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Coldplay announces eco-friendly world tour

Coldplay announces eco-friendly world tour

By Semi Turaga
15/10/2021
Coldplay [image: James Marcus Haney]

Coldplay announces eco-friendly world tour

Coldplay's next tour will partly be powered by a dancefloor that generates electricity when fans jump up and down.

It's part of a 12-point plan to cut their carbon footprint, two years after the band pledged not to tour until they could do so in a more sustainable way.

Singer Chris Martin told the BBC in his first interview about the plans that fans will be on "kinetic flooring".

Coldplay will also plant a tree for every ticket sold.

On their last tour in 2016 ands 2017, they played to 5.4 million people.

That made it one of the biggest tours of all time, earning more than $US500m.

The singer said he accepted there would be backlash about some of their activities, such as continuing to fly on private jets.

The British group announced a world tour today starting in March in Costa Rica which has one of the highest rates of renewable energy generation in the world.

The concerts will use electricity from batteries fuelled by fan power as well as solar energy, recycled cooking oil from local restaurants and mains power from 100% renewable sources where available like in Costa Rica.

[Source: BBC]




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