The GBA is proud to sign onto the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Publisher’s Compact.
According the United Nations,
This Compact is designed to inspire action among publishers. Launched in collaboration with the International Publishers Association, the Compact 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.
As an advocate of local book publishers, the GBA plans to leverage its role as an alliance to convene partners to develop, localize and scale book supply chain projects that will advance progress on SDG 4, Quality Education.
GBA members can help by raising awareness about the essential contribution that the book publishing industry makes to achieving SDG4 within their organizations and education programming.