Sustainability
Informa's Approach to Sustainability
IFRS® Foundation Conference is oranised by the Informa Group.
FasterForward is Informa's approach to sustainable business and it focuses on the long term impacts we have on customers,colleagues, the communities we work in and the environment.
Informa’s aim is to become an ever more sustainable, positive impact business. Through the FasterForward programme, we are embedding sustainability into everything we do and seizing opportunities from helping our customers and markets do the same.
Under the Faster to Zero pillar, we are moving faster to become a zero waste and net zero carbon business. To help meet the urgent challenges of a changing world, this means taking accelerated steps to reduce our carbon and waste footprint with the aim of becoming a zero waste and net zero carbon business by 2030.
When it comes to sustainability, we’re moving FasterForward.
Informa's Sustainability Highlights
- 83% reduction in scope 1 and 2 and 13% reduction in scope 3 GHG emissions between 2017 and 2024
- Informa have retained CarbonNeutral® Company certification
- 76/100 Score achieved in the Environmental dimension of the 2024 S&P Global Corporate Sustainability assessment
- Sourced renewable electricity usage for 96% of offices by consumption and 88% of events by attendees
- 431 events accredited in 2024 through our sustainable event Fundamentals framework, which includes reducing emissions
- 1.4% Before tax profits contributed to community groups
- £12.5m total value contribution to local community groups in 2024
- $6.8bn estimated economic impact on 50 of our host cities
Informa's Sustainability Ratings
Informa’s 2024 ESG Ranking
- MSCI: AAA (Leader)
- Sustainanalytics: 9.3 (Negligible Risk)
- ISS ESG: 90% (industry percentile)
- Dow Jones: 99% (industry percentile)
- CDP: A-
Hybrid and Sustainability
You can virtually participate in the IFRS Foundation Conference and access the same sessions as in-person attendees while helping:
- to reduce GHG emissions related to transport; and
- to minimise the number of hotel stays and associated sustainability costs.

