"La acción mundial por el clima aparece como una de las prioridades, cuando no como la principal prioridad, de la agenda internacional. […] Los países deberán implementar planes de acción multidimensionales que contendrán regulaciones orientadas a que las distintas industrias minimicen al má
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ximo sus impactos medioambientales, incluida, por supuesto, la industria editorial. No resulta exagerado señalar, por tanto, que esta transición hacia prácticas mucho menos nocivas para el medio ambiente constituye uno de los mayores retos que deberá enfrentar el sector editorial en un plazo que puede ser más corto de lo que se piensa. El desafío es mayúsculo porque no solo se trata de utilizar papeles que cumplan unos estándares determinados, que es lo que se suele tener en mente cuando se habla de edición ecológica o ecoedición, sino que implica calcular y mitigar los impactos ambientales del libro desde el proceso de edición hasta su llegada a manos de los lectores. Con este dosier, el Cerlalc busca contribuir a instalar este tema en los sectores editoriales de sus países miembro. Los artículos aquí reunidos ofrecen elementos para entender las múltiples dimensiones del impacto ambiental de la industria editorial y dan algunas pistas para empezar a pensar una hoja de ruta de a cara a la transición. Es, en cualquier caso, una primera aproximación, que esperamos sirva para iniciar un diálogo entre las partes interesadas. Como se señala en uno de los artículos, la ecoedición no es solo medir, mitigar y comunicar los impactos ambientales de la edición, producción y comercialización de un libro, sino que es también un acuerdo del sector." (Editorial, páginas 5-7)
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"Esta quinta edición de la Memoria de Sostenibilidad del Sector Papel es la materialización de nuestro doble y prioritario compromiso con la sostenibilidad y la transparencia. El documento que editamos cada tres años cubre en esta ocasión el periodo 2015-2017, a lo largo del que se han producido
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importantes avances en aspectos singularmente relevantes para nuestro sector como la certificación de la gestión forestal sostenible, el proceso de descarbonización en que estamos trabajando, la consolidación de un potente ciclo inversor en innovación y renovación tecnológica o las nuevas iniciativas de promoción del reciclaje en el marco de la economía circular. El sector comparte una clara visión como bioindustria circular llamada a liderar la descarbonización de nuestra economía, siendo una de las industrias con mayor capacidad para afrontar este reto a través de la innovación en productos y procesos, atrayendo talento y capital para alcanzar este ambicioso objetivo." (Página 3)
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"This fascinating book looks at every aspect of paper: its history, composition, production, application, and trade. Beginning with the anatomy of paper and its earliest forms, this book looks at paper as a symbol of political and economic importance and as a carrier of ideas, from literature to art
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, design, and music. It looks at the different surfaces, opacities, weights and volumes of paper and how it is used for printing, typography, graphics, and maps as well as a vehicle for origami, architecture, and fashion. Sumptuously illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book includes a variety of papers for readers to examine and feel, highlighting the sensual aspects of this seemingly ordinary product." (Publisher description)
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"The production of paper is both resource intensive and highly polluting. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the pulp and paper industry is the third-largest industrial consumer of energy and the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases among manufacturers. According to the U.S. Environme
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ntal Protection Agency, the industry is third among industrial sectors in the release of toxic chemicals to air and fourth in the release of toxic chemicals to water. In the United States, environmental regulations are fairly well enforced; such enforcement is not guaranteed in other countries, particularly developing countries, where more and more paper is being made. Most paper is not recycled and is instead thrown out, making up a third of the municipal waste stream. As the paper deteriorates in landfills, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide. According to the U.S. EPA, municipal landfills are the largest source of human-related methane emissions, and a significant share of these emissions is generated by the decomposition of paper. Conscientious publishers will want to do all they can to minimize the harmful environmental effects of publication printing. Aside from simply printing less - which will happen as more publications go digital - publishers should do three things: Maximize recycled content; Maximize use of certified virgin fibers; Choose greener production." (Page 1)
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"Paper for printing purposes (other than newsprint) and writing paper: production, main trends, production in each continent — Exports and imports: main exporting countries, comparison between exports and imports — Second work in a series of Unesco studies concerning the previous situation and t
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he future demand for paper." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1702, topic code 141)
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"The long-term growth in the world demand for newsprint is assured. No one can foretell the rate of expansion or the demand levels likely to be established in ten or twenty years. If the estimates for newsprint consumption given in Chapter V for the medium term are accepted, world demand should at l
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east be 10 million tons by 1955. According to these estimates the regional distribution would be as follows:- North America, 5 millions tons; Europe 3 million tons; Latin America 600,000 tons; Asia 750,000 tons; Russia 300,000 tons; Oceania 250,000 tons; Africa and Near East 150,000 tons. A large speculative element attaches to these estimates, but insofar as they err they are likely to do so on the low side. In particular the conservative assumption made for North America may have to be modified. The significant point is that, on virtually any showing, the demand for newsprint in the medium term is certain to exceed both current world production at 8 million tons and existing world capacity estimated at 9 million tons a year. Full utilisation of idle newsprint capacity amounting to 1 million tons would probably end the present newsprint shortage. But it would be sanguine to expect that every ton of idle plant can, in fact, be used, or that 100 per cent capacity operations can be attained soon. The chances are that by the time production in the under-employed newsprint industries is raised to capacity, demand may also have risen. Although the world shortage of papermaking materials may be less serious than was at one time feared, local shortages are likely to persist, especially in regions where increasing demands for all classes of printing papers, generated by industrialisation, the spread of literacy and the growth in political consciousness, have stimulated the establishment of new pulp and paper industries." (Conclusion, page 110)
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