ODESZA Had the Smallest Touring Carbon Footprint of All Electronic Artists In 2022: Study - EDM.com

Touring is a key ingredient to the international success of any artist. But how a lot of their fixed journey results in extreme carbon emissions?

A brand new research printed by Payless Power has revealed ODESZA as the artists with the smallest carbon footprint of any digital music act who toured in 2022.

The research’s methodology examined Billboard rankings to determine the hottest artists from six totally different genres—EDM, hip-hop/rap, pop, steel, nation and basic rock—earlier than analyzing their tour dates to estimate carbon emissions. To decide CO2 emissions from driving, the firm based mostly calculations on a tour bus that averages eight miles per gallon. Flight CO2 emissions had been based mostly on a airplane producing 53 kilos of CO2 per mile.

ODESZA acting at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles throughout 2022’s “The Last Goodbye” tour.

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When it got here to EDM excursions, the complete flight emissions averaged 1,655 metric tons of CO2 whereas driving emissions balanced out to a median of 83 metric tons. ODESZA, in the meantime, racked up a mere 242 from flight emissions and an astonishing 12 from driving.

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Moreover, ODESZA’s eco-pleasant amphitheater tour got here in fourth total amongst the 90 examined in the research. The esteemed digital music duo partnered with REVERB in an effort to make the tour carbon-impartial or carbon-adverse. Taking steps to restrict the tour’s waste, they prevented the use of over 50,000 single-use plastic bottles, in response to the environmental nonprofit’s affect report.

The ODESZA Action Village inspired the duo’s followers to take “meaningful action for people and the planet” every night time of their “The Last Goodbye” tour.

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So what does this imply for ODESZA? The duo strategically booked their tour stops to scale back its environmental affect, prioritizing proximity and effectivity whereas utilizing low-emission transportation.

According to the research, ODESZA joins Ed Sheeran, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd and Chris Brown as the high 5 globally touring artists in 2022 with the lowest carbon footprint. The different most eco-pleasant artists from the digital dance music area had been David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Calvin Harris and Kaskade.