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Today the UK TV industry has announced a new measurement process to track climate content and provides a comprehensive update on climate content commissions from the past year.

Read more about the breakthrough in climate content tracking and what it means for the future of climate content in the press release here.

And, read the individual broadcaster updates here. 

BAFTA albert, the leading sustainability organisation for the screen industries, has announced that Ralph Lee has been appointed its first Chair. This newly created voluntary part time non-executive role is part of a new governance structure established following an organisational review completed in 2023.

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Today the BAFTA albert 2023 annual review was released, detailing progress made by the film and TV industries in improving environmental sustainability. The report also looks at BAFTA albert’s strategic progress over the same period and details priorities for the coming year.

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BAFTA albert has today released the second annual Studio Sustainability Standard report, detailing how 29 studios, from across the globe, are committing to sustainability and driving innovations to help build a net zero society.   

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BAFTA albert today outlined the key recommendations from the Screen New Deal (SND) Transformation Plan for Wales, seeing out a path to a sustainable future for the film and high-end
television industries alongside its second annual Production Summit, held today in Cardiff.

This landmark report covers the changes to transport, energy use, waste and culture needed to meet
net zero targets, distilling these actions into a clear timeline.

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BAFTA albert, the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability has today launched an in depth guide for those in the screen industry who want to reduce their impact on biodiversity in every area of production from planning to props.

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BAFTA albert, the film and TV consortium for sustainability, has today released its Studio Sustainability Standard Report, providing analysis on sustainability data from studios across the UK and USA.

Drawing from data submitted from 12 participating studios across 2021/22, the Studio Sustainability Standard Report provides analysis of the current collective impact and efforts reduce them of the studios – as well as a roadmap towards a resilient and sustainable entertainment industry.

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BAFTA albert, the leading organisation for environmental sustainability in the screen industries, and Sustainable Screens Australia (SSA), the Australia based, industry-led initiative addressing the growing need to reduce the screen industry’s environmental impact, have announced a first of its kind partnership. The albert Toolkit, comprising a carbon calculator created by and for the screen industries and albert’s Carbon Action Plan framework will be localized for the Australian market. Under a new albert admin license, the Australian screen sector will be able to establish its own sustainability standards or certification processes using the albert tools.

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The BFI today announces funding to two industry leaders to provide a range of resources to help industry tackle the climate and ecological crisis. and albert has been awarded £286,955 and Julie’s Bicycle have been awarded £299,800  of National Lottery funding over three years (2023-2026) through the new BFI National Lottery Sustainable Screen Fund to support all BFI National Lottery awardees in building environmental understanding and action on positive environmental change.

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albert, the TV and film industry organisation for environmental sustainability, has awarded 12 studios with the first year of the Studio Sustainability Standard badges in recognition of their commitment to sustainability.

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albert has today published an update from the largest media brands in the UK and Ireland on the progress of the Climate Content Pledge, one year after it was signed alongside COP26 in Glasgow.

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The announcement of Joe Lycett Vs the Oil Giant as the winner of this year’s inaugural Climate Impact Award at the Edinburgh TV Festival, marks another important milestone in the TV Industry’s commitment to do more and better climate storytelling to support society’s transition to a sustainable future.

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albert launches a tool for editorial teams, following on from the launch of the Climate Content Pledge at COP26. The tool is designed to support those working in editorial to consider how to authentically bring the climate into their programmes.

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albert publishes data from its carbon calculator and certification toolkit, revealing that in 2021 the average hour of TV contributed 5.7t CO2e per hour.

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A new scheme has launched today to help studios measure and reduce the environmental impact of their facilities. The global, voluntary scheme has been designed by albert, alongside global engineering and consulting firm Arup.

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Along with the BFI, BAFTA albert announce today that Wales has been selected to put environmental sustainability recommendations for screen production into action in Screen New Deal: Transformation Plan.

