A stage can be powerful not only for the music it hosts, but also for the message it launches. And that of Elisa, from today, is even more so. The Italian singer -songwriter has conquered the Green Guardians 2025, the prestigious international recognition that the British magazine IQ Magazine assigns every year to artists, festivals and companies that have distinguished themselves for a concrete commitment in making the music industry live more sustainable.
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A prize that places Elisa next to names of the caliber of Coldplay and Massive Attack, celebrating a path made not of words, but of measurable actions. The recognition, in fact, comes at the height of a constant work that has seen the artist engaged on several fronts, from the historical collaboration with the United Nations for the promotion of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda up to the logistical choices of his last tours.
But what exactly Elisa did to deserve this title? The motivations of the prize highlights a 360 degree strategy to lighten the ecological imprint of its shows. During the tour, he chose to reduce the number of heavy vehicles in circulation and to rely on energy from renewable sources. To this is added an important compensation project: the planting of over 2,300 trees to balance the CO2 emissions generated by events.
The most emblematic example of this approach was the concert at the San Siro stadium, organized with the support of Music Innovation Hub. An event that marked a turning point for large live in Italy. “It will be the first concert in the story in San Siro where the diesel will not be used as a fuel for the machinery, but biofluel, or biocarbiating produced by organic raw materials, such as plants, algae or organic waste,” said the singer before going on stage, underlining his vision: “Not a revolution, but a beginning. A first step towards the sustainable transition of the music supply chain and large events”.
This choice is not an isolated gesture, but part of a wider philosophy that inextricably binds its art to the care of the planet. A concept that Elisa herself had clearly explained: “I thought of creating a fil rouge that binds the environment and music. In these non -easy times I wanted to turn on a light on the beauty of the world and on the unsuspected opportunities that we could have if only we accepted to look at it with different eyes”.
The prize received is therefore not only a trophy to be added to the bulletin board, but the confirmation that another way to great music is possible. A path in which the artist makes himself the spokesperson for a necessary change, transforming the stage into a laboratory of good practices.
While enjoying this well -deserved success, Elisa’s commitment does not stop. With the announcement of new dates in the buildings for the spring of 2026, which are added to the tour leaving in November 2025, its journey to increasingly “renewable” music is destined to continue, tracing a route that, hopefully, will be followed by many others.
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