Our Goals
Reduce
Reduce our operational scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions 65% by 2030 from a 2016 base year.
Minimize single-use plastic and other wastes within our business.
Achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Read about our FY2022 Carbon Footprint and Global Waste Management Policy.
Engage
Engage our customers, employees, suppliers and partners on sustainability outcomes.
Align carbon reduction goals with a global temperature rise limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Continue to publicly report our Climate Change and Forests sustainability practices annually.
Read our CDP Climate Change and CDP Forests reports, plus engagement stories from our businesses below.
Source Responsibly
Source 100% of our paper from certified sources by 2025.
Reduce supply chain scope 3 carbon emissions 25% by 2030 from a 2021 base year.
Power our operations with clean energy wherever feasible.
Read our Global Paper Sourcing Policy.
Learn more about our Net Zero Transition Plan and Net Zero Roadmap.
For more information about our Sustainability initiatives, please read our 2022 Environmental, Social & Governance Report.
Please contact gei@newscorp.com with any questions or comments.
Global Environmental Initiative
The passion our green teams bring to their activities shines through in the initiatives highlighted below.
News Corp becomes the First North America Based Media Company to have its Net-Zero Science-based Target Validated by the Science Based Target initiative
News Corp’s commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 has been reviewed and validated against the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard, becoming the first North America based media company to do so. Our overall, near-term, and long-term targets are:
Overall Net-Zero Target
News Corp commits to reach net-zero GHG emissions across the value chain by FY2050.
Near-Term Targets
News Corp commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 65% by FY2030 from a FY2016 base year. News Corp also commits to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions 25% by FY2030 from a FY2021 base year.
Long-Term Targets
News Corp commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 95% by FY2050 from a FY2016 base year. News Corp also commits to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions 90% by FY2050 from a FY2021 base year.
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a global body enabling businesses to set ambitious emissions reductions targets in line with the latest climate science. It is focused on accelerating companies across the world to halve emissions before 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions before 2050. The initiative is a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and one of the We Mean Business Coalition commitments. For more information, please visit www.sciencebasedtargets.org
News Corp Leads Media Industry in Environmental Efforts
News Corp has been recognized as the #1 Company for the Environment in the media industry by JUST Capital.
Check out the details behind our placement here, and click here for JUST Capital’s full list.
News Corp Achieves A level Leadership in its 2022 CDP Supplier Engagement Score on Climate Change
News Corp is among the top 8% assessed by CDP for supplier engagement on climate change, based on our 2022 CDP disclosure. CDP’s annual Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) evaluates corporate supply chain engagement on climate issues. Organizations are evaluated on their supplier engagement through their responses to questions in key areas of the CDP climate change questionnaire related to governance, targets, ambition, management (Scope 3) and supplier engagement.
For more information, please visit CDP’s supply chain report which includes a listing of companies on CDP’s Supplier Engagement Leaderboard.
News Corp’s 2022 ESG Report Published
In October, we published our 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, a document that chronicles News Corp’s collective achievements from the past year in Sustainability, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Trusted News & Information and Philanthropy, among other important areas.
Commenting on the report, News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson stated, “To cite just some of the progress detailed in this report, in fiscal 2021, News Corp reduced its operational carbon footprint by 12% year-over-year, while growing profit 26%, proving yet again that we can do good and do well at the same time.”
Click the below link to read the report.
HarperCollins Achieves Global CarbonNeutral® Certification
HarperCollins has achieved CarbonNeutral® company certified status across its direct operational emissions (Scopes 1 and 2) plus some Scope 3 emissions. Their global teams implemented a variety of climate focused business changes and purchased 10,663 MT CO2e of third party certified offsets through Climate Impact Partners to achieve this significant milestone.
In FY21, HarperCollins’s global operational footprint (Scopes 1 and 2) comprised 7,986 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MT CO2e), representing a reduction of 34% from its FY16 base year and approximately 12% from FY20. Ninety-seven percent of the company’s waste was recycled in FY21, and HarperCollins reduced its energy/fuel spend by 3%.
News UK’s First Times Earth Business Summit
On October 20, The Times and Sunday Times held their first ever Times Earth Business Summit. The event brought together key business leaders, ESG specialists, climate change strategists, entrepreneurs, policymakers and environmentalists and equipped them with the latest developments in investment, science, innovation, finance, legislation and politics to inform decisive actions on the environment for clean and resilient growth.
Notable speakers included Aasmah Mir, Times Radio; Deborah Meaden, The Big Green Money Show; Mike Thompson, Climate Change Committee and Ben Spencer, Tom Whipple & Tony Gallagher from The Times.
News Corp Australia Continues Containers for Change
The Containers for Change program encourages employees to bring their plastic bottles and aluminum cans to work. Recycled items are then turned over to ReCollect, an organization that calculates the weight of the materials and their refund value, and makes an equivalent donation to a local charity. This year, News Corp Australia donated to the Courier Mail Children’s Fund, and began forming plans to roll the program out to other offices, starting in Sydney.
Dow Jones Launches Sustainability Data to Optimize Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
Dow Jones recently launched its sustainability data set to help the global financial community understand the performance and impact of a company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The initial offering is available for asset managers to make informed sustainable investment decisions and to better engage the growing audience of purpose-driven investors.
“We’ve seen a significant surge in sustainable investing as the next generation of investors wants their portfolios to have a positive impact on the world in addition to financial gains,” commented Joe Cappitelli, general manager of Dow Jones Newswires.
The new data set provides sustainability scores and sentiment on more than 6,000 publicly traded companies, with a scoring model that is aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards, covering five sustainability dimensions and 26 categories. Combining company-disclosed data with news from thousands of global sources, the methodology is uniquely news driven.
“We are seeing a wave of new policy and regulatory changes in the sustainable investment space that is driving demand for better data” said Glenn Hall, editor, Professional News at Dow Jones.
HarperCollins Beats Carbon Savings Target
In January, HarperCollins UK announced that it surpassed its target of saving 140 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022 by 23%. The business saved a total of 172 tonnes by transporting 3.2 million books from Europe to the UK by rail instead of trucks, totaling 41% of books produced for HarperCollins in Europe in 2022. This method was used to transport titles such as Feel Good Food by Joe Wicks, Menopausing by Davina McCall and new J.R.R. Tolkien works including The Fall of Númenor and The Silmarillion deluxe edition. The company is planning to increase its use of rail transportation to save over 200 tonnes of carbon in 2023.
HarperCollins is a signatory of the publishing industry’s declaration on climate action, Publishing Declares, and the reduction of emissions in the supply chain is part of the publisher’s ongoing environmental strategy. The company became independently certified as a CarbonNeutral© business in scopes 1 and 2 in January 2022 and is now working with EcoVadis—which provides business sustainability ratings—to help tackle its suppliers’ scope 3 emissions.
REA Commits to Solar
In FY21, REA Group’s carbon emissions footprint was 6,331 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) – that’s around 352 average Australian households.
To reduce REA’s environmental impact, the team has invested in the installation of solar panels at their Melbourne head office, which represents 70% of REA’s total energy consumption. Beyond that, electricity used in the offices make up 35% of total emissions across REA.
REA Group is anticipating a 30-40% decrease in its carbon footprint for electricity, thanks to the introduction of solar panels. They will also be upgrading to LED lighting throughout the Melbourne office, establishing a perfect pace to hit their Science Based aligned carbon emissions reduction targets of a 42% reduction in our operational (Scope 1 & 2) emissions by 2030.
