SASB Index
Supplement to Sustainability Reporting

2023

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SASB Index for Informa PLC
For the year ending 31 December 2023
Introduction
Becoming an ever more sustainable, positive impact business is an important part of Informa’s businessstrategy, and over the last decade, we have been progressively building capability and expertise around
ESG and sustainability and made good progress against our objectives.
In 2020, we launched FasterForward, a structured programme to accelerate the pace and scope of ouractivities over a five year period, including a series of commitments and targets. Under this programme,
we are reporting our activity and sharing information under the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
standards (SASB), to better assist investors and other stakeholders understand our work andperformance.
Following SASB’s guidance on relevant sectors and metrics, we have reported Informa’s activity under theMedia & Entertainment sector and used the categories that match what we believe is most material forour business today, signposting to where further information can be found. These metrics will be kept
under review and may be expanded or adapted as is relevant to how our business and our FasterForward
programme progresses.

Activity metrics for 2023
Activity metric(1) Total recipients of media
and the number of (2)households reached bybroadcast TV, (3)subscribers to cable
networks, and (4) circulation
for magazines andnewspapers

Measurement401m journals articles downloaded and
188,000 ebooks downloaded from T&F’s
platforms

Total number of media
productions andpublications produced

334 major events
2,604 journals published5.2m research articles hosted on T&F Online
185,935 book titles on backlist
8,050 new books published in 2023

SASB Code
SV-ME000.A

Over 3.5m live events visitors

SV-ME000.B

More information on the activities of each ofour divisions is provided in the Annual
Report (p. 40 – 53).

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Accounting Metrics
Accounting metricMedia Pluralism
Percentage of gender andracial/ethnic grouprepresentation for (1)management, (2)professionals, and (3) allother employees

Where to find the information

SASB Code

Women represent 60% of all colleagues,
56% of all managers and 39% of theleadership group.
36% of our Board are women.

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In 2021, we conducted a voluntary survey ofour UK and US colleagues (covering 40% ofour headcount) that captured racial/ethnic
group representation among other data
points.
Results from this survey are available on ourwebsite.
More information on gender and ethnic
diversity is available in our Sustainability
Report (p. 49) and Annual Report (p.33; 93and 110).

Description of policies andprocedures to ensuring
pluralism in news media
content

As explained in our Code of Conduct (p. 18),
connecting people with knowledge is at theheart of what Informa does, and we support
the belief that access to knowledge should
not be limited because of race, colour,gender, religion or any other characteristic
protected by law. We are committed to
improving the equality of access to theknowledge services we provide, and invest intechnological solutions that support this aim,
seeking to ensure, as a minimum, that wecomply with applicable accessibility
standards.
Journalistic Integrity & Sponsorship Identification
Total amount of monetary
Not reported
losses as a result of legalproceedings associatedwith libel or slander
Revenue from embedded£244.2m in revenue from all marketing andadvertising
advertising services and £221.1m in

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Description of approach forensuring journalistic
integrity of news
programming
related to: (1) truthfulness,accuracy, objectivity,fairness, and accountability,(2)
independence of content
and/or transparencyof potential bias, and (3)protection of privacy
and limitation of harmsponsorship revenue (see p.169 of theAnnual Report).
Informa aims to produce information, news, SV-MEinsight, data analysis and content-based
270a.3services of the highest quality, accuracy, andintegrity that our customers can trust andvalue.
Our Editorial Code ensures that Informa’s
editorial and content providers maintain thehighest professional and ethical standards.
Through our Responsible Advertising policy
we strive to ensure that all marketing
communications reflect our Guiding
Principles, are legal, truthful, and haveconsideration for their target audience.
We also know that our products and services
can influence our markets, and that they
have the potential to create a range ofdifferent environmental and social impacts.
More information is available in ourSustainability policy (p. 12 & 13)

Intellectual Property Protection & Media Piracy
Description of approach to
The Risk Committee regularly monitors theensuring intellectualGroup’s investment and approach in areas
property (IP) protectionthat are critical to performance, including
the protection of its intellectual property.
The way we manage the risk of any loss of
sensitive or valuable data, content or
intellectual property is described on page 64of the Annual Report.

SV-ME520a.1

Our Code of Conduct (p. 18 & 20) andResponsible advertising policy (p.2) also
address intellectual property.

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