declares

Publishing Declares is a five-point pledge designed to raise awareness of the sustainability issues most relevant to the publishing industry to aid the discovery of existing tools and resources and to inspire action that results in sustained behavior change.

As a founding signatory, we are collaborating with the publishing industry to achieve 5 commitments:

1. Join 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.
2. Protect 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.
3. Collaborate 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.
4. Empower our colleagues to become climate literate and support them to bring that knowledge into the work that they do.
5. Use our expertise, platform, and voice to raise awareness and drive positive climate action wherever we can.

The pledge is the first project in an ongoing scheme of work that will also include a report, carbon calculator, and a materials index.