Atresmedia was for the second consecutive year, the host venue to the ESG Spain 2021: Corporate Sustainability Forum, the benchmark business meeting on sustainability (environmental, social and good governance) in Spain, organized by Forética. It was hosted by the journalist Esther Vaquero, presenter of Antena 3 Noticias, and had more than 1,800 attendees. More than 20 speakers participated highlighing the importance of accelerating business action in terms of sustainability, allowing us to respond to the challenges of transformation and reconstruction post COVID-19, addressing key national and international trends from the ESG angle.

The meeting was attended by Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation; Rodrigo Buenaventura, president of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV); Antonio Garamendi, president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and José Luis Bonet, president of the Spanish Chamber.

The event also had the intervention of international opinion leaders, noted for their contribution to business sustainability, such as Michele Wucker, one of the most influential experts in risk management and identification, author of the Gray Rhinoceros theory. Internationally, one of the fundamental trends in sustainability this year is the Vision 2050 roadmap, launched globally by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), with the aim of guiding companies in development of actions that shape the systemic transformations necessary to achieve that more than 9,000 million people live with dignity, within planetary limits, which has been presented by Diane Holdorf, Managing Director of Food and Nature at WBCSD.

The forum had the vision and business experience of different leading companies in their sectors, including Atresmedia, whose strategic approach to the sustainability of the company was addressed by its CEO, Silvio González, who stated that “comply with the 2030 Agenda and the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals will allow us to grow and improve ”. “We live in complicated times, of great uncertainty, in which there are more unknowns than equations. An uncertainty that forces us to think more, to be more imaginative, in which the creation of value of companies is no longer strictly the shareholder as a reference element, but we have to think about many other things, from the interest groups closer to those broader objectives than a company thinks its role in society should be ”.

“At Atresmedia we have a greater commitment. Every day more than 22 million people see us or listen to us. We are an informative reference and we take it very seriously. We have a very important commitment to society. Our purpose is "we believe in the power of reflection and emotion", because we understand that society is made of free and critical citizens, with knowledge. We are very committed to everything that tries to transform the World. At Atresmedia, the whole world of sustainability and CR is a very important part of our daily life”, González pointed out.

For his part, Germán Granda, general director of Forética and secretary of the Spanish Business Council for Sustainable Development, stated that “we are facing a new post-Covid-19 recovery scenario, with profound transformations in all sectors and areas. Set a date to be zero emissions and zero waste; guarantee the protection of nature, the absence of discrimination and respect for human rights; and operating with the highest standards of corporate governance, among others, are emerging as key objectives in the corporate sustainability agenda.