Decarbonising the artist and audience mobility in music
After three years and half of experimentation, we are publishing the final white paper of the project, which shows that artist and audience mobility constitutes the main source of carbon footprint in the live music sector, and that co-programming regional tours (through local networks) can reduce this footprint while maintaining geographical diversity in programming, as confirmed by experiments carried out in nine European countries. The study complements these findings with a comparative analysis of public policies and sector perspectives in six countries (Finland, France, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain), revealing a persistent gap between stated climate ambitions and their concrete translation into operational measures, and concludes with eleven policy recommendations for sustainably integrating ecological transition into cultural policies.
