Green production is no longer a fringe activity. As more sustainable approaches are fast becoming a "business as usual" way to work, the group aims to understand green production, how to implement it and deliver sustainable production transformation. By working together we can form strategies that not only are better for the environment, but are also economic.
2023
Case Studies of Sustainable Sets
Roundtable on Sustainable Sets- Members Pledge
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2023)
2022
2021
EU Funding for Green Production- Sustainable Transport in Broadcast
- Sustainability Summit (Q2 2021)
- Using Carbon Calculators for Productions Roundtable (Q2 2021)
- EBU Academy Sustainability Awareness Sessions:
2020
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 2023 is an online event for all things broadcast sustainability. The full day programme provides insights in areas such as production and technology, with a mix of presentations and discussions from EBU Members and industry specialists sharing relevant insights.
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.
