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As productions are making their decisions on where to go, there’s a baseline of knowledge and a baseline of capacity to support sustainability work as it’s being done throughout the world. There is a natural economic benefit to sustainability practices, as productions can now be more selective about where to shoot, As all regions and providers compete to draw productions, having the soft power of proven sustainability is a must, agreed the speakers. Advances in sustainable technology include an increase in battery-powered location equipment, explained Nigel Howard, director of UK-based On-Set Location Services. “Those measures are [becoming] ingrained on every location base,” he said, thus reducing CO2 emissions by about 40% on each shoot. Additionally, the use of wooden screws has allowed entire sets to be recycled, without the need to remove individual metal screws which also saves on time and therefore budget, said Steven Little, head of production at Screen Scotland. Sustainability has been at the core of the BFC’s development of UK studio footprint to over a million square feet in the past couple of years, said McCallum. “Before, you’d just build the studio. Now you have to have those measures already in place before building,” he explained. McCallum cited the emergence of the role of sustainability manager as evidence the conversation is shifting on a micro production-level. Likewise, Howard says 80% of his clients want to see their sustainability policies before engaging....