Environmental Sustainability FAQs

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Office Emissions: We continue to move our people into modern, more energy-efficient and dynamic workspaces. Our investment in campuses around the world will, by 2025, bring 85,000 of our people together in at least 65 net-zero campuses running on electricity from renewable sources. Our strategy focuses on repurposing old, iconic buildings where we reuse as much of the structure and fittings as we can to retain embodied carbon and limit impact. When we acquire any new premises larger than 50,000 square feet, we aim for that space to be certified to an internationally recognised standard such as the US LEED standard or the UK BREEAM standard. We aim to select, design and run our offices in a way that promotes sustainability and wellbeing. In 2022, with our architecture firm BDG, we created a new ESG building assessment tool to help us identify opportunities to reduce energy use, optimise resource use, support our employees' wellbeing needs and create opportunities for circular business models in our materials' use.

Electricity: WPP is committed to sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. We are a member of RE100, a global initiative bringing together businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity to accelerate change towards zero carbon grids at scale. We made significant progress during 2022, purchasing 83% of our electricity from renewable sources (2021: 74%). Copy answer

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In 2022 we purchased credits to offset our air travel through Climate Impact Partners, a specialist in carbon market solutions for climate action. During the year we supported three clean cooking projects in Bangladesh, India and Kenya. Together, these projects support ten of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

To offset emissions from air travel we have been purchasing high-quality carbon credits since 2007 and have permanently retired 1.65 million carbon credits, which are charged to each of our agencies to create an internal carbon cost. Copy answer

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- Achieving net zero in our own operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2025 and across our supply chain (Scope 3) by 2030, including emissions from media buying – an industry first.
- Reducing absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 84% by 2025 and absolute Scope 3 emissions – including media buying – by 50% by 2030, both from a 2019 base year.
- Sourcing 100% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
- Phase out single-use plastics in our offices. Copy answer

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Though our business model inherently facilitates the contributions of others to an ecofriendly second-hand economy, we are determined to further reduce the impact of our business practices on the environment. Since January 2021, we have worked with external analysts to monitor our monthly energy use and regularly consider ways to become more energy efficient. This analysis considers the energy use from our operations and other areas, including vehicle emissions from business-related activity. Since April 2022, using the information gathered in analyses of our carbon footprint, we began minimising our carbon emissions by migrating the platform’s infrastructure to Google cloud and reviewing our physical office setup.
To support both the business and broader stakeholders in our aim to reach net zero by 2030, we are committed to publishing annual research to provide insight into the state of the circular economy and demonstrate how we can shift from fast to slower/more sustainable consumption. Copy answer

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Reduce our carbon emissions to net zero by 2030. Copy answer

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Committed via SBTi short term 30% emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2045. Copy answer

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We offset via Climate Partners Carbon Neutral Protocol. We offset Scope 1 & 2 emissions plus business travel and staff commuting. We have purchased offsets from the following projects: The Plastic Bank Project (worldwide), an Assisted Natural Regeneration Scheme in Ethiopia and wind energy development in Ovalle, Chile. Copy answer

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Our mission is to achieve net-zero, whilst harnessing the power of our brands to inspire sustainable living. We are committed to driving change across four main pillars:
1) Managing our impact
2) Championing Sustainable Sourcing and reducing waste
3) Driving change beyond our operational boundaries
4) Being a platform for change. Our net zero pathway is 30% reduction of emissions by 2030 and 90% reduction of emissions to reach net zero by 2045. Copy answer

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We have set specific objectives, which include:
- Enforcing a flexible remote work policy
- Limiting work travel wherever possible to favour online meetings, and using public transport (trains, buses) to attend in-person meetings, regardless of the distance

Targets In alignment with our goals, we have established the following specific targets:
- Conduct energy audits for all facilities each year starting 2022
- Monitor and report energy performance annually Copy answer

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As a company, we focus our efforts and resources on the reduction and limitation of emissions across all our operations. Copy answer

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Our core mission is to help advertisers, agencies, adtech and adnetworks reduce their environmental impact, focusing first on carbon reduction. We focus not only on our own company operational sustainability, but also on how to help industry players to reduce their impact. We have also policies in place today which aim to help us minimise our 3 scopes emissions for our operations.​ Copy answer

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Our plan is to undertake an emissions audit in Q1. With the GHG inventory report we plan to put in place reduction measures over 2024 with long term goal is to achieve B Corp. Copy answer

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Opt for eco friendly food/drink/stationary where possible in business meetings and office food. Actively encourage employees to stay in eco-friendly hotels whilst travelling. Encourage, where possible, for employees to travel via international rail rather than flying. Nano will reduce taxi use for business travel by 50%. Ad Net Zero training available for all staff. Copy answer

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We conducted a sustainability audit across Scope 1, 2 and 3 in order to understand our impact thoroughly. Our priority is to use this data to deliver reductions in emissions across all possible areas of the business. Where reduction is not possible we will look to offset our emissions in sustainable, compliant, and appropriate ways. Copy answer

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The vast majority of energy-saving “quick wins” have been implemented, however, energy-efficiency working groups at Newsprinters and our headquarters at London Bridge continue to work to try to identify opportunities for saving energy. Working closely with the facilities teams, we utilise our BMS systems to interrogate our energy usage data and identify innovations that can increase energy efficiency, including changes to plant operation times, altered set points and new equipment, such as LED lighting. Copy answer

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As part of News Corp, News UK is committed to the following environmental sustainability objectives: 65% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030 from a 2016 baseline (Science-Based Target) 25% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2030 from a 2021 baseline (Science-Based Target) Achieve net zero emissions by 2050 Source 100% of publication paper from certified sources by 2025. Copy answer