REPORTING Television for the Environment THE EARTH ‘TVE ARE COMMITTED AND PASSIONATE FILMMAKERS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH FOR US’ FLORA GREGORY, COMMISSIONING EDITOR, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH ‘TVE’S MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE WIDELY KNOWN IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF PRODUCING THE BETTER WORLD TOMORROW THAT WE ALL DESIRE’ BRUCE LLOYD, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY, AND TVE SUPPORTER ‘EDUCATIVE AND EYE OPENING’ A VIEWER IN GHANA TVE makes films that explore the critical To find out more about TVE, contact us on issues facing the planet. With our 45 partners, +44 (0)20 7901 8855. Or order TVE films we span the globe, making and distributing from our website at www.tve.org original, thought-provoking programmes and sparking debate on the environment TVE and development. 21 Elizabeth Street London SW1W 9RP In 2006 we produced, co-produced and United Kingdom commissioned nearly 100 films for broadcast Tel +44 (0)20 7901 8855 and non-broadcast, reaching more than [email protected] 280 million homes many weeks of the year. www.tve.org Our films were translated into or broadcast in Charity number 326585 23 languages and watched in more than 170 Company number 1811236 countries. Our viewers range from farmers TVE is a company limited by watching films on a video monitor, to business guarantee and registered in executives viewing global channels. England and Wales Cover image A polluted river in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Credit: Panos Pictures/Fredrik Naumann TELEVISION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT ANNUAL REVIEW With many thanks to our core donors and founding organisations. 20:06 CONTENTS REPORTING THE EARTH 20:06: 12.13 FINANCES CHALLENGES, SUCCESSES AND A 2 LEAN, EFFICIENT ORGANISATION. CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ANDY COATES DOES THE SUMS ON INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 20:06: 04.05 20:06: 08.09 20:06: 17 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT TVE’S GLOBAL REACH CONTACT US TVE CROSSES THE EARTH TO FIND HOW FAR DO OUR FILMS GO? TVE OFFICES AND THE STORIES THAT NEED TO BE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF WHO TO CONTACT TOLD, WRITES CHERYL CAMPBELL VIEWERS AND COUNTING. FROM VILLAGE SCREENINGS 2/‘UNEARTH JUSTICE’, TO INTERNATIONAL RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/CAFOD BROADCASTERS, WE SPAN THE GLOBE 20:06: 02.03 20:06: 14 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT FRIENDS OF TVE RICHARD CREASEY, CHAIR 1 HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES OF TVE, ON THE YEAR THAT HOSTS A FRIENDS’ RECEPTION CLIMATE CHANGE HIT THE AND GIVES AN EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL POLITICAL AGENDA INTERVIEW ON THE ENDANGERED ALBATROSS, RECALLS LADY GLENARTHUR 02.03 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 20:06: 06.07 20:06: 10.11 ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT NICK RANCE ON HOW EARTH GLOBAL TRADE, INEQUALITY 04.05 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT REPORT AND OTHER FILMS AND HIV. WE TACKLE THE BIG TRACK THE STATE OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, AS THE WORLD’S ENVIRONMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR JENNY 06.07 ENVIRONMENT RICHARDS EXPLAINS 1/ ‘COLD CORAL DEEP’, NORWEGIAN MARINE INSTITUTE 08.09 TVE’S GLOBAL REACH 10.11 DEVELOPMENT 20:06: 16 PARTNERS 12.13 FINANCES 45 TVE PARTNERS IN AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 14 FRIENDS OF TVE 15 TVE TRUSTEES 16 PARTNERS 17 CONTACT US TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 00.01 1/ ‘EDEN REBORN’ 7/ AERIAL VIEW OF A SETTLEMENT 2/ ‘EDEN REBORN’ IN SOUTHEAST ETHIOPIA CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 3/ ‘AFTER THE WAVE’ PANOS PICTURES/DIETER TELEMANS 4/ ‘BACK IN BUSINESS’ 5/ ‘TIMBER FUTURES’ 6/ ‘COLD CORAL DEEP’, NORWEGIAN MARINE INSTITUTE RICHARD CREASEY ON A YEAR WHEN THE WORLD FACED ITS METAPHORICAL ASTEROID 7 IN 2006 THE WORLD FINALLY WOKE Scientific predictions vary. Some models indicate a new UP TO THE REALITY OF CLIMATE ice age in western Europe. Some point to desertification CHANGE. TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO, in southern Europe. Most agree that worldwide we’ll have WHEN TVE BEGAN, SCIENTISTS AND more droughts, more storms and rising sea levels. But in highlighting the problem of climate change, let’s not set ENVIRONMENTALISTS WERE BATTLING ourselves up for a backlash – or ignore an even more TO GET THE WORLD TO TAKE NOTICE fundamental challenge to our survival. OF PREDICTIONS OF GLOBAL WARMING. NOW MANY CORPORATIONS, A GROWING Because what TVE has underlined for two decades is NUMBER OF GOVERNMENTS AND MILLIONS the importance of sustainable development. Environmentally OF PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT CLIMATE friendly development is not a bandwagon – it’s a long-term CHANGE IS HERE - AND THAT IT HAS TO solution to the threats we face. BE FACED. TVE’s films showed this year that it’s possible to develop We know now that we’re facing a metaphorical asteroid, sustainable solutions that are effective, economic and hurtling towards the earth. If we don’t nudge it aside, if we sometimes even profitable. It’s