The year 2023 is the exact midpoint of the ‘SDG era’ — a period that started in 2016 after the world’s governments agreed upon the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Framework for the next 15 years. Scholarly publishers have been publishing research on sustainable development and sustainability since long before then, but a collective, global effort by the publishing industry to support the SDGs only started in October 2020 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This effort, known as the SDG Publishers Compact, is a joint initiative of the UN and the International Publishers Association (IPA). By becoming a signatory to the Compact now, a publisher, a journal, an academic institution, or a publishers association promises to implement 10 action points to take the SDG implementation forward over the next eight years or so.
Author(s)
Haseeb Irfanullah
Publisher
The Scholarly Kitchen
Categories
Article, E&S Committee