It has pledged to halve all emissions by 2030 and achieve Net Zero by 2050

Clear Cut net zero

Post-production house Clear Cut has committed to achieving Net Zero, having become a member of the SME Climate Hub.

This initiative commits to halving all emissions by 2030 as part of the UN’s Race to Zero campaign, and then reaching Net Zero by 2050.

The Clear Cut Group has received the SME Climate Hub badge, recognising its commitment to lowering its environmental impact.

Rowan Bray, managing director, said: “For too long the impact of post-production in the production lifecycle has been under-reported. We are making significant progress to operate in a greener and more sustainable way, reducing our emissions year on year. The Clear Cut team has been on a sustainability journey for some time and this public commitment ensures we continue reducing our carbon footprint, in keeping with client expectations, while supporting global climate action.”

Clear Cut Group, along with sustainability consultancy Cut the Carbon (CTC), won the Broadcast Tech Innovation Sustainability Award in December. This recognised the innovative and groundbreaking CTC Methodology which had been developed to accurately assess the carbon footprint of individual processes in post-production – something that had not been achieved before.

Further plans include the roll out of the methodology to other post-production environments, gathering comparable industry data which can be used by all those engaging with post-production.

Clear Cut has recently post-produced Alan and Amanda’s Greek Job (Voltage TV for BBC One); Lost Boys, Deadly Men (Pulse Films for Now TV); At War: Trump, Israel and Iran (BBC Panorama BBC One); Inside the Rage Machine (BBC World Service for BBC Two) and Tucci in Italy (BBC for Nat Geo and Disney+)