Environmental, Social & Governance

We firmly believe that technology and creativity can be used as forces for good and are powerful tools in transitioning towards a more sustainable society. This belief is the core of our sustainability vision, strategy and commitments.

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Our ESG pillars

We see Environmental, Social and Governance as three core, interconnected components of sustainable development and growth. Based on our own potential impact, stakeholders’ opinions and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), three strategic pillars are in place to boost our sustainability efforts.

  • 1. People Fulfilment

    ESG1

    We are committed to building a globally decentralised workforce that embraces diverse perspectives, skills, thoughts and experiences. We provide our people with the tools, training and support needed to foster a culture that allows us to adapt to the changing world.

  • 2. Our Responsibility to the World

    ESG2

    Our overarching sustainability goal is our commitment to SBTi-approved greenhouse gas (GHG) targets, with 2022 as the baseline year for market-based reporting. This year has marked significant success in relation to our ESG efforts. We achieved global B Corp Certification, underscoring our commitment to balancing profit with purpose and advancing our ESG initiatives. In addition, our Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) targets were accredited and approved, reinforcing our commitment to measurable emissions reductions.

  • 3. One Brand

    ESG3

    All of our initiatives contribute to a more integrated approach with ESG as part of our business model, unifying our operating model and strengthening our One Brand execution moving forward under a single P&L.

     

Our impact model

  • Input

    • Our People

      7,166 people
      48.6% women
      47.7% men
      3.7% undeclared

    • Our resources

      48 offices
      33 countries
      3,911.480 MWh electricity used

    • Our relationships

      Clients
      Technology partners
      Investors

  • Output

    • Offered 76 intern and associate positions
      Continued flagship S4 programmes
      Deployed Accelerate Monks management programme, over 800 applicants globally

    • 21.2% absolute emissions (market- based) reduction YoY
      2.8 tCO2e per employee
      42.1% of electricity is renewable

    • £848.2 million revenue £78,136 (0.01% of revenue) donated to charities and 3,184 voluntary hours

    • 6,872 projects,
      544 For Good projects,
      113 Purpose-driven clients

  • Long-term value

    • We empower our people to be a catalyst for change in an inclusive, diverse and creative workspace

    • We embed integrated sustainable processes to drive efficiency and long-term environmental responsibility across all facets of our business, ensuring progress towards net-zero operations

    • We remain economically viable and invest in our innovations to enable us to contribute to sustainability challenges in the long run

    • We help improve the ESG impact of our clients – to bring about the shift in attitudes and behaviour needed to reach the SDGs

Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • People Fulfilment

    • 5. Gender equality
      5. Gender equality
    • 10. Reduced inequalities
      10. Reduced inequalities
  • Our Responsibility to the World

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      9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
    • 12. Responsible consumption & production
      12. Responsible consumption and production
    • 13. Climate action
      13. Climate action

Our ESG news

  • How Three Brands are Making Sustainability Second Nature

    We’re shining a spotlight on some of the inspiring ways brands and organisations are stepping up to protect our planet. Their actions prove that environmental responsibility can take countless forms.
    2025_04_Earth Day
    Sustainability
  • Our 2024 Donations to Charity

    One thing that has come through from our people is their desire to bring things to life that represent the unique ethos of their respective cities and regions. In 2024, we made donations to organisations that are important to both our people and the planet.
    Donations
    Press releases
  • How Live Remote Production Keeps Sustainability Goals Grounded

    As the effects of the climate crisis become more apparent and time is running out to act, sustainability has become a key focus for brands and consumers alike
    Remote production-sustainable blog
    Sustainability
  • Generate Content at a Fast Clip with Fan-Focused AI Highlights

    Fan-Focused AI Highlights is the latest solution within our software-defined production offering, which effectively eliminates the need for a large physical plant—like large control rooms or OB trucks that cost tens of thousands to rent per day or the dozens of crew members to maintain them—in favor of versatile, nimble broadcast workstreams.
    Generate Content at a Fast Clip with Fan-Focused AI Highlights
    Artificial Intelligence
  • Expand your broadcast potential with software-defined production

