Carbon reporting for film and TV, done properly.

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.

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, the Albert submission is effectively complete.