ITV's Contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals March 2021 Our planet faces massive economic, social and environmental challenges. To combat these, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identify 17 global priorities, underlined by 169 targets, to be met by 2030. These goals provide a focus on how business, government and society can promote a more sustainable future for everyone. The SDGs have been agreed by all governments, yet their success relies heavily on action and collaboration by all actors (business, government, finance, society). The SDGs represent an opportunity for businesses to develop ideas and implement solutions to address the world’s most pressing challenges. In line with the UN Global Compact guidance, we have identified the goals that are particularly relevant to ITV, where expectations and risks are greatest in relation to our business, and where we can make the most significant contribution. We list these priorities in the tables below SDG Target ITV Target 2020 ITV Plan 2020 ITV Impact By 2030, reduce by one-third premature To encourage 10 million people to take Move more: we supported the Daily Mile In 2020 70,605 more children took up The mortality from non-communicable diseases action to improve their mental or physical initiative– using editorial and airtime to inspire Daily Mile as a result of the campaign. Since through prevention and treatment and health by 2023 primary schools to sign up, so that children ITV began supporting the Daily Mile in promote mental health and well-being. (2 million each year). aged 5- 11 years take part in 15 minutes of 2018,1.63 million more children are running or jogging 5 days a week. participating in the Daily Mile across 6282 We are running three high profile more schools. campaigns across the network to encourage the UK to eat better, move more and proactively look after their Eat Better: ITV developed the Eat Them To Defeat Econometric modelling of the campaign Them campaign with Veg Power to encourage kids to mental health. showed that 217 million additional portions of eat more vegetables. Children are not eating enough vegetables were sold as a result of the portions of vegetables and this is impacting their campaign. Poor diet and exercise are two of the leading health. The 2nd year of the campaign ran in February factors of non-communicable illnesses such 2020 with 6 brand new 10” ads. The advertising Research in schools revealed that 81% of as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. appeared in breaks during ITV primetime family school staff agreed the campaign was more effective than other healthy eating initiatives Suicide is the leading cause of death of shows. ITV supported the campaign through talent and editorial too. they had used. young men in the UK. ITV’s main social cause is focused on I6.4 million people started a conversation with improving the nation’s mental health. Britain friends or family as a result of the campaigns, Get Talking, ITV’s campaign for mental in 15 million phone calls and 27 million text wellness launched in Autumn 2019. Covid-19 messages. and national lockdown saw rates of depression in the UK doubling in 2020 and an Over £1.4million was generated for mental even greater need for people to look after health helplines. their mental health. ITV’s Britain Get Talking campaign continued in its 2nd year with over Britain Get Talking is the UK’s most recognised 140 messages from over 100 celebrities. ITV mental health campaign. also broadcast an appeal to raise funds to support mental health helplines. SDG Target ITV Target 2020 ITV Plan 2020 ITV Impact End all forms of discrimination against all women We have set targets for gender in our UK ITV encourages managers to look at the diversity of Data as of December 2020 showed that 52.9% of the and girls everywhere. workforce. These are set at 30% of roles at Plc their teams when hiring. Each board member ITV workforce are female and 49.3% of managers. At 45.3%, our SLT representation is ahead of most of the board to be held by women, 50% of Senior receives quarterly D&I reporting specific to their FTSE 100, but we are still working to reach 50%. Leadership Team, 50% of managers and 50% of team and monitors progress. Ensure women’s full and effective participation the total workforce by 2022. 74% of apprentices in 2020 were female. and equal opportunities for leadership at all In 2020, ITV was recognised as The Times top 50 levels of decision-making in political, economic On screen, we have set a target of 50% of roles In our Early Careers programme, we continued to employers for women. and public life. to be female. attract high numbers of female candidates to our Apprentice Programme. In the 2020 Hampton Alexander Review ITV ranked as Our apprentices are paid living wage in line with 10th in the FTSE 250 for gender diversity in the Adopt and strengthen sound policies and the Living Wage Foundation guidelines. combined Exec Committee and Direct Reports and enforceable legislation for the promotion of second amongst other media companies in the gender equality and the empowerment of all FTSE 350. women and girls at all levels. ITV’s median gender pay gap in 2020 was 9.8%. This is considerably lower than the UK median pay gap of 15.5%. ITV’s gender bonus gap was 37.6%. We are putting an increased focus on developing our future leaders, with our High Potential ITV’s women’s network has more than doubled in size in 2020; going from 421 members to 971. The network Leadership Programme. This is designed to is an essential source of support and connection that’s identify and accelerate the development of high been particularly valuable when working remotely potential managers for more senior leadership this year. positions. It aims to strengthen the diversity of our talent pipeline across the business. On screen in 2020, 53.8% of people in roles or presenting on ITV were female. A priority in production is to increase female writers ITV’s Production Principles state that all producers and directors. In 2020, Deep Water, Bancroft, Honour, are obliged to inform ITV if key roles, such as the Too Close and Flesh and Blood were all dramas led by director or writer are female. female writers. SDG Target ITV Target 2020 ITV Plan 2020 ITV Impact By 2030, increase substantially the share of We are committed to powering our global We are finalising a renewable energy audit and 46% of our sites globally are powered with renewable energy in the global energy mix. business with 100% renewable energy by 2025, action plan to switch all our permanent sites to renewable energy, up 6 percentage points and joining RE100 later this year. run on renewable energy. We are working with our since 2019. UK and international landlords, to identify where renewable energy contracts can be purchased, and Our data centre in Greenwich moved to 100% the best market initiatives to use. renewable in Oct 2020, and ITV Studios Germany now power all 3 of their sites with 100% renewable energy. SDG Target ITV Target 2020 ITV Plan 2020 ITV Impact By 2030, empower and promote the social, We have set new targets for the business focused To achieve our on-screen targets, we use ITV’s We’ve made significant improvements in the economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective on Gender, LGBT+, Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic Production Principles that details Diversity and representation of BAME and disabled minorities of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion (BAME) and Disability representation that reflect Inclusion expectations, both on and off screen, of and exceed our workforce targets in LGBT+. We or economic or other status. the diverse makeup of society in the UK. any programmes we commission. still have work to do particularly on disability on and off screen and senior representation of These targets cover our on-screen perceived ITV’s Production Principles state that all producers BAME in our workforce. For our latest Diversity representation, as well as representation within are expected to list how many of the following they and Inclusion data, both on and off screen, please our off-screen workforce. will commit to: see our 2020 Social Purpose Report. Ensure one of the lead characters is from an In July 2020 we appointed Ade Rawcliffe as ITV’s underrepresented group. Group Director of Diversity and Inclusion, a new role on the management board. ITV is the first Aim to cast actors from underrepresented groups, FTSE 100 company with a dedicated diversity irrespective of how a character is written. director on its executive board. State the elements of the main storyline that are about people from an underrepresented group. If the storyline is about people from underrepresented groups, state how it challenges the stereotypes. Ensure that the lead creative team (producer, writer, director) and senior production team has representation from underrepresented groups. Aim to ensure 20% of the crew at all levels are from underrepresented groups. SDG Target ITV Target 2020 ITV Plan 2020 ITV Impact By 2030, empower and promote the social, We have set new targets for the business focused ITV is a founding participant in CDN’s Diamond BAME: On screen, we commissioned Unsaid economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective on Gender, LGBT+, Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic initiative that records Diversity and Inclusion data of Stories, a series of short dramas in response to of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion (BAME) and Disability representation that reflect those on screen and working behind the scenes in the Black Lives Matter protest.