Research shows that televisions and associated devices are responsible for about 1.4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, all the services used to gain audiences such as personalisation and use of AI, has a compounding effect. As public service media organisations, we have a responsibility to improve the environmental performance of the broadcasting industry to make it more sustainable.
2025
2024
Sustainability Rulebook: The Green Claims Directive- Joint EBU MIS
- Joint EBU L&P Meeting
- What About Sustainability and Scope 3?
- Cloud
Responsible Use of the Cloud- Metrics
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2024)
2023
- Roundtable: The Scope 3 Conundrum
- Joint EBU MIS
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- Sustainability Rulebook: The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- Sustainability Rulebook: The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2023)
2022
- Joint AIDI Workshop
- Cloud
- Environmental Sustainability at Public Service Media: Corporate Investments
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2022)
2021
- Sustainable Supply Chain and Procurement
- Sustainable Transport in Broadcast
- Joint EBU Academy Sustainability Awareness Sessions:
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2021)
2020
EBU Technology & Innovation Workplan
Every two years, the EBU develops a roadmap for technology and innovation activities based on the requirements and inputs given by EBU Members. The result of this roadmap is our bi-annual EBU Technology & Innovation Workplan. Strategic programmes and project groups are set up to focus on specific areas of interest. To access the latest Workplan, click here.
EBU Interdisciplinary Programme on Sustainability within PSM
- Helps Members to understand how to use sustainability measurement and metrics to deliver business transformation thus aiding informed decision making.
- Supports the use of case studies that take advantage of work done in other related industries, such as the ICT sector.
- Produces guidelines on best practices in sustainability and develop a common methodology for measuring the carbon footprint of production.
- Acts as a collective voice when liaising with other groups who seek to engage with the broadcasting industry on sustainability and environmental issues, such as the ITU and other stakeholders.
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If you are interested in Sustainability within PSM, join our group on this topic and participate in the discussions. Some restrictions may apply.
Giving old lenses a new lease of life
The production technology team at SVT has developed a means of bringing vintage equipment back into everyday use. Julia Kjaergaard explains how this cost-effective...
EBU takes sustainability message to Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit
The annual Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit took place in London last week, with speakers examining trends and technologies that are accelerating change...
Meet us at IBC 2023!
We are gearing up for a prominent presence at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam, with our stand at 10.D21, the 'IBC Tech Zone' collaboration, and a number of awards.
Carbon offsets should be a last resort, says ITU opinion
A recently published opinion from the International Telecommunications Union with EBU input urges the broadcasting industry to focus first on reducing...
Whatever the metaverse may be, it must be sustainable
The idea of the metaverse raises the question of how it will be enabled in reality and who will pay for the infrastructure, EBU Director of Technology...
A workshop on how to get AI to be as green as possible
The EBU AI and Data Initiative and the Sustainability for Public Service Media working group are co-organizing an EBU-Members-only workshop, held on Thursday...
PTS 2022: where did the journey take us?
It was the first truly hybrid event from the EBU, produced both for the 500+ people who registered to follow the event online and for the small number...
Cloud, game engines, and sustainability: PTS 2021 outgrows physical limits
More than 600 media technologists registered for the Production Technology Seminar 2021 (26-28 January) to talk shop, compare notes and take a fresh look...
Don't know where to begin with sustainability?
Sustainability management is no longer in the green shoots phase, and help and knowledge are available. Members organized in the EBU sustainability working...
Report: how EBU Members are taking a lead on climate actions
A new EBU report highlights the work being done by Europe's public broadcasters to reduce CO2 emissions arising from their content production and distribution...
The Sustainability Summit is an online event for all things broadcast sustainability. The full day programme provides insights in areas such as production and technology.
Through their choice of pension scheme, public service media organizations (PSM) can broaden the impact of their sustainability efforts.
This strategic report concerns sustainable waste management in broadcast production.
The adoption of cloud services by media organizations is growing enormously.
The aim of this document is to capture and share best practices amongst our Members.
This document captures best practices regarding sustainable supply-chain and procurement activities amongst our Members.
The two projects that jointly won this year's EBU Technology & Innovation Award are featured in this issue of tech-i magazine, along with the three runners-up. The award was created in 2016 to recognize, encourage and support outstanding technical solutions developed by EBU Member organizations.
Buildings and the facilities they house make up a large part of a media organization's ecological footprint. This report provides an overview of what can be done, and what media organizations have done, to reduce their impact.
Sustainability is a subject that has an overall understanding but generally not a thorough understanding.
Environmental sustainability is the “responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality".
Among the many impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, the acceleration of solutions for remote cloud-based production is one of the most striking for media. In issue 45 of tech-i magazine, Antonio Arcidiacono outlines some of the new opportunities (page 3), and there is more...
Issue 44 of tech-i was the first to be published after the COVID-19 pandemic had spread throughout the world. While the full impact of the crisis would take some time to be felt, strategy leaders at EBU Members had already started to reflect on how it might effect public service media in the medium term (pages 10–11).
Summary of the COVID-19 Roundtable on lessons learned during the crisis and their potential to help improve sustainability and reduce carbon footprints.
