Business partnerships in a sustainable world
Today, consumers and advertisers are focusing heavily on ESG propositions. The publishing industry has responded with increased news coverage about the climate crisis – but what happens internally? Many publishing companies have increased their internal efforts around sustainability, focusing heavily on ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – propositions.
In this context, the ‘E’ or Environmental criteria is becoming even more important for the print and procurement activities, given the high CO2 emissions originating in the production processes along the value chain. Nevertheless, the “S” and “G” criteria are not to be neglected in our global context.
This year’s summit will address the key issues along the value chain such as sustainable print production, increasing energy efficiencies, making printing plants carbon neutral, implementing sustainable procurement policies and procedures for printed newspapers.
Programme Committee
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Newsprint availability and price volatility has a major impact on the printed product. What are the trends? Where is the newsprint market headed? How does sustainability affect publishers and their paper purchases?
Panel of newsprint executives talk about sustainable energy sourcing and how CO2 footprint of paper can be reduced. Publishers are focused on this topic.
Dr. Has will focus on carbon neutrality in his presentation. He will do this by inspecting the life cycles of products such as: raw materials, supply chain, product design, use, disposal and second life.
Mr. Migotsch from Suddeutsche Zeitung and Mr. Pietras from Axel Springer verlag will share their company’s journey and experiences.
Mr. Wells, will present the Special Report of WAN-IFRA and its French and German partners on the operational, economic and supply implications of changing to MOF inks. This issue bears increasing importance through regulatory or voluntary commitment to change.
A panel discussion will follow the presentation.
Part 1: Christian Staab – BorgWarner
BorgWarner is a spare part supplier for the automotive industry. With the arrival of the electric car the supplier field has been disrupted quite a bit. Mr. Staab will discuss the challenges his company is facing and how they plan to attack them.
Part 2: Lennert Van Mens – Commercebank
Mr. Van Mens will discuss how Commercebank has transformed after disruption in the banking sector. How will sustainability be both a challange and opportunity for companies to do better both environmentally and financially.
Lars Peters, Director of Energy management Bertelsmann Printing group discusses how Bertelsmann has reduced their energy consumption with series of action in order so save resources. Q&A will follow, moderated by Andreas Gierth.
Enjoy an evening in a typical Frankfurt restaurant with apple wine and Frankfurter Schnitzel
We will look at the printed newspaper 5 years from now and speculate how things will have developed technologically as well as with other resources.
A Q&A will follow the presentations.
The session will provide an indication of what is coming up, the priorities of news media executives as they plan for a sustainable future for news media.