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In an industry first, 12 broadcasters and streamers have signed up to The Climate Content Pledge . The signatories – who represent over 70% of time UK audiences spend watching TV and film – are committing to using their content to help audiences understand what tackling climate change might mean for them, as well as inspire and inform sustainable choices.

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An inspiring programme of events for COP26 is planned by BBC, C4, ITV, SKY and STV with BAFTA’s albert, alongside sustainability partner Natural Capital Partners. These events will showcase the UK broadcasters’ radical collaboration in sustainability through albert both on and off screen, for the past decade, and will be available for live streaming to a wider audience.

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albert releases its third ‘Subtitles to Save the World’ report looking at how often climate change and our solutions to tackling it were mentioned on our TV screens in 2020.

Climate change mentions have decreased slightly since 2019 during a turbulent year which reflects the impact of lockdown on both the TV production industry and wider society.

Words associated with positive individual actions have increased but there are fewer associated with the systemic change needed to help us reach net zero.

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The Channel 4 News presenter will help guide the albert News Consortium as it looks for ways to collaborate and further reduce the environmental impact of news television.

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albert announces the formation of a news consortium, which will work alongside the BAFTA albert

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albert launches their revamped Carbon Calculator and production toolkit

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albert’s new Creative Offsets scheme (in partnership with Natural Capital Partners) will enable productions to offset their carbon impact, making their programmes carbon neutral.

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albert revisits subtitle data for a second year to look at how often climate change is mentioned in our TV Shows

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albert’s 2020 Annual Report reveal figures which show that the industry’s overall impact has reduced but that there is still much work to do to hit net zero carbon by 2050

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The renowned sports presenter will chair the newly formed Sports Consortium, helping to guide the sports broadcasting community as it tackles its environmental impact.

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In Partnership with the BFI and ARUP, albert launches the Screen New Deal report, which lays out a route map towards sustainable film production.

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albert launches its new initiative is designed to help actors, their agents and casting directors encourage positive, environmental changes on set.

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HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of BAFTA, joined commissioning editors from the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and ITV to discuss the challenges and opportunities in making climate change an integral part of the cultural conversation for all audiences from a daytime cookery show to a prime time drama.

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Producers, directors, script writers and creatives from across the film and television world were invited to an evening at 194 Piccadilly to learn more about the new resource, ‘Planet Placement’ which is challenging the film and television industry to put climate at the heart of on screen content.

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The new initiative will provide students, staff and graduates with the opportunity to learn about environmentally responsible working practices and their professional relevance, contributing to the transformation of the film and television industry.

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BAFTA announces that Shed Media, NBCUniversal International Television Production and UKTV will join the BAFTA Albert Consortium, the industry body for environmental sustainability within television production. The three companies join existing members ITV, Sky, BBC, Channel 4, Kudos, IMG, Twofour, Endemol and all3media.

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BAFTA announces a new partnership between the albert Consortium, responsible for the industry carbon calculator, and Greenstone, a leading provider of non-financial reporting solutions. The partnership will see the redevelopment of the albert carbon calculator, enabling better carbon reporting for television and film productions.

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The albert Consortium and Julie’s Bicycle team up to raise industry-wide support for sustainable production. This new collaboration aims to encourage and assist good practice across creative sector.

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Senior executives from organisations including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Microsoft, Sony and Warner Bros. attended “Greening the Screen: taking steps to a sustainable future”. Kevin Price, Chief Operating Officer at BAFTA, who gave an update on the progress of Albert – the UK’s first carbon calculator for the film and television industry – a year after launch.

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BAFTA is leading a consortium which has developed the ‘Albert’ carbon calculator for the TV production community. Born at the BBC, ‘Albert’ was originally created by former BBC journalist, Richard Smith, (now the BBC Sustainable Production Manager).

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BAFTA along with other leading UK broadcasters and independent production companies have signed up as pioneers of Albert – the BBC’s carbon calculator.

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