Massive Attack prove 98% emission reduction possible

[Read on Ethical Revolution]

In August last year Massive Attack staged a ‘proof of concept’ one-day festival in Bristol to show that low carbon festivals are doable. I was lucky enough to attend the event and I wrote an extensive report on it at the time.

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Research has now released the findings from analysing the festival’s emissions, showing that it produced an incredible 98% decrease in power emissions from comparable shows.

Vegan food, incentives to travel by rail and a fleet of electric vehicles reduced catering and haulage emissions by 89% and 70% respectively.

The report also showed that 5% of attendees opted to fly to the festival and in doing so they generated 64% of the event’s overall greenhouse gases.

[Via Ethical Revolution]

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Wake up fools! New Carbon Majors report just dropped. This is the analysis that tells us things like "just 36 companies were responsible for more than half of emissions in 2023."

This year's report includes new, updated methodology that allows for disaggregating individual companies within China.

One tiny bit of good-ish news: Europe as a region reduced its emissions by 4% since the previous report.

That's it. That's all the good news. Sorry. Still worth reading though. Feel free to reply with things that jumped out at you.

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateResearch #science

https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-2023-Update-31397