2023-07-15 11:11:00
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MEDIA LETTER. Ebra, owner of “Progrès” and “Dauphiné Libéré”, “Le Monde” and “Le Point” are taking action to reduce their CO2 emissions.
By Olivier Ubertalli The regional dailies have carried out tests of vegetable-based inks (Illustration image). © SIA KAMBOU / AFP Published on 07/15/2023 at 11:11 am
French newspapers today preach the environmental good word with lengthy articles. Large sections are devoted to the ecological transition, the green economy and the responsible behaviors to adopt in order to curb global warming.
But what about the press groups themselves? In what ways are they committed to reducing their carbon footprint? From an ecological point of view, the press faces two main challenges. When it is not distributed in digital form, it is by nature very paper-consuming and greedy in transport in order to deliver copies of newspapers as close as possible to French people who wish to be informed.
“Half of our carbon footprint, which is 75,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, goes into paper and tr…
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