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.
In 2024, over 2,500 UK productions submitted Albert footprints. The data collected covers six categories: travel and transport, accommodation, energy and fuels, materials, disposal, and post-production. Most productions leave at least two of those categories blank.
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, the Albert submission is effectively complete.
Mapping
Eleven tools. Complete Albert coverage.
Factors
UK DEFRA, published and current.
All emission factors use UK DEFRA’s most recent published figures. HCMI (Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative) supplements accommodation, providing verified carbon intensity for named properties. Factors are updated each time DEFRA publishes new figures.
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.