Paper is the point in HGB’s new report, with 95 percent of the company’s carbon footprint accounted for by paper–amid efforts in responsible sourcing a now two-year focus. Hachette Book Group, in its new environmental progress report, stresses its commitment to FSC and SFI certification in sourcing paper with ‘aggressive fiber testing’ outside of the PREPS initiative. Image – iStockphoto: K Thalhofer Annual Reduction Goal: 2.5 Percent As Publishing Perspectives readers will remember, on Thursday (April 8), we covered Springer Nature’s report on its commercial and corporate social responsibility activity for 2020 including its environmental impact assessment. Today (April 14), one of the Big Five trade houses, the Hachette Book Group USA, has issued an “environmental progress report,” for 2019 and 2020. As might be anticipated, there was a major reduction in the company’s carbon footprint under the conditions of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, paper costs tipped the balance the other way.