Massive Attack castigate music industry over climate inaction: ‘We don’t need to talk. We need to act’

As the group prepare for Act 1.5, a Bristol festival aiming to have the lowest emissions of any big music event, Robert Del Naja says decarbonised touring is possible

As pop stars fly on private jets and haul stage sets around the world, with their fans collectively generating significant emissions via their own travel to gigs, Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja has said it's time to act" and address the environmental damage wreaked by live music.

A home town Bristol show on Sunday, titled Act 1.5 - a reference to the 2015 UN climate treaty that asked countries to keep global heating to under a 1.5C threshold - will be 100% powered by renewable energy, in what the band say is a world first" for an event of its scale. Thirty thousand fans will attend the one-day festival, which also features the US rapper Killer Mike, the Irish folk group Lankum and the actor Samantha Morton's solo music.