Sustainability
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Join the member-exclusive Sustainability Committee — a collaborative space to share strategies, case studies, and tools to cut carbon and communicate authentically about sustainable products and services.
Marketers play a unique role in shaping both culture and consumption and with that comes responsibility. Consumers, investors, and supply chains increasingly expect brands not only to reduce their environmental impact, but also to communicate authentically about the sustainable products and practices they bring to market.
We provide:
- Frameworks for embedding environmental sustainability into marketing strategies
- Case studies showing how brands reduce carbon impact across media, creative, and production
- Measurement tools to benchmark and cut emissions in campaigns
- Best practices for marketing sustainable products and services credibly
- Resources and insights to help marketers make the business case and demonstrate how growth and responsibility go hand in hand
Our goal: to help our members reduce impact, build trust, and drive growth through environmentally sustainable marketing.
Start Your Journey
Join the member-exclusive Sustainability Committee — a collaborative space to share strategies, case studies, and tools to cut carbon and communicate authentically about sustainable products and services.
Driving Sustainable Growth
Discover how innovative leaders and actionable insights are redefining the future of sustainable advertising.
Ad Net Zero
Helping Advertising Drive Growth That’s Better for Business and the Planet
Ad Net Zero is a not-for-profit, member-supported program to help advertisers and their supply chain--the advertising industry—to drive more sustainable growth and to accurately promote more sustainable products, services and behaviors. We all have a role to plan in ensuring that advertising is part of the solution, and not a part of the problem. Ad Net Zero’s work involves the emissions generated by creating and delivering ads, the businesses that create them, and the messages that advertising puts into the world.
Ad Net Zero creates voluntary, industry-level solutions and offers supporters and their employees an expert range of tools, resources and education, along with valuable peer communities. Ad Net Zero has chapters in the US, UK, Europe & Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Ad Net Zero's Five-point Action Plan, summarized here, provides advertisers, agencies and all marketing services companies with guidance that drives practical and tangible impact across the end-to-end advertising process.
Business Operations
Companies work to curtail carbon emissions across scopes 1-3 and set public science-based reduction targets.
Advertising Production
Advertisers, agencies and production companies work to measure, manage and reduce emissions from advertising production
Media Planning and Buying
Advertisers, agencies and media suppliers work to measure, manage and reduce emissions that come from media.
Awards and Events
Companies running events work to reduce advertising emissions from events, and award organizers build sustainability criteria into awards.
Advertising Messages
Consider how advertising’s abilities can support more sustainable behaviors through advertising’s messages and campaigns.
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UNLOCK SUSTAINABLE POTENTIAL
Join in on upcoming meetings of the Sustainability Committee to explore how marketers are embedding environmental and social responsibility into every stage of their work — from cutting carbon in media, creative, and production to building trust in how sustainable products and services are presented.