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Welcome to the resources section. These resources have been carefully curated in collaboration with Cultural and Creative Industry leaders from the Audio-Visual, Cultural Heritage, Performing Arts and Visual Arts sectors in Ireland.

To help to take the first step to find what you need, if you haven’t already done so, you could take a read through the information and descriptions in the Cultural and Creative Industries sector relevant to you.

From this introduction, think about your day-to-day activities, and how each might impact on the environment – for example, do you use a lot of materials in your work, or lots of energy / electricity?

Head to ‘impact areas’ to find out more information on the topic(s) most relevant to your day-to-day activities. From there, you can decide if you want to learn more or if you want to start to take action!

To learn more, you can explore some of the below case studies, research & reports, or resource organisations – these resources have been collected and categorised to be relevant to your artform and your impact area.

Green Memo for The Young Offenders

Sustainable Tools in Cultural Heritage – Carbon Calculator

Gallery Climate Coalition

Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change

Making Impactful Music 2023 ESG Report

Green Mobility – A guide to environmentally sustainable mobility for performing arts

Culture Connects Conversation: Sustainability in The Performing Arts

A Screen New Deal: A Route Map to Sustainable Film Production

Julie’s Bicycle – Climate Literacy Webinar

Green Arts Initiative in Ireland – Guide to Energy

Music Industry Climate Pack

The Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals & Events

Sowing Seeds – How to make a Sustainable Short Film

The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

The Waking Walls – Alan James Burns

Creative Carbon Scotland Case Studies

The Galway International Film Festival

Greening the Audiovisual Sector: Towards a New Understanding through Innovation Practices in Wales and Beyond

Ninja Tune Record Label & Julie’s Bicycle

Music of the Spheres World Tour – Sustainability

Green Memo for The Young Offenders

This series, we are committed to being more green and reducing our carbon footprint. Please take a little time to read about our plans below and do share any of your own ideas with us.

 

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Motion On Larkin Green Memo

We are part of BAFTA’s Albert scheme which focuses on reducing the environmental impact of productions, and we all have a responsibility to make positive changes and establish a workable and realistic plan to help decrease our carbon footprint.

 

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland

This site sets out the framework for environmental reporting for the arts, screen and creative sector in Scotland. In being based on the most recent technical research and legislation, as the technical research and legislation develop, this framework will develop as well.

 

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Sustainable Tools in Cultural Heritage – Carbon Calculator

Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage (STiCH) is a life cycle assessment (LCA) Carbon Calculator and Library of Case Studies and Information Sheets developed to help cultural heritage professionals make educated, sustainable choices to lower the environmental impact of their work.

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Gallery Climate Coalition

Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) is an international community of arts organisations working to reduce our sector’s environmental impacts. GCC’s primary goal is to facilitate a reduction of the sector’s CO2e emissions by a minimum of 50% by 2030, as well as promoting zero waste.

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Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change

This report summarises the work of the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group of Member States’ experts on ‘Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change’. In their report, the OMC expert group formulates a set of key recommendations for policy makers, based on their findings.

 

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Making Impactful Music 2023 ESG Report

The report cites WMG joining with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group in 2023 to establish the Music Industry Climate Collective.

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Green Mobility – A guide to environmentally sustainable mobility for performing arts

The Green Mobility Guide offers practical recommendations for professionals across the performing arts, gives case studies and resources, and includes the Julie’s Bicycle ‘IG tool’ for tracking carbon emissions while on tour.

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Culture Connects Conversation: Sustainability in The Performing Arts

British Council Ireland, in partnership with University College Dublin (UCD) and Queens University Belfast (QUB) hosted this Culture Connects conversation with policymakers, practitioners and producers in the performing arts, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, in order to connect cultural professionals on this issue and provide a space for a frank discussion on concerns, hopes and actions in this space.

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A Screen New Deal: A Route Map to Sustainable Film Production

The film production industry requires systemic change to become sustainable. This report sets out a route map to achieve this goal. This report has been produced as a collaboration between albert, the BFI and Arup between November 2019 and July 2020.

 

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Julie’s Bicycle – Climate Literacy Webinar

As part of the BFI Sustainable Screen Programme funded by the National Lottery, Julie’s Bicycle delivered a Climate Literacy webinar for anyone working in the screen sector. It focused on those involved in activity ‘beyond production’ – from cinemas, festivals and screen archives, to education and skills development, sector support and promotion.

