04 July 2024
A committee fashioned of over 50 music consultants, together with artists Coldplay and Ellie Goulding, will examine how reside music will be made extra sustainable.
Massachusetts Institute of Know-how’s Environmental Options Initiative (MIT ESI), with the assist of Coldplay, Warner Music Group (WMG), Reside Nation, and Hope Options, has introduced the meeting of an advisory committee because it enters the following section of its Evaluation Report of Reside Music and Local weather Change within the US and the UK.
This newly chosen advisory committee shall be made up of over 50 members with assorted, specialised experience in reside music and the occasion {industry}, in addition to academia.
“As I’ve been saying for a few years, we urgently want data-driven motion on local weather and nature breakdown in each space,” mentioned Ellie Goulding, Artist & Advisory Committee member.
“That is the primary time a examine like this has taken place at this scale, together with all of the totally different components of the {industry} ecosystem, from artists and promoters to administration and labels and I’m actually happy to assist that degree of collaboration.”
Members of the committee have been chosen based mostly on their particular person areas of experience throughout core areas which embody, however are usually not restricted to, venue administration, tour administration and manufacturing, artist relations, and sustainability.
Their insights, information, and professional views will bolster the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of the general report, making certain that the proposed methods are related and sensible in implementation, thereby enhancing the potential to drive significant change throughout the reside music {industry}.
“With the participation of the advisory committee and contributions of knowledge from numerous sources, we’re properly on our approach to producing a major contribution to information that may assist significant actions to handle local weather change,” mentioned Prof. John E. Fernandez, Director, MIT Environmental Options Initiative.
Extra contributions will come from numerous organisations, NGOs, and charities that work inside the reside music ecosystem, together with REVERB, Assist+Feed, Julie’s Bicycle, World Citizen, and Shopper Earth.
The report, which was initially anticipated to be accomplished this month, has been prolonged to permit for extra complete information assortment and evaluation. It’s now anticipated to be launched within the autumn. The intention stays to:
• Develop a complete evaluation of the connection between reside music and local weather change
• Determine key areas the place the {industry} and live performance goers could make tangible enhancements to scale back emissions and drive planet-positive outcomes
• Present an in depth evaluation of the most recent developments in expertise and practices that {industry} gamers can faucet into
The report will search open contributions of knowledge from these with field-specific information that can in the end be used to counsel sector-specific and industry-wide decarbonisation options. To contribute information to this report, please e-mail p1lm@mit.edu.
The total checklist of advisory committee members and extra info will be discovered at climatemachine.mit.edu.
