All Sustainability articles – Page 5

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    Industry Trends

    The great race is on to decarbonised digital

    2022-04-11T12:30:00Z

    The call to action for the DPP’s Committed to Sustainability Programme came out of a 2018 industry leader’s conference as a top business priority. Identified as a ‘fairly simple assessment tool’, it was launched officially in 2019 and recently celebrated the milestone of 50 media companies joining the programme. George ...

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    News

    IBC Launches 2022 Awards Programme

    2022-04-06T10:40:00Z

    Nominations are now open for the IBC Innovation Awards, with entries for the IBC Social Impact Award opening on Monday 11 April. All parts of the industry are invited to suggest nominations for projects and programmes and all entries are free.

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    Video

    IBC Accelerators 2021: Sustainability in Live Production

    2022-03-25T09:11:00Z

    ”Climate change driven by carbon dioxide release is having negative effects the world over, with melting sea ice, regular extreme weather events and global warming harming the oceans and other delicate ecosystems. In 2021, the concentration of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere will reach 417 parts per million - 50% ...

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    News

    SMPTE opens call for papers for 2022 annual technical conference

    2022-03-14T10:41:00Z

    Technical paper proposals can now be submitted for SMPTE’s Media Technology Summit, formerly the Annual Technical Conference. SMPTE is also accepting proposals for participation in the Storytellers series.

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    Industry Trends

    Sustainability: how Albert is expanding its reach

    2022-02-18T12:22:00Z

    Over a decade on from when it founded the albert sustainability project (now run by Bafta) the BBC announced recently that all of its commissions and re-commissions are required to complete albert certification, just as the albert team diversifies beyond its first major extension into broadcast sports, with a move ...

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    News

    NEP to power OB fleet with biofuel

    2022-02-08T12:22:00Z

    NEP has switched its fleet of OB trucks to be powered by recycled biofuel as part of a step to reduce CO2 emissions and achieving carbon neutrality.

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    News

    BBC, BT Sport, Sky Sports, Premier League prove benefits of cloud for sustainable live productions

    2022-01-25T17:10:00Z

    A team of world-leading sports broadcasters, rights owners and technology vendors, collaborating as part of IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, have revealed the initial results from an English Premier League production workflow trial to support the goal of a carbon ‘net zero’ future for live productions. 

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    Industry Trends

    Pointing to the massive scope of sustainability

    2022-01-20T15:46:00Z

    Sustainability and transparency must go hand-in-hand: a DPP web event looking to demystify sustainability had its messages amplified and contextualised by sage inputs from a trio of carbon footprint professionals from Atos, Red Bee Media and Sky Sports.

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    News

    New TV and film studio RD Studios is to open in April 2022, based in Park Royal in West London

    2021-12-08T10:58:00Z

    The 45,000ft² of space will include five fully sound-proofed stages, alongside hair, makeup and wardrobe facilities, on-site catering, green rooms and lighting and camera hire.

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    Executive Interviews

    Setting the standard: Barbara Lange, SMPTE

    2021-12-07T11:11:00Z

    At the end of the year, SMPTE executive director Barbara Lange will conclude her 12-year stewardship of the industry’s premier standards body to follow the two new career strands of helping young women find careers in STEM and exploring sustainability in the sector.

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    Industry Trends

    IBC2021 Accelerators: Sustainability in live production

    2021-12-06T21:05:00Z

    The recent COP26 conference and the urgent need to limit global temperature rises to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels has placed renewed emphasis on this IBC Accelerator, which seeks to expand some of the excellent work done throughout the broadcast and media industry to provide useful metrics for achieving carbon net ...

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    Daily News

    BCE brings green energy to transmission sites

    2021-12-02T10:46:00Z

    BCE, in partnership with energy supplier Enovos and RTL Group, has opened Luxembourg’s largest ground-based photovoltaic power plant on two areas of land used for RTL’s transmitters.