AEG Presents Forms Climate Positive Touring Team

The team includes people across many different AEG Presents divisions and partners including Concerts West, Global Touring, International Touring, Marshall Arts, Messina Touring Group, and AEG Global Partnerships. It is co-headed by Amy Morrison and Nicole Neal, and its full membership includes Jon Baden, Amy Buck, Caroline Burruss, Kelly DiStefano, Kate Lewis, Mike Luba, Ben Martin, Alexandra McArthur, Kate McMahon, David Rappaport, and Connie Shao.

Climate Positive Touring will work in tandem with AEG 1Earth and AEG’s corporate sustainability program. The two major initiatives of the team are the Venue Environmental Survey, which will gather reliable data to allow venues, artists and promoters to identify and prioritize sustainability solutions and the CPT Green Touring Guide, which gathers insights that can help venues and artists reduce carbon emissions. The Guide will be released in editions, and the first is called “The Starting Seven,” which includes seven actions promoters can take to positively impact the environment.

“AEG Presents has the ability and structure to really make a global impact in moving our entire business – which has had a traditionally significant carbon footprint – toward a zero emissions future,” Jay Marciano, Chairman and CEO of AEG Presents and COO of AEG said in a statement.  “The company’s reach enables us to execute at every level of the live experience: from clubs and theatres to arenas, global tours, and festivals.  I’m looking forward to seeing how the Climate Positive Touring group begins to implement their plans as the business starts to reopen this year.”

Morrison added: “With light at the end of the tunnel, we feel it’s the right time to announce CPT and our short- and long-term strategies. We’ve been working on this since the earliest days of the shutdown. Now that live music is coming back, we can put our goals into action. As promoters, we will literally put our message on the road, modelling achievable sustainability, with the power of music in our sails.”

After merging its facility management business with SMG to form ASM Global in 2019, AEG is in a position to dramatically effect the global live event business’s move towards sustainability and the company has continually expressed its commitment in this matter. AEG itself pledged in 2019 that it would reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.