Ninja Tune and Beggars Group have announced plans to become carbon negative.
As part of ongoing commitments toward sustainability, Ninja Tune, home to Big Dada and Technicolour, alongside 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL and Young s parent company Beggars, have shared plans on how they intend to become carbon negative over the next decade.
After hiring head of sustainability Will Hutton in March this year, Beggars is pledging to reduce its emissions by 46% by 2030. Speaking about the changes with Music Week, Hutton said: “To get to work on measuring and reducing our impact as quickly as possible, we took the decision to focus on UK-managed operations (about two-thirds of our business) at the outset of the project in September 2020. Over the summer of 2021, we will expand our data collection and analysis efforts to cover US-managed operations too, giving us a comprehensive oversight of the global business.
Ninja Tune have unveiled plans to become carbon negative.
The independent stalwarts have committed themselves to the new aim, moving from carbon neutral to enact carbon negativity measures.
It comes as the music industry looks again at sustainability efforts, with Music Declares Emergency’s Turn Up The Volume week launching today (April 18th).
Music Week hosts a special report on the label groups endeavours, with Beggars Group and Ninja Tune fulfilling their role as ounder members of IMPALA’s Sustainability Programme.
Beggars - 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL and the recently re-named Young - have drawn up a new operations strategy, hiring Will Hutton as their first head of sustainability.
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The program includes a 15-point climate charter.
IMPALA is launching a program to help make the European independent music industry more sustainable, the trade body announced today.
The sustainability program is based on a package compiled by a task force initiated and chaired by
Horst Weidenmüller, CEO at Europe-based label group !K7. The package includes a 15-point climate charter that sets a goal of a climate positive membership by 2030, with an interim net zero target for 2026. Though the targets are voluntary, IMPALA will provide access to guidance and training for members to assist them in reaching them.
The climate charter includes commitments to appoint a climate advocate for IMPALA s board and each committee; engage with suppliers to promote more sustainable practices; map and share best practices across Europe; and help IMPALA members apply for EU funding for climate projects, among other goals.