Green thinking
As television drama goes green on-screen and behind the camera, four executives reveal how they are helping to create sustainable productions and reduce their carbon footprint. From series such as UK dramas After the Flood and The Rig to Norway’s Dome 16 and German series The Swarm (pictured above), viewers have been given a front-row seat to stories that imagine the effects of climate change – now and in the future. But how is the television industry itself doing in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and the impact of making television on the planet? “If you got your school report it would probably say, ‘Could try harder,’” said Lachlan MacKinnon, an executive producer at Bad Wolf. “There’s lots that we are doing and there’s a lot more that we could do. “If you’re thinking about transport, energy, materials and waste, then at the waste part we’re good with single-use plastic and so on. But you really want to be moving up that chain and tackling things like travel. That’s where the real savings in terms of CO2 lie; that’s the space we need to be moving into.” MacKinnon was speaking on a Content London panel about sustainable production, where the discussion focused on the lengths the industry has gone to to ensure a production’s carbon footprint is reduced as much as possible, and what it can still do. “‘We could do better’ is exactly how the school report would look at this moment because we all acknowledge we have … Continue reading Green thinking
