Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Diversity
• Human Rights
• Employee Matters
• Anti-corruption and Anti-bribery
• Social Matters
• Environmental Matters

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced GHG emissions (scope 1, 2 – market-based) by 4.0% year-on-year to 51,000 tonnes in 2017.
• Inaugurated RTL City, a new energy-efficient headquarters in Luxembourg.

Social Achievements

• Raised €21,014,005 for charity during flagship events.
• Donated €4,727,830 to numerous charity initiatives and corporate foundations.
• Broadcasted 67,432 hours of subtitled, signed and audio-described programmes in 2017.

Governance Achievements

• Updated the RTL Group Anti-Corruption Policy in November 2017.
• Established a Group-wide guidelines that define its criteria for donations, sponsorship and memberships.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Maintaining editorial independence in challenging political environments (e.g., Hungary).
• Protecting intellectual property rights in the digital world.
• Ensuring brand safety in the digital advertising landscape.
• Compliance with GDPR.

Mitigation Strategies

• Established a UGC verification team to combat fake news.
• Actively lobbies for legislation to close gaps in copyright protection.
• Investing in countermeasures against threats to data security.
• Established a Privacy Office and adopted a Privacy and General Data Protection Policy to comply with GDPR.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• RTL Group Business Partner Principles

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Awards & Recognition

• Luxembourg Health Ministry’s Healthy Workplace Award
• European Network for Workplace Health Promotion’s Models of Good Practice Award
• FTSE4Good Index Series

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Diversity
• Climate Change
• Creative/Editorial Independence
• Intellectual Property and Copyright
• Fair Working Conditions

Environmental Achievements

• Continued work with Group-wide Climate Task Force on greener productions to reduce carbon footprint.
• Aiming to become carbon neutral (company-related CO2 emissions) by 2025 and fully carbon neutral by 2030.

Social Achievements

• Fremantle partnered with The TV Collective on the Breakthrough Leaders programme, supporting 150 black, Asian and minority-ethnic future leaders.
• RTL Deutschland initiated its first diversity week focusing on LGBTIQ+ people.
• RTL Deutschland's original film "Weil wir Champions sind" featured nine actors with disabilities.
• RTL Nederland launched the drag entertainment show "Make Up Your Mind" and released seasons of the gay dating show "Prince Charming."
• RTL-Spendenmarathon in Germany raised over €41 million for children in need.
• Télévie charity events in Luxembourg raised over €2 million for cancer research.

Governance Achievements

• Progress towards increasing the share of female executives in top and senior management to 40% by 2025.
• Updated and streamlined policies including anti-corruption and integrity, anti-trust and compliance organization.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• War in Ukraine, inflation, rising energy prices, and supply chain disruptions.
• Decreasing advertising markets in Germany and France.
• Higher streaming start-up losses.
• Decreasing advertising and circulation revenue in the publishing business.
• Increased cost of paper due to the war in Ukraine.
• Failed merger plans in France and the Netherlands due to competition authorities.
• Slower-than-expected growth in the addressable TV advertising market.

Mitigation Strategies

• Cost control and portfolio management.
• Investments in premium content, streaming services, advertising technology, and addressable TV.
• Focus on core brands in the publishing business and investment in their digital transformation (€80 million by 2025).
• Focus on alliances, partnerships, and smaller consolidation opportunities.
• Expanding cross-media offers (e.g., RTL+ Musik app).
• Significant investments in Fremantle (€3 billion revenue target by 2025).

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Content Responsibility
• Creative/Editorial Independence and Freedom of Expression
• Intellectual Property and Copyright
• Fair Working Conditions
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
• Health, Safety and Wellbeing
• Learning (including digital media literacy)
• Climate Change

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced total emissions by 28% from 247,900 tCO2 in 2018 to 178,900 tCO2 in 2022. 20 productions meeting minimum ecological standards were produced, saving around 50% of emissions on average.
• Top Chef (Groupe M6) received an Ecoprod Label for sustainable production practices.
• Ufa (Fremantle) won the Eisvogel prize for Sustainable Film Production with its series Irgendwas mit Medien.
• Unter uns (Ufa) earned a green motion label.

Social Achievements

• Launched ten employee-led groups focusing on mental health, wellbeing, accessibility, race and ethnicity at Fremantle.
• RTL Deutschland initiated its second diversity week (Woche der Vielfalt) with a focus on inclusion.
• Fremantle continued partnerships with organizations addressing under-representation in creative industries (e.g., The TV Collective, All of Us, WomenUp, Fresh Films).
• Employee survey showed high satisfaction in areas like respect from managers (93%), independent tasks (89%), and support through challenges (87%).
• RTL Group's overall workforce is balanced by gender (47% men, 53% women). Women account for 37% of top management positions and 37% of senior management positions.

Governance Achievements

• RTL Group updated and streamlined its policies, including anti-corruption and integrity, anti-trust, and compliance organization in 2022.
• Established a Supplier Code of Conduct (to be rolled out in 2024) and a Human Rights statement in 2022.
• RTL Group’s Executive Committee adopted RTL Group’s Supplier Code of Conduct.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Reducing indirect emissions from video production (scope 3), which represent almost 80% of total emissions.
• Improving support for professional development (54% employee satisfaction) and total compensation (40% employee satisfaction).
• Increasing the share of women in top and senior management positions to 40% by the end of 2025.

Mitigation Strategies

• RTL Group will focus on reducing scope 3 emissions through green productions and a new Group-wide policy based on activity data.
• RTL Group is committed to fair and gender-blind pay and flexible working arrangements.
• RTL Group set a quantitative target to increase the share of women in top and senior management positions to at least 40% by the end of 2025.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• RTL Group Business Partner Principles (to be replaced by Supplier Code of Conduct in 2024)

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Awards & Recognition

• Eisvogel prize for Sustainable Film Production (Ufa)
• Ecoprod Label (Top Chef)
• Green motion label (Unter uns, Pumuckl’s New Adventures)