On March 22, 2023, representatives of all paper and print partners of the Carbon Balanced Paper programme gathered online to discover the latest updates on the programme, as well as listen to Emma Douglas, Director of Development at World Land Trust (WLT), and Richard Cuthbert, Director of Conservation at WLT, as they explained how the environmental charity uses funds raised by the Carbon Balanced Print and Paper programme to protect areas of threatened land all over the world.
Opening the meeting, Carbon Balanced Partnership Manager Paul Opie provided an overview of the programme and how much it’s grown in the past 12 months. Since the last meeting in 2022, the number of carbon balanced printers has increased to 55, while the number of brands the programme engages with has reached over 5,000.
“In addition,” Paul said. “The amount of paper carbon balanced by the programme has gone up by 20%, from 80,000 tonnes in 2021 to 95,000 tonnes in 2022.”
Carbon balanced printers are also receiving a large amount of attention from the industry for their environmental values, with the recent Printweek awards featuring many in their list of 2023 award nominees. “It’s really exciting that of the 17 different categories within the Printweek awards, 11 contained carbon balanced printer nominees,” explained Paul. “Two of them went on to be highly commended, while five were announced as winners, including Go Inspire, who won Environmental Company of the Year.”
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