![]() ![]() ![]() The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) is the most important international trade fair of the children’s publishing industry. EIBF Members in turn have in membership booksellers of all kinds: brick and mortar bookshops, online bookshops, independents, chains. The European & International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) represents national booksellers associations in the European Union and beyond. ![]() Today IBBY comprises 79 National Sections worldwide. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization that represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971. ![]() We now have more than 1,300 Members in nearly 150 countries around the world. Founded in 1927 in Edinburgh, Scotland at an international conference, we celebrated our 90th birthday in 2017. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. IPA supports the SDGs and works particularly closely with WIPO and UNESCO. IPA is an accredited NGO in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN. The main mandate of the IPA is to promote and defend copyright, support the freedom to publish, promote literacy and reading. The International Publishers Association (IPA) is a federation of publishing associations from around the world. The SDG Book Club makes content available in the six official languages of the United Nations – please see our other pages for more recommendations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. Our new reading list covers many of these topics and we hope the stories will inspire you to think about ways that you can help improve the community that you live in. Simple changes can have a big impact on our society. Two main ways that every one of us can help is by reducing waste and being thoughtful about where we buy our food and clothes. SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production explores the ways we can help our environment by making changes to our consumption and production patterns. If the world population reaches 9.6 billion by 2050, we would need three planets worth of resources to keep the same lifestyle we have today.ĭid you know that one-third of all the food in the world is wasted or lost? Or that households consume 29% of global energy and contribute to 21% of CO2 emissions? If we don’t change our production and consumption habits, we will cause irreversible damage to our environment. As our economy and society progress, the natural resources that we depend on begin to run out. We rely on many natural resources in order to survive. SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Productionĭo you know where your food and water come from? How about where the waste goes once you’re done eating? Do you know how much energy you use when you leave the lights on in your room for the whole day? ![]()
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