good business to save ignore it, it will hit us head on, with unthinkable consequences. money on packaging, to stop wasting paper, and to cut our carbon footprint. But as California governor Arnold The publication of Sir Nicholas Stern’s report on climate Schwarzenegger put it, environmentalists need to stop change in 2006, the release of former US vice-president making people feel guilty. It’s a lot more effective, as well Al Gore’s film, ’An Inconvenient Truth’, and declarations as more appealing, to make travel pollution-free than from the UK’s Tony Blair and other leaders have put climate to try to persuade people to stop travelling altogether. change firmly on the global public agenda. In our newspapers, on TV, in conversation, people are engaging in the debate In the coming year TVE will carry on investigating real, about what they can do. Use energy-efficient light bulbs. practical, sustainable ways forward in both the industrialised Drive less. Take fewer flights. Install solar panels. Find out world and the developing world, for multinational corporations how to minimise your carbon footprint. and for poor communities. We believe that the planet’s resources can be used intelligently and equitably. Companies So far, so good. As an environmental media charity, TVE and governments are waking up to the need to protect the is delighted people are finally getting the message. But as environment. TVE can help find the solutions. climate change makes the headlines day after day, are we, in our haste to expose one problem, risking overlooking the bigger picture? 123 456 TVE ANNUAL REVIEW 20:06: 02.0 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S 1 23 CHERYL CAMPBELL ON REPORTING REPORT FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 1/ ‘MELTDOWN’ , TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 2/ ‘MELTDOWN’ , TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 3/ ‘END OF THE WORLD’ , FIVE NEWS 4/ ‘DISASTER CLASS’ 5/ ‘MELTDOWN’, TANYA PETERSEN, WWF INTERNATIONAL 6/ ‘AFTER THE WAVE’ ’TVE ARE COMMITTED AND PASSIONATE seen by local viewers as well as international audiences. industry can change our world as we know it,’ she told support has enabled us to expand our network in Africa FILMMAKERS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE Thanks to TVE partners, our films reached millions of the audience. ‘It can prevent disease, encourage healthy with a new partner, Dreadlocks, in Angola. ENDS OF THE EARTH FOR US.’ A RINGING broadcast and non-broadcast viewers. In China, our partner lifestyles, and educate our people on real issues that will ENDORSEMENT FROM AL JAZEERA Earthview versioned 32 Earth Reports into Chinese. In have a meaningful impact on their lives.’ For TVE, 2006 ended with a strengthened financial base, addition to satellite broadcasts, 378 TVE films in Chinese the establishment of two significant regional posts, the ENGLISH’S RESPECTED COMMISSIONING were downloaded nearly 3,500 times from the Earthview REAL ISSUES, REAL IMPACT beginnings of a fourth partner network, and exciting new EDITOR, FLORA GREGORY. digital library. And in seven countries in Latin America and Since TVE was founded in 1984 it has been doing just that – broadcast contacts and commissions. the Caribbean, broadcasters continued to screen the making films about real issues and showing solutions with In 2006, we did indeed go to the ends of the earth. From microMacro series produced by TVE and its partners in impact. In 2007, with the help of our donors, we will It also ended with an award. In recognition of our eyewitness accounts of climate change in Fiji, Germany 2002. In Mexico, over 6,000 students and their teachers continue to do so. commitment to raising global awareness on environment and Nepal to rare footage of environmental recovery in discussed environmental issues after watching one or more and development issues through the use of media, the marshes of southern Iraq, we’ve travelled the globe of the 121 TVE programmes included in the Latin American Thanks to Christian Aid, InterfaceFLOR, Oxfam Novib we won the Gold Mercury Information and Media Award. and worked with local filmmakers to find stories highlighting and Caribbean Environmental Video Library. and the Swedish International Development Cooperation The award acknowledges an organisation’s dedication the changes in our planet affecting us all. Agency (SIDA), we have taken the exciting step of to honesty, impartiality and open communication of ‘TVE brings out the best in us,’ wrote TVE partner Elizabeth appointing TVE regional coordinators for both Africa and information. I would like to thank all those who contributed – Altogether we produced, co-produced or commissioned Roxas from the Philippines. In June, Elizabeth and other south Asia, in line with our international strategy agreed in our donors and broadcasters, partners, trustees, staff, nearly 100 films in 2006. Our films went out on 58 channels members of the 41-strong Broadcasting for Change 2004. And thanks again to Oxfam Novib, our office in Italy filmmakers and production teams – whose commitment in more than 170 countries and were versioned into network met in London to discuss their new series, has been able to take the first steps towards beginning a ensured that hundreds of millions of viewers had the or broadcast in 23 languages.