Comprehensive GHG inventory supplements Banijay Entertainment’s climate journey

3Degrees help Banijay Entertainment reinforce its new sustainability strategy with comprehensive GHG Inventory and stakeholder alignment.

August 8, 2024 • By 3Degrees Staff

Banijay EntertaBackground Banijay Entertainment, international content powerhouse behind renowned TV shows like Big Brother, MasterChef, Peaky Blinders, Survivor, Black Mirror, and Mr. Bean, is the world’s largest international content producer and distributor with over 130 production companies across 23 territories worldwide. As a leading player in the global content industry, with a sizeable footprint and expansive production operations, Banijay Entertainment’s activities, like its competitors’, inevitably impact the environment. Recognising this impact, the company set its sights on centralising its sustainability efforts to implement a process through which it could measure its baseline emissions footprint. Banijay Entertainment sought climate expertise and partnered with 3Degrees to develop a comprehensive methodology for quantifying its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its operations and value chain, paving the way for more sustainable practices in the content industry and reduced carbon footprint. Challenges Complexity of emissions data With Banijay Entertainment’s operations spanning the globe and its scope 3 encompassing diverse categories of emissions, the data was not only vast but also intricate. Global stakeholder alignment Extensive coordination was required to achieve alignment and collaboration among stakeholders in order to obtain the necessary emissions data. How We Helped 3Degrees worked with Banijay Entertainment to develop a three-phase plan to construct its inventory of global GHG emissions, while closely collaborating with its stakeholders to streamline data collection. This included: Training sessions for Banijay Entertainment’s teams and key stakeholders to establish data collection best practices Calculation of Banijay Entertainment’s carbon emissions across scopes 1, 2, and 3 Aligning Banijay Entertainment’s timeline of GHG accounting with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements Determining Banijay Entertainment’s emission hotspots, enabling the prioritisation of future decarbonisation efforts Identifying areas for optimisation and improvement for consecutive inventoriesinment logoContent powerhouse Banijay Entertainment has partnered with 3Degrees to centralise its sustainability efforts. Underpinning the group’s newly devised sustainability strategy, the pair partnered to establish a baseline for its emissions footprint.

Setting and executing a three-phase plan to construct its inventory of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 3Degrees helped Banijay Entertainment:

  • Develop two comprehensive and global GHG inventories
  • Enhance understanding of, and commitment to, its sustainability strategy
  • Align stakeholders in collaborating on climate initiatives and CSRD requirements

All efforts spanned Banijay Entertainment’s 23 territories of 130+ production labels. The powerhouse plays home to a catalogue of 195k hours of content, comprising globally-renowned brands like MasterChef, Big Brother, Peaky Blinders, Survivor, Black Mirror and Deal or No Deal.

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Background

Banijay Entertainment, international content powerhouse behind renowned TV shows like Big Brother, MasterChef, Peaky Blinders, Survivor, Black Mirror, and Mr. Bean, is the world’s largest international content producer and distributor with over 130 production companies across 23 territories worldwide.

As a leading player in the global content industry, with a sizeable footprint and expansive production operations, Banijay Entertainment’s activities, like its competitors’, inevitably impact the environment. Recognising this impact, the company set its sights on centralising its sustainability efforts to implement a process through which it could measure its baseline emissions footprint.

Banijay Entertainment sought climate expertise and partnered with 3Degrees to develop a comprehensive methodology for quantifying its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its operations and value chain, paving the way for more sustainable practices in the content industry and reduced carbon footprint.

 

Challenges

Complexity of emissions data

With Banijay Entertainment’s operations spanning the globe and its scope 3 encompassing diverse categories of emissions, the data was not only vast but also intricate.

Global stakeholder alignment

Extensive coordination was required to achieve alignment and collaboration among stakeholders in order to obtain the necessary emissions data.

 

How We Helped

3Degrees worked with Banijay Entertainment to develop a three-phase plan to construct its inventory of global GHG emissions, while closely collaborating with its stakeholders to streamline data collection.

This included:

  • Training sessions for Banijay Entertainment’s teams and key stakeholders to establish data collection best practices
  • Calculation of Banijay Entertainment’s carbon emissions across scopes 1, 2, and 3
  • Aligning Banijay Entertainment’s timeline of GHG accounting with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements
  • Determining Banijay Entertainment’s emission hotspots, enabling the prioritisation of future decarbonisation efforts
  • Identifying areas for optimisation and improvement for consecutive inventories

Banijay Chart

Results

  • Two comprehensive, global GHG inventories: Encompassing an Inventory Management Plan tailored specifically to Banijay Entertainment’s needs.
  • Enhanced understanding of, and commitment to, its sustainability strategy: Increased awareness of, and application to, sustainability activities across the organisation.
  • Readiness to set targets to start global GHG emissions reductions, and CSRD compliance: Motivated stakeholders to collaborate on climate initiatives and CSRD requirements aimed at reducing their emissions footprint.

“Banijay Entertainment has long supported, and invested in, sustainability-driven initiatives and partnerships. However, the measurement of our group’s environmental impact was localised and not unified. In collaboration with 3Degrees, we have achieved a global measure of our carbon footprint across our 23 operating territories. With a clear indication of where we are, we can implement a robust decarbonisation strategy to reduce our impact and deliver responsibly against legislation.”

— Edouard Minc, ESG Director at Banijay Entertainment

 

Banijay Entertainment continues on its sustainability journey, partnering with 3Degrees on other initiatives.

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