Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Festival Republic, Academy Music Group, LN Media and Sponsorship, and Artist Nation Management.
As the world’s leader in live entertainment, Live Nation Entertainment have a responsibility to preserve the live music experience for generations to come and a tremendous opportunity to use our platform to inspire global environmental action.
We rely on the environment to create world class live events. We are stewards of the environment where our venues and live events are based, the setting plays an integral part in creating the unique atmosphere that forms lasting memories for fans.
We will work to reduce the environmental impact of our venues and festivals to ensure we are being responsible global citizens, taking care of the communities where we operate, and doing our part to curb the most harmful impacts of global climate change.
Festival Republic’s approach to environmental sustainability;
Festival Republic began the journey of addressing environmental sustainability in 2007 starting with Latitude, Reading and Leeds Festivals. This now includes Wireless, Download and Electric Picnic Festival and we also work with Creamfields, Isle of Wight and Camp Bestival.
- We partnered with Julie’s Bicycle and The Environmental Change Institute and the University of Oxford, to investigate the impacts of the music industry in 2007 publishing First Steps Mapping UK Music Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
- Responding to calls across Europe to make sustainability a priority Melvin Benn and Ruben Brouwer from the Netherlands put together a coalition of Live Nation companies to develop a sustainability charter. The charter, Green Nation, was adopted as global Live Nation May policy in 2019.
- We have employed a full-time sustainability coordinator since 2009. Live Nation now employs a Global Director of Sustainability, Head of Sustainability for Europe and the Middle East and Head of Sustainability for the UK and Ireland.
- Festival Republic have signed the Festival Vision 2025 Pledge to significantly reduce our climate impacts (annual Green House Gas emissions and other impacts) by 2025 (from 2015 levels). The Show Must Go On Report 2020 highlights the impacts of the UK Festival Industry and its efforts to reduce them. We were a key funder to this important report and it was developed with our involvement and are on the Steering Group of Vision 2025 and Powerful Thinking.
- Festival Republic has signed up to Music Declares Emergency. We acknowledge the impact that our business has on the environment and are committed to telling the truth on the scale of the climate emergency and taking urgent action.
- The Live Nation Green Nation charter sets out our target of reducing our carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and sets out eight focus areas of sustainability split up into three priority impact areas. The following pages set out what we have done so far on our sustainability journey and what we plan to do.