Thur Established 1961 Lifestyle SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019 A pedestrian walks up a staircase of an overpass in Beijing. — AFP ritish band Coldplay on Friday won cert next Monday at London’s Natural History September, she travelled to a UN climate con- plaudits for shelving a new album tour Museum, with the proceeds donated to an ference in New York by boat. She is currently over environmental concerns, in the environmental charity. sailing back to Europe. In Britain, live music Blatest sign of climate change activism events account for 405,000 tons of green- in the music industry. The World Wildlife Fund Cleaning up their acts house emissions, according to the campaign (WWF) praised the move, as the group Coldplay’s decision is the latest example of group Global Citizen, which stages its own released its latest album-”Everyday Life”- bands and the wider entertainment industry zero-waste festivals. Powerful Thinking, a with only two gigs, both in the Jordanian capi- responding to growing concern about the cli- think-tank focused on the festival industry, tal Amman. The performances, staged at sun- mate crisis. US teenage sensation Billie Eilish estimates the events generate some 23,500 rise and sunset without an audience, were revealed last month that she had tried to make tons of waste each year in the country. broadcast free on YouTube. her world tour “as green as possible” with the This has led dozens of Britain’s biggest fes- “It is fantastic to see world famous artists help of a non-profit consultancy. The singer tivals to try to clean up their acts, initiating stepping up to protect the planet,” said the told chat-show host Jimmy Fallon she had everything from bans on single-use plastic to head of climate change at WWF, Gareth banned plastic straws and urged fans to bring using renewable energy sources. The UK Redmond-King. “We all have a responsibility their own refillable water bottles and to utilize Music umbrella group representing the indus- to lead by example in the face of this climate recycling bins at venues. try said 3.9 million people attended festivals in and nature crisis-inaction is not an option if On her next world tour starting in March, Britain in 2016. Glastonbury Festival, staged we are to preserve our planet for future gen- every site will feature an “eco-village” where every June on a farm in western England, is erations.” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin concert-goers can learn about environmental- partnering with charities such as Greenpeace, told the BBC they would not tour until they ism, she said. Meanwhile The 1975, another Oxfam and WaterAid to improve its sustain- had figured out how concerts could be more In this file photo (left to right) Musician Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin, and Guy British band, which this year collaborated with ability. Organizers even deployed portable “sustainable”. Berryman of the band Coldplay perform onstage at the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Swedish climate change icon Greta Thunberg, toilets that utilize technology to convert urine He listed the amount of flying required and Paul McCartney held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. — AFP photos are also trying to move towards carbon-neu- into electricity at this year’s festival. — AFP the use of items such as plastic water bottles tral touring. It pledged in September to plant as the band’s primary concerns over touring. stadiums to waste generated by concert- Martin said if the band do eventually hit a tree for every ticket sold ahead of their Activists say international music tours impact goers. Coldplay played 122 shows around the the road for the new release, they hope the upcoming tour of Britain and Ireland. heavily on the environment, with concern world across eight legs as part of the tour for tour could be entirely carbon neutral. The Teenage activist Thunberg refuses to fly about the amount of electricity used to power their last album, “A Head Full of Dreams”. band is set to perform another one-off con- because of the carbon emissions involved. In In this file photo Chris Martin of music group Coldplay performs onstage during the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada..