As an arts organisation with a mission to tell stories of global relevance, we embrace the responsibility to take action to reduce our carbon footprint. We recognise action is essential and this involves personal and institutional choices. We know this will require an institutional approach as well as a commitment to fostering a sustainable culture within our productions, projects and staff.

Good Chance is committed to sustainable development (meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) as a guiding principle within our work. Our aim is to reduce the impact on the environment from our operations, and to work with our partners, artists and friends to make globally inspiring art that puts the environment and healthy communities first.

We endeavour to reduce our environmental impact and will report on our actions and activity to improve our performance in this area.

We also recognise that as theatre makers and storytellers we have a vital role to play in helping audiences understand the crisis we are in and to use storytelling to encourage positive climate action. And with our new climate crisis play, Kyoto, has a potentially immense brain-print - i.e. the number of people we reach who can change behaviours or understanding as a result of engaging with our work.

We are optimistic for the future as we know that human knowledge and creativity can spark changes in human behaviour that can make a difference.

What we’ve done so far

Since Good Chance began in 2015, we have made steps towards reducing our carbon footprint following our Environmental Action Plan. We recognise our responsibility to protect the planet and whilst we have made changes to our practices and systems, we are not there yet.

However, we do want to share with everyone what we have done, so that there is continual learning as we all fight for a healthy and safe planet.

Some highlights have been:

• Naming a designated Sustainability Officer and outlining their role

• All members of staff attending Carbon Literacy training

• Encouraging staff to take public transport where possible and make a personal commitment towards the environment

• Offering staff ethical pensions (divesting from fossil fuels)

• Using recycled paper, ethical office supplies and buying second hand where possible

• Company-wide commitment to reduce, reuse, recycle

• Choosing sustainable and ethical suppliers for merchandise

• All freelance contracts now come with a sustainability rider relevant to their role

• Commissioning and producing Kyoto, a new play rooted in the first global climate conferences to bring conversations around the future of our planet from the closed-door conference floor to the world stage

• Attending the Theatre Green Book conference at the National Theatre

• Working with a sustainability consultant ahead of the Kyoto workshops and used a carbon footprint tracker for staff travel and food consumption for all those taking part

• Committing Kyoto to being made to Theatre Green Book Baseline standard
  

Our future goals

• Embedding the Theatre Green Book in all future productions

• Making work addressing the climate crisis and generating conversation around sustainability

• To continue and build on awareness and promotion of reducing, reusing and recycling

• Choosing suppliers with good environmental credentials

• Establishing a formal travel and transport policy that can be used by Good Chance core and project staff