Creative Offsets

Our Creative offsets scheme is becoming part of the albert certification process. From January 2021, to achieve albert certification, UK productions will have to continue to reduce their impact (sending the albert team proof, as before) and they will then need to calculate and offset their remaining carbon emissions through our Creative Offsets scheme.

You can… but you won’t receive albert certification. albert strongly believes that we cannot simply offset our way out of the climate crisis. We must continue to reduce and only offset the remainder. It can be more cost effective to do it this way too – the more you reduce, the less the remaining carbon will cost to offset.

Our offset costs are set at £9/tonne plus VAT. How much it costs your production will depend on its size and how much you’re able to reduce. We’ve created our estimator tool to help you estimate how much it might cost you – this tool is just a guide and might be helpful for budgeting purposes. The final cost will be generated after your production footprint has been calculated and assessed.

We appreciate that budgets are tight and that this scheme might not be possible for everyone. Unfortunately, from January 2021 we will no longer be able to reward albert Certification to productions who don’t additionally offset.

The Creative Offsets scheme can generate additional marketing and communications value for your production because you will be able to clearly demonstrate your commitment to climate action and can talk about the incredible impacts of the portfolio of projects you support

You can. We set up the Creative Offsets scheme to make the offsetting process as simple as possible for busy productions but you’re entitled to offset outside of this scheme if you wish as long as you can provide the requisite footprint calculation, assessment and confirmation of offsetting to achieve the albert certification.

Objective: Finance highest quality natural climate solutions, supporting the protection and restoration of global forests.

Fundamental criteria:

• Project type: REDD+ via smallholder/indigenous communities, with move towards reforestation (removals)
• Project standards: ICROA approved, primarily VCS with CCB and SB VISta.

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