Increasingly, global book industry standards – such as ONIX and Thema – are being adopted worldwide with a view to bettering international communications, discoverability, and increasing sales. But what does this mean for the book industry’s supply chain? What is the scale of our industry’s carbon footprint and its consumption of plastic? How can your organisation increase its sustainability whilst reducing its overall environmental impact? And what does the future hold? This online Green BIC Brunch will explore these questions, and will explore a number of key concerns highlighted in the results of a recent Publishing Scotland survey as follows:

- Shipping and distribution
- Waste and packaging (including plastics)
- Production – printing, inks, materials.

This Green BIC Brunch will be of interest to all publishers, booksellers, distributors, freight forwarders, production teams, data aggregators, systems vendors: anyone interested in improving the environment by making their supply chains greener.

The Host
- Karina Urquhart, Executive Director, BIC

The Speakers
- Gregory Fitzgerald, Business Services Manager, Bell & Bain Ltd, (Glasgow)
- Jaki Hawker, Academic Manager, Blackwell's Bookshops, (Edinburgh)
- Emma Holak, Production Editorial Manager, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- John Thompson, Head of Site Services, HarperCollins Distribution, (Glasgow )