
Music Sustainability Summit
Save the Date — MSS 26 April 15, 2026
MSS 25 Panel Videos

Working Groups
2026 Groups — To Be Announced
Working Group Reports — Coming Fall 2025
► Reporting, Metrics & Standardization: A practical guide for music-industry professionals to understand, measure, and report environmental impacts—covering standards, methods, and implementation across tours and events.
► Renewable Energy & Power Solutions: A roadmap to accelerate clean-energy adoption at live events, with a comprehensive vendor-readiness framework that establishes deployment standards and reduces implementation risk for producers entering the clean-energy space.
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The Green Room
Stay Tuned — New Session this Fall
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2/3/25 - Climate scientists, activists, and music industry leaders convened for an urgent conversation to address the link between the LA wildfires and climate change, and explore what lies ahead. Over 10,000 viewers tuned in on Zoom and IG Live underscoring the music community's growing commitment to addressing pressing environmental issues.
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11/13/24 - A wave of national and local laws will reshape the music industry, targeting carbon emissions, air pollution, solid waste, and water use. Expect impacts across trucking and logistics, foodservice, venues, and fan travel, with new compliance timelines, reporting, and costs altering operations, procurement, and permitting in supply chains.
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10/15/24 - Can concerts and festivals truly be waste-free? The mountains of trash produced at concerts and festivals have long been a sore spot for the industry. Solutions are out there and becoming increasingly cost-competitive, creating new opportunities for artists, venues and promoters to reduce or eliminate waste while engaging and educating fans.
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9/5/24 - Artists have a unique power to speak directly to fans and influence their taste, style, and values. In today's polarized society advocacy can be a delicate balancing act. How are artists navigating this? Three expert communicators share their experiences in using the power of music and their platforms to move audiences.

Resources
Getting Started
A list of actions you can take now to make your tours and events more sustainable
Solutions Hub
An aggregation of tools, service providers, and vendors that support sustainability