 

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Green Arts Initiative in Ireland – Guide to Energy

Understanding and recording your energy use is the first step to reducing energy consumption in your building. Knowing how to read your meters and how to understand your bills will help you to see how your activities affect your energy use.

This guide aims to help you to understand how much energy your organisation is using to light and heat your building and offices and which fuels produce the highest carbon emissions.

 

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Music Industry Climate Pack

Music Declares Emergency was created by music industry
professionals and artists in 2019 to place music at the heart
of the conversation and action in relation to the climate and
ecological emergency.

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The Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals & Events

The Guide To Plastic-Free Festivals and Events represents a pioneering effort in Ireland to revolutionise the way arts and cultural events are conducted. By providing comprehensive strategies to eliminate plastic usage, the guide aims to significantly reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability within these sectors.

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Sowing Seeds – How to make a Sustainable Short Film

Sowing Seeds is a documentary about an Irish pilot project in the sustainable filming of the short, The Last Harvest.

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Albert

Our toolkit comprises of a carbon calculator and Carbon Action Plan.

The calculator allows you to work out the carbon footprint of your production, enabling you to see the impact of your production.

 

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Design Declares

Design Declares is a growing group of designers, design studios, agencies and institutions who declaring a climate and ecological emergency. As part of the global declaration movement, they commit to harnessing the tools of their industry to reimagine, rebuild and heal our world.

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The Decarbonising Together project

Decarbonising Together invited five communities from the Limerick Metropolitan area to examine how meaningful climate action can become part of their day-to-day lives. The project focused on making and doing together to enable behaviour change towards Decarbonisation in Limerick.

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The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

The Centre for the Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) provides research, training, and consultancy services related to sustainable development, in particular ecological responsibility, in the arts and culture sector. They publish, electronically and in print, associated research in this field and organise conferences and convening on this topic for the purpose of professional and research networking, education, and professional development.

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The Waking Walls – Alan James Burns

The Waking Walls is an invitation to reframe environmental grief. The iconic national monument of Cloughoughter Castle, sitting on its tiny island in the heart of Cavan’s lake lands premieres a collaborative event-based artwork The Waking Walls by AlanJames Burns.

 

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Instant Dissidence

Rita Marcalo is the Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence, a dance company based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. For each Instant Dissidence project participants become ‘artivists’, enacting the power of connecting art and social consciousness.

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Creative Carbon Scotland Case Studies

A series of case studies made by Creative Carbon Scotland.

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European Eco-Policies Report

This report analyses national and European policies on Ecodesign for sustainable Creative and Cultural Industries has been produced as a reference document to guide the development of recommendations to foster transparency and recognition of Ecodesign for sustainable Creative and Cultural Industries.

 

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The Galway International Film Festival

A Case Study of the Sustainability Plan generated for the world reknowned Galway International Film Fleadh.

 

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Broadcasting Sector Sustainable Road Map

An initiative of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, this Roadmap document sets out a vision for a sustainable broadcasting sector in Ireland and offers a concrete plan for how to get there.

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Ad Net Zero Ireland

Ad Net Zero is the advertising industry’s drive to reduce the carbon impact of developing, producing and running advertising to real net zero. Ad Net Zero in Ireland is driven by all the key trade bodies and organisations in the Irish marketing and advertising community.

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Greening the Audiovisual Sector: Towards a New Understanding through Innovation Practices in Wales and Beyond

Despite efforts towards reducing the negative environmental impact of the audiovisual sector, sustainability remains challenging. In this paper we address environmental sustainability in the Welsh audiovisual sector through the lens of green innovation.

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Ninja Tune Record Label & Julie’s Bicycle

The Ninja Tune Record label has carried through this progressive vision to its operations, working to develop a sustainability strategy and broader advocacy work.

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Music of the Spheres World Tour – Sustainability

When we first announced the Music Of The Spheres Tour, we hoped to make it as environmentally beneficial as possible and reduce our direct carbon emissions (from show production, freight, band and crew travel) by 50%. We’d like to share how it’s been going; some things work and some things need improving.

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