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Can live music go green?
The live music industry is booming. With global growth in concerts and festivals, more and more of us are enjoying our favourite bands and artists live. The music industry now relies on touring for money – encouraging more and more bands to travel and fans to see them. This is causing emissions to soar just like the private jets. So what can be done? Jordan Dunbar discovers the problem isn’t coming from who you might think and that this could be a climate opportunity rather than a problem.
Guests:
Ben Pol, Afrobeats star
Prof Carly McLachlan, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, University of Manchester
Jordi Herreruela, Director of the Cruilla Barcelona Festival
Luke Howells, Head of Sustainability for Coldplay and Glastonbury Festival
Henry Stuart, Co-Founder and CEO of Visualise
Producers: Osman Iqbal and Ben Cooper
Reporter in Barcelona: Esperanza Escribano
Researchers: Octavia Woodward and Isobel Gough
Series producer: Simon Watts
Editor: China Collins
Sound engineers: Tom Brignell
Production coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
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The live music industry is booming. With global growth in concerts and festivals, more and more of us are enjoying our favourite bands and artists live. The music industry now relies on touring for money – encouraging more and more bands to travel and fans to see them. This is causing emissions to soar just like the private jets. So what can be done? Jordan Dunbar discovers the problem isn’t coming from who you might think and that this could be a climate opportunity rather than a problem.
Guests:
Ben Pol, Afrobeats star
Prof Carly McLachlan, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, University of Manchester
Jordi Herreruela, Director of the Cruilla Barcelona Festival
Luke Howells, Head of Sustainability for Coldplay and Glastonbury Festival
Henry Stuart, Co-Founder and CEO of Visualise
Producers: Osman Iqbal and Ben Cooper
Reporter in Barcelona: Esperanza Escribano
Researchers: Octavia Woodward and Isobel Gough
Series producer: Simon Watts
Editor: China Collins
Sound engineers: Tom Brignell
Production coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill
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