Our sustainability project with Massive Attack put to the test, Nature reports
10 Oct 2024
“We’re a critical friend, but in a jolly packet,” Professor Carly McLachlan explains their innovative collaboration and its promising impact in a profile in top science journal.
Science journal Nature has reported on how our environmental sustainability project with trip hop band, Massive Attack has been put to the test at a specially created summer festival.
The article is part of an occasional series in which Nature profiles scientists with unusual career histories or outside interests.
Commissioned by the band, researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, led by Professor Carly McLachlan, produced a roadmap that sets out emissions reduction goals that would make the live music sector compatible with targets in the Paris Agreement.
Live music events have various environmental impacts associated with energy demand, transportation of artists, crew, fans and equipment as well as food and drink consumed on site and the waste produced.
Despite taking steps to reduce their environmental impact while touring, the Bristol-formed group remained concerned with the carbon footprint of their schedules and wider issues in the music sector.
The band felt that any protest they made alone would not make a meaningful difference, so they decided to make a wider, more profound contribution to decarbonisation efforts.
Now those efforts have been put to the test by the band and 34,000 fans, at the Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator all-day event on 25 August.
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