Sustainability - F-10 Artistes

SUSTAINABILITY

plus 187.13 Tonnes CO2e Offset, 6 Tonnes CO2e Removed

Our Efforts

At F-10, we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and are actively working towards becoming a carbon neutral agency. We offset every artist’s transport emissions by investing in renewable projects and planting approximately 10 trees per booking.

We have adopted a hybrid working model that allows our staff to work from home when required and have digitised our paperwork, reducing the need for printing and paper waste.

In late 2022, staff member Mark Ashby undertook a research project as part of his Masters to quantify and analyse F-10 artist’s travel emissions around events.

Following this, we have created a plan in order to reduce our emissions.

Offsetting Carbon Emissions

While we are actively working towards reducing our carbon emissions, we understand that it may not be possible to eliminate all our emissions on our own. That’s why we have partnered with Ecologi, a reputable carbon offset provider to help us offset our remaining emissions.

We have analysed our bookings between October 2021 and October 2022 and have developed a efficient plan to reduce our net carbon footprint at this point in time.

In the live event sector, audience travel emissions are the most significant part of emissions associated with events. Whilst this is difficult to have any impact on, we can reduce the emissions of artist travel to ensure that our artists travel is carbon neutral.

Our Plan

For every booking, a scalable fee is charged to the promoter of the event, which the artist matches out of their fees. F-10 also matches this with an equivalent percentage from the commission. This fee changes depending on the travel methods required for that specific booking, costing more for high emission travel methods.

This is paid to Ecologi, where approximately 10 trees are planted per booking, and the rest goes towards renewable projects such as renewable energy or carbon avoidance projects.

Our analysis of artist travel between October 2021 and October 2022 shows this plan has the potential to offset considerably more emissions than are produced by artist travel.

The Future

To continue to be a carbon neutral agency, adjustments will inevitably need to be made in the future to ensure that we are maximising low carbon opportunities and making the most out of any new carbon avoidance technologies.

In the future, we plan to:

Limiting the use of domestic flights, aiming to phase them out completely by 2025 / use them only where absolutely necessary.
Aiming for runs of shows to maximise low carbon emission travel methods.
Reduce excess artist travel.
Conduct another yearly review to analyse the impact of implemented recommendations versus carbon emissions released and analyse any further improvements in lowering carbon emissions before carbon offsetting is used.