The new Sustainability Lounge at London Book Fair—its concept led by Elsevier’s Rachel Martin—will run throughout the week.

‘We Need Publishers To Be Catalysts of Action’

Rachel Martin, the global director of sustainability at Amsterdam’s Elsevier, says that the arrival of the United Nations’ latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has raised the alarm to its necessary pitch.

“We are not on track to limit warming to 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) or even 2.0 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit),” the report tells us.