Sustainability: Shaping our sustainable future
Responsible innovation | Collaborative partnerships | Evidence-led research
We are pioneering safer gambling technology solutions to help our customers deliver game-changing player experiences and player protection. Our products and services deliver game-changing levels of safety, engagement and entertainment.
We believe betting and gaming has a vital role to play in the global entertainment sector. By championing sustainability and operating responsibly, we are striving to have a positive impact on our customers, colleagues, communities and planet.
Our sustainability governance structure
In June 2021, the Board established a Sustainability and Public Policy Committee. This Committee’s primary responsibility is to review, monitor and advise on Playtech’s sustainability, responsible business and public policy matters. For more information, please visit Our Committees page.
The day-to-day responsibility for sustainability governance sits within the Sustainability and Corporate Affairs function. In practice, this function co-ordinates action, provides subject matter expertise, delivers support to other relevant functions, business units and country management, manages and tracks performance, and leads engagement and partnerships with external stakeholders.
Our sustainability approach
We have refreshed our review of Playtech's social and environmental impact, and the issues that are most important to our stakeholders. This is the basis for our framework for action, which has four priority areas:
Pioneering safer gambling solutions
Promoting integrity and an inclusive culture
Powering action for positive environmental impact
Partnering on shared societal challenges
Our Sustainability progress
The most impactful contribution Playtech can make to the industry and in society is to advance safer gambling and player protection technology. Through our safer products, data analytics and player engagement solutions, we are keeping players safe and helping our licensees succeed in regulated and fast-moving markets. In 2023, Playtech continued to make progress in all areas relating to sustainability including safer gambling, diversity and climate change.
Powering licensees with safer gambling solutions:
16
Brands integrated with BetBuddy
Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions:
38.6%
Reduction since baseline year, 2018
Gender diversity at senior leadership level:
30:70
Female:Male ratio
2023 Group Sustainability Scorecard
Our Sustainability Data Methodology and Reporting document sets out the principles and methodology used by Playtech to collect, analyse and report the Company’s sustainability data as it relates to mandatory reporting in the Annual Report and Accounts (ARA). The document provides additional details on our methodology for non-financial reporting as well as the indicators we have reported on for 2023 and their relation to both the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability Accounting Board (SASB) standards.
2023 Sustainability Data Methodology and Reporting
In 2023, we engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (‘PwC’) to undertake a limited assurance engagement, reporting to Playtech plc only, using the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (‘ISAE’) 3000 (Revised): ‘Assurance Engagements Other Than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information’ and ISAE 3410: ‘Assurance Engagements on Greenhouse Gas Statements’ over Playtech’s 2023 GHG reporting (Scope 1 emissions, Scope 2 (location-based) emissions, Scope 2 (market-based), Scope 1 & 2 intensity per FTE employee and Scope 3, Categories 1, 2, 3, and 14). The assured data can be found in the Responsible Business and Sustainability Addendum to the Annual Report 2023. To access PwC’s assurance statement please read and accept the following disclaimer.