At Sony Music Group, sustainability is an evolving, companywide priority focused on better understanding our environmental impact, strengthening how we operate, and contributing to meaningful progress across the music industry.
This Earth Day, we’re reflecting on how our environmental work continues to take shape from building stronger internal frameworks and measurement tools to collaborating with industry partners to help create a more aligned and effective approach to climate action.
Building a Stronger Foundation for Environmental Action
In 2024, we introduced our first companywide Environmental Framework, aligned with Sony Group Corporation’s Road to Zero global environmental plan. The Framework established a shared structure and language for environmental work across our global operations.
The Environmental Framework guides how we plan, operate, and report by embedding environmental considerations directly into core business processes. Through cross‑functional environmental task forces spanning Finance, Legal, Real Estate, Travel, Release Planning, Merchandise, Creative, and other departments teams collaborate on supply chain, sourcing, and carbon measurement as part of day‑to‑day operations. These task forces led the company’s carbon footprint data collection, bringing together regions and business units to consistently measure, track, and report environmental data. This milestone achieved 100% participation across global offices and established a shared foundation for planning emissions‑reduction efforts. As a result, teams are now better integrated across regions and business units, enabling more coordinated action, improved reporting, and closer alignment with Sony Group priorities.
Collaborating to Move the Music Industry Forward
Meaningful climate action in the music industry depends on collaboration particularly when it comes to measuring and reducing carbon emissions across complex, global supply chains. We continue to participate as a founding member of the Music Industry Climate Collective (MICC), a cross‑industry initiative working to improve alignment and transparency around environmental impact.
In 2025, MICC released new carbon measurement guidance specific to the recorded music industry. We are now applying this guidance as part of our ongoing efforts to calculate and understand our own carbon footprint and that of our supply chain.
Looking Ahead
We are committed to working collaboratively to advance environmental progress both within Sony Music Group and in the music industry as a whole.
Moving forward, we will continue to reflect on and refine the systems, partnerships, and practices that allow sustainability to be meaningfully embedded across our business and to contribute to collective progress that extends beyond any single company.
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