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Julie's Bicycle | The carbon impacts of recorded music products in a time of transition

Julie's Bicycle | Report into the carbon impacts of music recording

Julie’s Bicycle is a not-for-profit company helping the music industry cut its greenhouse gas emissions and create a low carbon creative future. Though the music industry leads the arts in increasingly selling a virtualised product, downloading and streaming still have a considerable carbon impact. But what exactly are they?

This paper, downloadable below, summarises attempts to measure, understand and reduce those emissions and calls for further research.

Alison Tickell of Julie's Bicycle writes: "While this piece is focused on music it does have relevance for a much wider creative community. The creative industries are rapidly shifting to digital, and in that context we need to examine the impacts of the new business models and listening behaviours so that we can match the force of digital with the interests of a low carbon infrastructure."

Download The carbon impacts of recorded music products in a time of transition [PDF 194KB]