Welcome to the world’s first ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action.
Liverpool – under UN Climate Change’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) programme – has been recognised for its commitment to trial innovative new ways to rapidly decarbonise the live music and TV/Film production sectors.
Following years of work by ACT 1.5, an artist-led research and action effort, and climate scientists from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Liverpool is going to be the place where the experiments and ideas for how to create change will be tested first.
The world-leading programme is supported by Ecotricity alongside an incredible group of partners who want to explore new things, see what works and what doesn’t, challenge ideas and be challenged and stage some incredible live shows and brilliant TV and Film productions in the greenest and most sustainable ways possible.
In November 2024, a series of events in and around the city kick started the programme with three nights of live music from the 28 – 30 November. Under the umbrella of Act 1.5, Idles, Massive Attack and Nile Rogers & Chic each performed at M&S Bank Arena – with the gigs promising to be low carbon, showcasing the ‘gold standard’ of smart design in live music events.
Coinciding with this was Expedition One, a headline industry summit aimed at professionals working in British live music events and Film/TV production. Taking place on 29 – 30 November, Liverpool offered these two vital sectors a city-wide petri-dish, the partners, and the systemic support to test and pioneer decarbonisation and the urgent phase-out of fossil fuels, resulting in 9 experimental pilot projects for 2025.
And it doesn’t end there. We want to share what our plans are throughout 2025. We are officially an ‘Accelerator City’ so if you would like to find out more please sign up HERE to discover what’s happening in Liverpool first.
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