    Virtualizing production to accelerate and innovate workflows, drastically reduce costs and decrease your global carbon footprint.
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    Technology
  • Respecting the planet by making our work more sustainable

    Monks Executive Producer Bernd Out, on ways production teams can take better care of the planet
    Glass encased office overlooking mountains
    Thinking
    Sustainable Work
  • NAB Show presents first Excellence In Sustainability awards

    Monks selected in the Sustainability in Leadership, Large Organization category for building a sustainable broadcast infrastructure
    people on a stage holding trophies
    Sustainability
  • How Adland is tackling the environmental impact of its media buy

    Monks experts weigh in on the challenges of and solutions for reducing the carbon usage of the media buy
    collage of digital media
    Sustainable Work
    Thinking
  • Amplifying sustainability: a pledge for the planet

    Labs.Monks share their ideas, processes and guidelines for greener digital production
    Robot hand and green hand shaking
    Thinking
    Sustainability

Our ESG work

  • The World Literacy Foundation: Addressing Illiteracy

    According to UNESCO, 771 million people are grappling with illiteracy. Through the utilisation of voice dictation technology, the Literacy Pen offers a portable, inclusive solution that encourages effective learning experiences through written and visual repetition — enabling individuals to embark on their literacy journey immediately.
    Literacy Pen-Monks-Google-pen
    Technology
  • Victimes & Citoyens: Drive like a woman

    Statistics tell the story: To stay alive, and to save lives, men need to drive like a woman. We helped convey this simple yet powerful message in an OOH campaign and on social platform X where we trained a chatbot to respond to every tweet about women's driving with indisputable arguments — sparking a societal discussion in France that reached five continents.
    Drive Like A Woman
    Sustainability
  • Dove: Keeping beauty real

    As part of the 20th anniversary of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, we joined forces with Dove to launch the Real Beauty Prompt Playbook: a public resource to help creators fight ingrained bias in AI's depiction of beauty. With 90% of content predicted to be AI-generated very soon, Dove saw the need to steer AI-image generation toward inclusivity and an awareness to #keepbeautyreal.
    Dove: Keeping beauty real
    Social
  • Sephora Italia:
mAI Colpevoli, Exposing Victim Blaming with ChatGPT

    Sephora entrusted us with a mission to combat the global issue of violence against women, aiming to challenge cultural biases and victim blaming. Our campaign ‘mAI Colpevoli,’ meaning ‘never guilty’, was launched on International Day for Eliminating Violence Against Women. 
By utilising artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool when constructing narratives from victims’ perspectives, we showcased the internalisation of societal victim blaming within AI.
    Exposing Victim Blaming
    Innovation
  • WhatsApp: Crossing Cultures

    Produced for WhatsApp, Crossing Cultures is a docuseries that showcases individuals whose cultural identities stretch beyond the borders of where they reside. The host, one of the first Black women to travel to every country, interviews our protagonists while delving into their passions, their cultural introspections, and how WhatsApp has empowered parts of their journey.
    Crossing Cultures
    Solutions
  • Pink Ribbon: 
The Bracelet That Keeps on Giving

    In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we launched the Pink Ribbon campaign 'The Bracelet that Keeps Embracing' featuring a moving video showcasing real patients, survivors and their loved ones, paired with the soulful song 'Winnaar van de tijd' by Dutch singer Zoë Livay.
    The Bracelet that Keeps Embracing
    Social

A responsible business from the start

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As the first in our industry to sign The Climate Pledge, we’ve committed to reaching Net Zero by 2040—10 years earlier than the Paris Agreement's Net Zero by 2050—to do our part in holding global warming below 1.5 degrees. 

We are growing S4Capital in a responsible and sustainable way, for the long-term benefit of all, aiming to make a meaningful difference and leave a light footprint. To that end, we’ve reaffirmed our commitment to SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard while advancing the quality of our data via a new software system for GHG emissions calculation. 

Our work embodies our ESG strategy and we identify the daily impact of - and in - our work to better ourselves, our methods and our outcomes. With AI now impacting almost every face of our business and our industry, our focus is to ensure that the technology can be used as a force for good and a tool for creating more sustainable processes and workflows.