34 ITV plc Annual Report and Accounts 2023 ITV plc Annual Report and Accounts 2023 35 S SOCIAL PURPOSE CONTINUED T R A T E G I C R E Supporting the next generation in our industry, Shows with the biggest impact on audiences and P O R BETTER across the UK and around the world. CLIMATE the smallest impact on the planet. T Futures SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Action OUR GOALS – Net Zero: Reducing emissions we control by 46.2% and those we can influence by 28% by 2030, and all emissions by 90% by 2050 – 100% sustainable supply chain by 2030 – Zero Waste by 2030 – 100% albert certified and trained each year – Increase visibility and impact of climate action content on-screen SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Mentoring and volunteering Encouraging The Daily Mile In 2023 ITV continued its mentoring ITV continued its partnership with The partnership with Creative Access, an actions to improve Daily Mile encouraging schoolchildren to organisation that helps people from children’s physical do 15 minutes of daily exercise to tackle under-represented communities access lowering levels of physical activity in careers and progress to leadership in the health children in the UK. The ‘Thrive’ campaign Context time. Energy-efficiency measures in our creative industries. re-ran in September and October, hub sites, including LED lighting, motion Zero Waste highlighting the positive impact of daily As the impacts of climate change sensors and solar energy generation, ITV colleagues were also involved in Eat Them To Defeat Them exercise in improving mood and memory, worsen and the transition to a have driven the reduction in Scope 1 and We are continuously taking steps to training workshops, including Media Now in its fifth year, ITV continued its as well as attention in class. sustainable economy accelerates, it is 2 emissions. improve our data quality and monitor Trust’s Creativity Work’s: Multimedia award-winning partnership with Veg increasingly important for companies waste in our offices and production Training programme and ITV Academy’s Power to encourage children to eat more THE RESULTS to integrate climate action into strategic activities, all while working towards a Creative Access Showcase in decision making. THE RESULTS circular economy from office equipment vegetables. Sky and Channel 4 together Manchester. matched ITV’s airtime commitment, 32,730 more children took up to props. enabling a £3 million media campaign, To address this, we are publishing our Our Scope 1 & 2 emissions THE RESULTS the Daily Mile as a result of the initial Climate Transition Plan alongside have decreased by 52% since with additional funding from an alliance campaign On-screen of supermarket and food brands. the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts. our baseline year 90 mentoring partnerships This details how we will transform ITV Nearly half a million to meet our ambitious targets, while As a founding signatory of the Climate and 559 hours of mentoring THE RESULTS 69% of our electricity comes Content Pledge, ITV is committed to children have signed up to using our reach and influence to took place in 2023. There have inspire behaviour change in audiences. from renewable energy doing more to reach and engage been 340 partnerships since 77% of parents whose The Daily Mile since ITV began For more information on our climate audiences with climate action content. 1 children took part in the school supporting the campaign in action progress, refer to our Shows from Daytime to The Masked the scheme began Reducing our Scope 3 Singer and Love Island incorporate campaigns said they ate more April 20193 2023 Social Purpose Impact report. emissions (influenced by ITV) climate content. vegetables as a result Targets, data and governance ITV’s Scope 3 footprint has decreased by £132m veg sales as a direct Soccer Aid for UNICEF We are continuously improving our data. 17% compared to our baseline year. Biodiversity 1. Data supplied by Creative Access result of our Eat Them To 2023 saw the 12th Soccer Aid for UNICEF ITV’s Scope 1 and 2 (controlled by ITV) and Scope 3 (influenced by ITV) Business Travel emissions have We recognise how critical it is for 2. Data supplied by Veg Power Defeat Them campaign since match, marking 17 years of the ITV and increased by 13% compared to 2022, but 3. Daily Mile school registrations, data UNICEF partnership. Teams of former emissions for 2023 were independently businesses to address the biodiversity provided by The Daily Mile it launched in 20192 assured by ERM Certification and remain below pre-COVID-19 levels with crisis. In preparation for future reporting professional footballers and celebrities a 45% reduction compared to 2019. ITV came together to raise money for Verification Services Limited (ERM CVS), requirements, we are reviewing the and we have published an updated Basis is introducing prompts to our booking actions we can take across our UNICEF’s work helping children who are system to encourage colleagues to facing conflict, disasters, and other of Reporting document. Our Scope 3 production activities, supply chain data quality is improving thanks to more choose lower emission travel. engagement and office improvements crises around the world. company–level data into our calculations to manage our nature related and engagement with our supply chain. Purchased Goods and Services are dependencies, risks and opportunities. The match took place in front of over the largest contributor to ITV’s Scope 3 63,000 fans and was broadcast emissions; of these, 65% come from our exclusively on ITV and STV. Reducing our emissions productions. We use BAFTA albert Reducing our Scope 1 and 2 sustainability certification to tackle this THE RESULTS emissions (controlled by ITV) and work with broadcasting peers to ITV’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions are support sector-wide change. £14.6 million raised in total decreasing on track with our targets, from the match and Soccer with a 52% reduction compared to our THE RESULTS Aid week TV specials. Over baseline year. Our market-based Scope £90 million has been raised 2 figures have reduced by 28% since their Our Scope 3 emissions have since the start of Soccer Aid apparent spike in 2022 which arose from decreased by 17% since our limited evidence around renewable baseline year energy sources for several sites at the