The Green Room: When is Sustainable Aviation Fuel the answer to artist travel emissions?

Has someone already asked you about Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)? A promoter, sponsor, artist, fan, or even a colleague? Did you know how to answer?

Music connects people across the world, but artist travel remains one of the sector's most complex emissions challenges to solve.

Understanding the role of Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Both the Live Green Artist Rider and the Climate Transition Plan 2030 identify SAF as a potential tool for reducing the climate impact of flying.

Yet across the live music industry, there is still little consensus on what works, what is credible, and where SAF genuinely fits within a broader decarbonisation strategy.

Join the Industry discussion

onboard:earth, the live event industry’s travel-focused environmental charity, are convening the Green Room with industry experts including SAF experts from SkyNRG to share their knowledge and insights on the role of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in addressing emissions from artist and event air travel.

This is a small, candid session for people in the live music and event sector interested in SAF; particularly those who book, manage and move artists.

Join us to look at the role of SAF and gain clarity on how and when it can be deployed.

This is a space for honest discussion, shared learning, and industry-wide clarity on one of the most talked-about, and least understood, topics in sustainable event travel.

What we'll explore

• SAF vs. carbon offsetting: does SAF replace offsetting, complement it, or sit alongside it? How are evolving carbon accounting standards treating each approach?

• Cutting through the noise: what credible SAF looks like, and the miscommunications to avoid

• Who pays? Artists, bookers, festivals or promoters, and how that changes with residency models and exclusivity clauses

• The practicalities: how to calculate the costs for one flight, a tour or a stadium show of air travel

• Talking about carbon: best practice in communicating footprints and travel impacts

• Real-world case studies from the field

Confirmed speakers

• Ross Patel, (Chair) Live Green - Facilitating the conversation, unpacking assumptions and establishing the facts

• Bethan Riach (Strategic Communications Director) onboard:earth - Communicating carbon correctly

• Roosa Virkkunen (Brand Partnership Manager) & Jez Lowe, (Commercial Manager), SkyNRG - Understanding the SAF landscape
  

Who should attend this event

• Event sustainability professionals working with artists, DJs and festival groups 

• Touring artists and Djs

• Talent management

• Advancing and logistics teams & organisations

• Private jet booking agents

What you'll take away

• Clearer answers on reducing aviation related emissions

• Insight on how your peers are thinking about cost, responsibility and communication

• A short "what we heard" summary with anonymised insights, sent to everyone who attends

• A SAF quick reference guide with all the answers you need to talk to your people about it

Places are limited to keep the conversation small and candid- register your expression of interest today.

Registration deadline: 12th November
Invite confirmation: 17th November