Encore is the world’s most sustainable way to book musicians1
We’ve dramatically reduced the environmental impact of our performances
As the climate crisis intensifies, we’re taking responsibility for our carbon emissions. We offset every musician’s transport emissions, plant a tree with every booking, and offset the carbon footprint of our staff.
We’re offsetting the transport emissions of every Encore booking
Travelling to a venue (usually by car or van) is the biggest CO2 emission when booking an act to perform at a private event.
Growing a forest, one gig at a time
Tree-planting is one of the most cost-effective ways to draw down carbon and mitigate other climate risks like flooding and drought.
Supporting meaningful projects
Currently your bookings have helped plant wetlands in Morotaola off the coast of Madagascar and restoring the tropical rainforest of Changalane in Mozambique.
Proud to be a Climate Positive Workforce
As a company we have to take responsibility for our business operations. We now offset the full carbon footprint of our team and have taken action to reduce the impact our work has on the planet.
Industry-leading carbon standards
Both Encore’s carbon offsetting and tree planting initiatives are handled through Ecologi, a leading climate impact reduction service.
All carbon credits purchased must meet industry-leading carbon standards like the Gold Standard, and the Verified Carbon Standard. They publish monthly retirement certificates evidencing how many tonnes of CO2 have been prevented from going into the atmosphere through their funding.
Receipts of all trees purchases are also listed and third-parties regularly audit the tree planting projects they fund to ensure they are being carried out properly.
For more detailed information see Ecologi’s FAQs page here.
1. Compared to other leading music agencies we researched. If you've come across anyone who's doing more, let us know!
2. We ask musicians to specify their transport method: car (number of cars if a group), train, bus or walking. We've used the best figures we could find to estimate the kilograms of CO2 produced per kilometre per passenger: 0.17 for car, 0.0351 for train, 0.103 for bus. We then estimate the distance (km) the artist is travelling to and from the gig either using Google Maps API, or if we can only access the distance 'as the crow flies' we multiply the 'crows distance' by 1.5 to reach a best estimate (typically actual travel distance on roads in the UK is 1.25x distance 'as the crow flies', so we chose the much more conservative estimate of 1.5x just to be sure). We then multiply that by the kgs per km figure to reach an estimated figure for CO2 emitted by the travel.
Updates
April 2022
When we began carbon offsetting in November 2021, we estimated the carbon emissions of our musicians’ travel using unique data from each booking. We would then offset double the amount of carbon to ensure that we were always offsetting far more carbon than our musicians were emitting through travel.
Due to increases in the price of offsetting at the beginning of 2022, we further refined the accuracy of our emission calculations and moved from double to single offsetting in April 2022. We still apply a generous “margin for error” in our calculations (which you can read above), so we’re very confident that we’re offsetting more carbon than our musicians are emitting when they travel.
