Liverpool To Host Entertainment Industry Professionals & Talent For Climate Action Summit As City Aims To Be “Cleanest, Greenest City In The World To Produce Film & TV”

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The United Nations has named Liverpool its first-ever ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action and it will play host to the worlds of film, TV and music as they come together to take action to combat climate change.

There will be a three-night music event and an industry summit. The UN named Liverpool its ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action as part of its entertainment and culture program.

The title was given to the city in recognition of it’s a commitment to test new ways to decarbonize the live music and film and TV production sectors.

Liverpool is a storied destination for live music. It is also a film and TV production hub with the likes of The Batman, Fantastic Beasts and Peaky Blinders shooting there in recent times. “We want to make Liverpool the cleanest, greenest city in the world to produce film and TV, and we want to openly share and export these experiments across Europe and the wider world, so that the incredible stories the film and TV industry create are produced without harming our planet,” said Lynn Saunders , Head of Liverpool Film Office, and MD, The Depot Studios.