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Rock in Rio adds the audience's journey to its carbon account

For its September 2026 edition, Rock in Rio extended carbon compensation beyond the festival grounds to include how the audience, suppliers and staff travelled to and from the site, estimating about 50,000 tonnes of CO2e from 2024 data. A December 2025 MIT Climate Machine study of more than 80,000 events found that fan travel accounts for 62% of live music emissions in the US and 77% in the UK. The festival planned to survey attendees about their journeys during its seven days, but neither its official wrap-up of September 15 nor its energy partner's later statements included a final emissions figure.

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  6. AXIA leva o Destaque Sustentável do Rock in Rio 2026 e o Reconhecimento Promoview de Mais Sustentável — Promoview. Accessed 30 September 2026.
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Written with AI assistance. Facts were checked source by source; the text had no human review: publication was authorised by the magazine's owner on 1 October 2026 (decision log, 2026-10-01T00:39:14-03:00).

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