RENARD PRESS feels strongly that, in 2025, we cannot ignore our impact on the planet, so the following are the biggest areas we feel need addressing in the industry – and this, our promise to our readers, outlines what we’re doing to look after our environment. If you have any questions, please do get in touch.
We’re proud to be able to say that we’re one of the UK’s only climate-positive publishers, meaning we take more carbon out of the air than we put in. You can find out more about this below. ↓
Climate-positive publishing
There is no denying the climate crisis, and we all have a part to play in fixing the problem.
Renard is proud to be one of the UK’s first climate-positive publishers, which means we take more carbon out of the air than we put in.
• We reduce our emissions, we use green energy, we work with suppliers with green credentials and we cut out waste in our supply chain and production
• We calculate the carbon that has not been offset by a supplier and doubly offset it using gold-standard schemes
• We print locally – all our books are printed in the UK; or, for bookshops in other countries, we partner with local printers to avoid air freight
• We are part of several industry sustainability action groups, and knowledge-share with others to drive change
• We pay attention to the footprint of our digital operations, choosing to work with planet-first carbon-neutral B Corp Krystal for our website hosting.
• We replant trees that have been felled to make our books and choose the most eco materials available
• We plant a tree for every order we receive via our website, creating a forest with Ecologi
Sustainable Development Goals
We are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. Launched in collaboration with the International Publishers Association, the Compact is designed to inspire action among publishers and aims to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs during the Decade of Action (2020–2030), publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop, and inspire action in that direction.
In signing the Compact we commit to actively promoting and publishing on themes represented by the Sustainable Development Goals, and we will help to spread the word about and encourage adoption of the SDGs among those we work with.