Standard
The benchmark for production carbon.
albert, run by BAFTA, is the recognised carbon calculator for UK film and TV. Broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix UK, and UKTV mandate albert certification as a condition of commissioning. Productions complete albert scorecards at wrap and receive certification badges that signal sustainability effort to commissioners, distributors, and investors.
albert footprints are now a routine part of UK production wrap workflows. The data collected covers six top-level albert categories: travel and transport, accommodation, energy and fuels, materials, disposal, and post-production. Most productions leave at least two of those categories blank because the data has never been captured at source.
The gap
Data collection is the bottleneck.
albert’s methodology is solid. The problem has always been getting clean data into it. Productions reconstruct from spreadsheets at wrap. Travel bookings are exported from TMCs. Hotels are estimated from per-diems. Generator fuel is omitted because no one logged it. Estimates replace actuals.
The Suite closes the data gap by capturing at source. Flight confirmations, hotel bookings, courier receipts, catering invoices, generator logs - captured as a byproduct of work that was already happening. By the time a production reaches wrap, much of the data an albert submission needs has already been captured.
Coverage
Wrap Zero tools mapped to albert categories.
Each Wrap Zero tool is mapped to its albert category. Tools tagged “Shipping to albert today” currently contribute data to the albert CSV; tools tagged “Coming soon” are mapped but not yet wired. The methodology document bundled with every export details the current coverage at the time of generation.
Factors
UK DEFRA, published and current.
Most emission factors come from published sources: UK DEFRA conversion factors, with HCMI (Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative) supplementing accommodation for named properties. Where a factor is still a Wrap Zero internal estimate, the methodology document says so plainly. Every counted figure is valued under a named edition of the source data; adopting a newer edition is a deliberate, audited decision, never a silent restatement.
Our CSVs include the factor source for every row - the specific DEFRA table, factor value, and version year. If albert’s methodology changes, we update the calculation layer and you export again.