Editing Cambridge University Press (section)

== Corporate social responsibility ==
[[File:Cambridge University Press's stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018.jpg|thumb|CUP stand at the [[Frankfurt Book Fair]] 2018]]

=== Community ===
The press undertakes community engagement in Cambridge and around the world where there are Press employees. Annually, the press selects a UK Charity of the Year, which has included local charities Centre 33 (2016 and 2017), Rowan Humberstone (2018), and Castle School (2019). In 2016, some of the press's community works included its continued support to [[Westchester Community College]] in New York, the installation of hygienic facilities in an Indonesian rural school, raising funds to rehabilitate earthquake-stricken schools in [[Nepal]], and guiding students from [[Coleridge Community College]], Cambridge in a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]] workshop. On [[World Book Day]] 2016, the press held a digital [[Shakespeare]] publishing workshop for students and their teachers. Similarly, their Indian office conducted a workshop for teachers and students in 17 schools in Delhi to learn the whole process of book publishing. The press donated more than 75,000 books in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report for the year ended 30 April 2016|url=https://www.cambridge.org/files/2914/6979/5859/CUP-Annual-Report-2016.pdf|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref>

An apprenticeship programme for people interested in careers in publishing was established in 2016;<ref>{{cite web | title = Annual Report for the year ended 30 April 2017 | url = https://www.cambridge.org/files/8915/0107/8071/Annual-Report-2017.pdf | access-date = 25 July 2019 }}</ref> by 2022 it had 200 active apprentices in the UK in a wide range of roles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week|url=http://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/insights/Celebrating-National-Apprenticeship-Week|access-date=25 February 2022|website=Cambridge University Press & Assessment|date=7 February 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Building the future|url=http://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/insights/Building-the-future|access-date=25 February 2022|website=Cambridge University Press & Assessment|date=7 February 2022 }}</ref>

=== Environment ===
The press monitors its emissions annually, has converted to energy-saving equipment, minimizes plastic use and ensures that their paper was sourced ethically.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Annual Report for the year ended 30 April 2018
  | url = https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/annual-report/our-people
  | access-date = 25 July 2019 }}</ref>

In 2019, the [[World Wildlife Fund]] awarded its highest score to the press of Three Trees, based on the press's timber purchasing policy, performance statement and its responsible sourcing of timber.<ref>{{cite web | title = WWF Timber Scorecard 2019 | url = https://www.wwf.org.uk/timberscorecard#scorecard-table | access-date = 25 July 2019 }}</ref> The press won the [[Independent Publishers Guild]] Independent Publishing Awards for sustainability in 2020 and in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Independent Publishing Awards |url=https://www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Events/IPA/Independent_Publishing_Awards.aspx|access-date=25 February 2022 |website=Independent Publishers Guild }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2021 winners |url=https://www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Events/Independent-Publishing-Awards/2021/IPG/Events/IPA/2021.aspx?hkey=cad03685-d4c3-4ad6-9ffc-94396751a593|access-date=25 February 2022 |website=Independent Publishers Guild }}</ref> Its public commitments to sustainability include being a signatory of the [[UN Global Compact]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge University Press & Assessment |url=https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants/138719-Cambridge-University-Press-Assessment |access-date=25 February 2022 |website=UN Global Compact}}</ref> and to the goals of the [[Cambridge Zero]] initiative run by the University of Cambridge – to being carbon zero on all energy-related emissions by 2048.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Environment |url=https://www.cambridge.org/people-and-planet/environment |access-date=25 February 2022 |website=Cambridge University Press & Assessment}}</ref>

Cambridge University Press was a signatory of the [[SDG Publishers Compact]],<ref name="members">{{cite web |title=SDG Publishers Compact Members |url=https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact-members/ |website=United Nations Sustainable Development |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="UN">{{cite web |title=SDG Publishers Compact |url=https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/ |website=United Nations Sustainable Development |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref> and has taken steps to support the achievement of the [[Sustainable Development Goals]] (SDGs) in the publishing industry.  
These include publishing a new set of open access journals known as Cambridge Prisms, relevant to the SDGs, that includes ''Coastal Futures'', ''Precision Medicine'', ''Global Mental Health'', ''Extinction'', ''Plastics'',  ''Water'' and  ''Drylands''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cambridge Prisms |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-prisms |website=Cambridge Core |language=en}}</ref> Cambridge also worked with the [[Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers]] (ALPSP) to create the University Press Redux Sustainability Award  in 2020.<ref name="Haseeb">{{cite news |last1=Irfanullah |first1=Haseeb |title=How are Publishing Associations Leading the Way to Meet the SDGs? |url=https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/20/how-are-publishing-associations-leading-the-way-to-meet-the-sdgs/ |work=The Scholarly Kitchen |date=20 February 2023}}</ref> The inaugural award was given to the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD) for its SDG Pathfinder, an open-access digital discovery tool for finding content and data relating to the SDGs.<ref name="OECD">{{cite web |title=OECD Wins Inaugural University Press Redux Sustainability Award |url=https://www.alpsp.org/news/oecd-wins-inaugural-university-press-redux-sustainability-award-july-2020/258626 |website=Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers |date=27 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SDG Pathfinder |url=https://sdg-pathfinder.org/#/ |website=sdg-pathfinder.org}}</ref>