Albert release annual review

Albert has been helping the production industry to measure its impact for the past decade, since launching the first version of its carbon calculator back in 2011.

Using the collected data, albert reports annually on the industry’s carbon impact. This year’s report looks back on data from 2020.

To reach this figure, Albert asks productions to measure their impact in a number of areas including the production office, studios and stages, days in the edit, materials, disposal, travel and accommodation. Questions are asked on a range of different activities from number of flights taken to litres of paint used on set. Brought together, the data allows albert to work out the average impact of an hour’s worth of broadcast television across all genres.

The reduction in carbon emissions in 2020 is partly a result of the pandemic, as the data shows a steep reduction in travel, accommodation and freight transport emissions.

The emergence and increased reliance on remote production and travel restrictions meant that flight kilometres reduced 5.1 million km helping the impact of the average hour of tv production reduce by 2.4 tCO2e alone.  The majority of this reduction was seen in domestic flights which is really important as per km they are 7 times more polluting than rail travel.

“We are excited to be able to offer our toolkit to productions around the world. Using international carbon factors means that all productions, no matter where they are in the world can accurately build a picture of their environmental impact. I don’t believe there’s another tool out there for the production community like this” said Roser Canela Mas, Albert International Manager.