Lagardere S A : Hachette Livre publishes its first CSR report for France, outlining the achievements of 2021 and the outlook for 2022

Hachette Livre publishes its first CSR report for France, outlining the achievements of 2021 and the outlook for 2022

Conscious of its accountability as a number one writer, and with a long-standing dedication to environmental, social and societal points, Hachette Livre has unveiled its first CSR report for France.

Hachette Livre’s CSR division has listed the entire initiatives and actions carried out by the corporate on three themes:

• Environmental issues : Hachette Livre was the primary publishing group to conduct a carbon footprint in 2009 and has made vital progress since then, with a 20% discount in carbon emissions in 12 years. For the longer term, the Group is dedicated to decreasing the usage of plastic by 25% by 2030; it is usually creating eco-design practices to restrict over-manufacturing;
• Social issues : the Group is dedicated to the well-being of all its staff, in addition to gender equality and inclusion: extra than1,000 staff have been skilled on the problems ofsexism and sexual harassment within the office in 2021, the group created its “Mission Handicap” in 2014, an inner community specializing in offering an inclusive office for folks dwelling with disabilities, it reached a gender equality rating of 96/100 in 2021; from 2023, all managers will likely be skilled in inclusive administration;
• Societal issues, because the Group is concerned in concrete and impactful tasks for all audiences: with the creation of the Fondation Hachette pour la lecture, to help and fund tasks to advertise studying and writing, with improvements to make contents accessible to individuals who can’t learn or who’ve studying difficulties, and thru it participation in and financing of the Educapital II funding fund, as a way to promote essentially the most accessible, inclusive and efficient schooling attainable.

On the power of those achievements, the Group is constant on its trajectory and can additional its CSR coverage by beginning to work now on the 2030 objectives, significantly with regard to carbon emissions. As a participant in an inclusive and dedicated society, Hachette Livre will proceed its lively mobilization, due to its groups and thru its publishing homes, all of that are extensively concerned, to supply concrete responses to the key CSR challenges of the current and the longer term.

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