Environment

Alma Media is a predominantly digital media and service company – over 85% of the company’s revenue come from digital business.

The key climate change-related impacts for Alma Media are associated with energy consumption and availability, tightening regulation, and the achievement of emission reduction targets. In addition to company cars and office premises, energy is consumed particularly by the server capacity required by digital services. With technological development and the increasing utilization of artificial intelligence, the importance of energy efficiency is emphasized even further.

Alma Media’s climate targets are science-based and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. The targets cover the most significant emissions from both direct operations and the supply chain, and their implementation is tied to the development of the business model toward an increasingly digital and low-emission business.

As a digital company, we recognize the environmental impacts of technology infrastructure, digital services, and artificial intelligence. We develop our services in a resource-efficient manner by utilizing the energy efficiency of cloud services, optimizing the use of resources, and reducing unnecessary load. Environmental responsibility is part of our ethical principles for AI, and we take energy consumption and environmental impacts into account as part of the development and use of AI solutions.

Measuring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence is still an evolving area, and we strive to identify ways to understand, measure, and reduce the environmental impacts arising from the use of AI as part of responsible technology development.

In 2018, Alma Media was the third media company in the world to publish approved, science-based climate targets.

Emissions arising from Alma Media’s direct operations are generated especially by the heating, cooling, and electricity consumption of premises, the energy consumption of server rooms, and the use of company cars. To reduce emissions, we are improving the energy efficiency of our premises, migrating services to cloud services that utilize renewable energy, and systematically electrifying the company’s vehicle fleet.

Alma Media is committed to increasing the share of renewable energy in its own operations and throughout its value chain. We collaborate with service providers and partners to reduce environmental impacts, and we encourage our key suppliers to set their own emission reduction targets, for example, in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative.

Alma Media’s emission reduction targets are set until 2030.

Emissions from Alma Media’s own operations are mainly generated from the heating, cooling, and electricity consumption of office buildings, the energy consumption of data centres, the use of materials, and the use of company cars. To reduce these emissions, the company has initiated several mitigation measures to minimize the negative impact: monitoring and improving the energy efficiency of office buildings, reducing the use of data centres by gradually transitioning to cloud services that use renewable energy, and systematically electrifying the company’s vehicle fleet.

Alma is committed to increasing the share of renewable energy in both its own operations and the value chain. The company ensures that both its own and its partners’ services – including data centres and cloud services – are based on renewable energy whenever possible.

The company’s key suppliers are required to commit to Alma Media’s Supplier Code of Conduct and are encouraged to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, for example in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative. Alma Media engages in active dialogue with its key suppliers to manage environmental risks and support climate goals.