‘Great Australian Road Trips’, a six-part series for SBS scheduled to air in mid-2025, has been certified by BAFTA albert, the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability.
Albert, through its Australian partner Sustainable Screens Australia, certified the production of the series with a Carbon Action Plan score of 70%. It received a two-star certificate (out of three stars).
Founded in 2011, albert – a BAFTA-owned and industry-backed organisation – supports the film and TV industry to reduce the environmental impacts of production.
It began as a carbon footprint calculator at the BBC before being donated to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in 2011. The calculator allows productions to calculate its predicted carbon footprint, challenging them to implement techniques to reduce carbon emissions where possible and offset them where it’s not possible.
All BBC, ITV, Netflix, UKTV and Sky productions in the UK are required to register their carbon footprint using the Albert carbon calculator. In 2023, more than 3000 productions registered their carbon footprints via Albert.
‘The Cook Up With Adam Liaw’ was the first SBS program to measure its carbon footprint through Sustainable Screens Australia in 2024.
SBS also announced in 2024 it had achieved net zero on its direct emissions (covering Scope 1 and 2) and that it was setting a target to reach net zero (across all three scopes) by 2045.
The albert-certified production logo – alongside the logo of Sustainable Screens Australia – appears on the end credits of the entire SBS series of Great Australian Road Trips.
Sustainable Screens Australia licensed the albert calculator for SBS’s use in Australia.
