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Sustainability in Media – Organising Level

Insights & Next Steps with Dot Group

Thank you for completing our Sustainability in Media Survey!

Your contribution is crucial in helping us to better understand the current landscape of sustainability initiatives within the media industry.

Explore our curated resources to learn more about sustainable media practices and discover actionable steps you can take. Our resources include case studies and expert insights that will give you a deeper understanding of how sustainability in media works and how you can apply these insights into your business.

> Personalised Report
> Your Sustainability Action Plan​​
> The Dot Approach to ESG Reporting
> Putting together the Green Team​​
> External Resources​​

Personalised Report

Based on your responses to our survey questions, we will put together a customised report that shows where you are on your sustainability journey as well as how you performed among all survey takers. The reports come with suggestions on taking positive steps. Please note that in order to provide the most comprehensive and comparative insights, the delivery of your report will be scheduled once we have reached a threshold level of responses. This ensures that your results are benchmarked accurately alongside those of your peers, offering a more meaningful analysis.

Our team at Dot Group is ready to assist you on your sustainability journey. With expert insights as well as industry-leading tools, we can provide you with the support that will help you to reach your sustainability targets. Together, we will shape a more sustainable media industry.

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The world at large is fast becoming concerned at the irreparable damage climate change is causing and wants to see all its industries behaving responsibly.

– Barbara Lange “Tackling sustainability in data management”

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Your Sustainability Action Plan

Phase 1: Starting Point

Align vision with strategy: understand the leadership commitment and the company’s sustainability vision and align these to the business strategy.

Form a Green Team: put together representatives from cross departments to ensure a holistic approach and nominate a leader / project manager. 

Define sustainability goals: identify all relevant metrics and most appropriate ESG reporting framework. 

Initial assessment: conduct an initial assessment to set a baseline.

Phase 2: Set the plan

Develop and implement sustainability policies and practices: including energy efficiency measures, waste reduction strategies, ethical sourcing, and employee well-being programs.

Engage stakeholders: using the Green Team, engage all relevant stakeholders and establish communication and training.  

Leverage technology: streamline accurate data collection, reporting processes and analysis to obtain insights.  

Celebrate your achievements!

750k

According to albert, a sustainability project of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), a single hour of television produces 13 metric tons of carbon dioxide—which would potentially account for the loss of 780,000 square meters of sea ice per year.

4000

A 2006 UCLA study found that a single soundstage constructed from luaun plywood can be responsible for destroying as much as 4,000 hectares of rainforest.

1/3

Nearly one-third of content on cable in the US doesn’t have parity representation of people of color, women, or the LGBTIQ+ community, according to a 2020 Nielsen study.

Green Team

Forming Your Green Team

A workplace green team can be a driving force toward a greener, more just future. By uniting passionate individuals, setting achievable goals and collaborating with all departments, it can ignite positive change and build community.

Start by selecting a systainability leader. Include one member of each department, including engineering, sales, marketing, product development, procurement/purchasing, human resources, etc.

Key Functional Leads for your Green Team

Sustainability Director / Head of Sustainability

  • Develops and executes the company’s sustainability strategy.
  • Manages sustainability reporting and sets key performance indicators for corporate responsibility.
  • Monitors progress towards sustainability targets.

Chief Sustainability Officer

  • Creates and leads corporate sustainability strategies.
  • Identifies and addresses sustainability risks.
  • Develops initiatives to reduce ecological impact and carbon emissions, focusing on energy, water, waste, materials reuse, and pollution reduction.

Chief Compliance and ESG Officer

  • Oversees ESG reporting and stakeholder engagement.
  • Manages ESG risks and opportunities.
  • Ensures alignment of ESG efforts with investor and regulatory expectations.

Sustainability Specialist / Manager 

  • Enhances organisational processes based on best sustainability practices.
  • Develops and manages sustainability project plans and goals.
  • Provides technical and administrative support for sustainability programs.
  • Monitors and reports on sustainability metrics.
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Sustainability is a subject that has an overall understanding but generally not a thorough understanding. Many people do not realise that this topic is mature and moved on from its grass roots level. Sustainability needs to be taken seriously because it impacts the demonstrates a safe investment option for investors.

– European Broadcasting Union (EBU) “Sustainability Fundamentals”

Joining the Dots: our approach to fast-track your ESG journey

Discovery & Consultation:

  1. Define your data strategy objectives and ESG’s position within it.
  2. Understand your unique ESG challenges and reporting requirements.
  3. Evaluate your business’s current ESG readiness.

Planning & Implementation:

  1. Map ESG requirements to data management capabilities.
  2. Develop the data management, reporting and analytics target operating model.
  3. Design a detailed ESG management, analytics, and reporting blueprint.
  4. Implementation using advanced data management software.

Reporting, Optimising & Improving:

  1. Continuously refine analysis and optimise information flows.
  2. Engage in “what if” analyses to study the effects of changes in practices, supply chains, legislation, and more.

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ESG Reporting Journey

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