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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 its environmental impact.

Today, albert announces the launch of the albert news consortium, a group which has been set up to support the broadcast and production community specifically engaged in news television. 

• albert’s new Creative Offsets scheme will enable productions to offset their carbon impact, making their programmes carbon neutral.
• To launch the scheme, albert has selected to work with Natural Capital Partners, leading experts in carbon neutrality and climate finance.
• From 2021, offsetting will become a mandatory part of achieving albert Certification in the UK.
• Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean and A Perfect Planet are the first productions to be certified through the scheme as carbon neutral
• ITV is committing to make all its programming carbon neutral from 2021.

London, 8 January 2020: Today, 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 fro

The new report 'Subtitles to save the World' shows that words like 'cats' and 'picnics' both get more mentions on British television than the environment

'Planet Placement' launches, encouraging the television industry to weave more environmental messaging into content, no matter the genre

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 this new resource which is challenging the film and television industry to put climate at the heart of on screen content.

The 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

The Consortium – comprising the UK’s leading broadcasters and production companies – grows to 12. Projects include recently launched ‘albert+’ certification

Danny Cohen, BBC Director of TV, calls on industry to make albert+ the “expected standard for all productions” as BBC’s ‘Springwatch’ and Kudos produced drama ‘From There to Here’ become the first to carry the on-screen certification

The partnership will see the redevelopment of the Albert carbon calculator.