{"id":11853,"date":"2021-04-03T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fetedelamusique.de\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2021-04-12T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:32:35","slug":"vison-greener-fete-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fetedelamusique.de\/en\/vison-greener-fete-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"A vision of a greener F\u00eate: a chance for a new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the world locked down, some people spoke of a chance for a new beginning.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We were all forced to stop, take a breath (a long one) and reconsider the world, and how we \u2013 individually and as a society \u2013 make our way in and  through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a year later, as the prospect of things opening up again rears its head; as we dare to hope that soon this will all be behind us; it seems that for many people, institutions and industries, that brief idea of embracing the possibility of starting afresh \u2013 of restarting better \u2013 has slipped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still there are many others of us who welcome this chance of facing problems \u2013 problems that were even before the pandemic becoming harder and harder to ignore – head on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the rush for a Covid vaccine, and other aspects of dealing with a worldwide pandemic, has pushed climate change to the side, now it\u2019s the ideal time for us to \u201cbuild back better\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fete team got together with a few other interested parties and hammered out their very own Green New Deal, with a list of strategic goals laid out and committed to<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When talking about climate change and pointing fingers at the industries that are the easiest scapegoats \u2013 cars, the increase of SUVs, oil generally, air transport and the rest \u2013 it\u2019s too easy for the live event industry, and the live music industry, to pretend that we don\u2019t also have a part to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201ctons of CO2 emitted by the entire UK music industry per year, live performance venues and festivals alone cause at least 400,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions, not to mention the amount of energy consumed. 175,000 of the 400,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions are derived from audience transportation to the shows.\u201d – <\/em>http:\/\/www.thembj.org\/2010\/11\/co2-emissions-in-the-music-industry\/<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course the FETEBerlin team, in preparing for the Fete 2021, knew that this was a great time to take its own strides in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n