How BAFTA Put Climate Storytelling On The Map At Global Summit COP28
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: While the headlines around the COP28 climate change conference focused on the protracted negotiations around the final agreement, Deadline can reveal how BAFTA and albert set up on the ground for the first time, putting film and TV in the spotlight and ensuring the industry is part of the conversation about the journey to net zero.
BAFTA and sustainability-focused sister org albert’s attendance in Dubai was spearheaded by Carys Taylor. She was recently instated the first ever Director of Climate Content and Sustainability, with a remit across both organizations to boost the industry’s capacity for climate storytelling.
In her first interview in the new role, she tells Deadline that the film and TV community need to be part of the climate conversation and not watching from the sidelines. “Our purpose was to represent the industry at COP, to demonstrate there is momentum and to explore where there might be gaps,” Taylor says. “There are emerging discussions around the need for support and public information and there was a meeting of culture ministers.
There is a growing need for the industry to weigh into these conversations.” At COP, politicians and industries of various stripes are represented in force, but for many on the ground, TV and film is seen as recreation and not part of the climate story. “We shared a lot of what is happening, and people were intrigued – they didn’t think our industry was this engaged,” says Taylor.
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