Carbon Action Plan (CAP)

The Carbon Action Plan (CAP) is the structured commitment a production makes to measure and reduce its carbon footprint. Required by every major Sustainability — albert, AdGreen, Green Film certification programme (albert — administered in Ireland by Coimisiún na Meán — AdGreen, Green Film) as a gating evidence item.

Three-artefact lifecycle

Each artefact moves through a lifecycle of: not_started → drafted → submitted → accepted (with optional revisions_requested).

What the CAP covers

A typical CAP commits the production to:
- Specific transport choices (EV crew vehicles, public transport days)
- Energy choices on set (battery generators, mains tap-in over diesel)
- Waste reduction (paperless call sheets, reusable cups, recycling)
- Catering choices (veggie days, green caterer, local sourcing)
- Travel offsets where unavoidable
- Specific reduction targets vs baseline

Why it's commission-gating

For most UK broadcasters and increasingly Irish ones, an accepted CAP + final Albert sign-off is a hard delivery gate. See BBC — British Broadcasting Corporation for the 6-weeks-before-TX sign-off discipline; Sustainability — albert, AdGreen, Green Film for the broader programme context.

In Togra

/sustainability.php per project tracks the three CAP artefacts through their lifecycle. Producers see the CAP state on the dashboard; the Sustainability Lead sees aggregated CAP state across every production on their hub at /sustainability-hub.php. Carbon works the footprint out from the production's own records and locks interim, wrap and reconciliation reports that serve as the footprint report and reconciliation evidence: see Carbon — how Togra works out a footprint.