Doherty tops Sting in report on 'greenest bands'
The Police rate less well than Pete Doherty in a new list of the world's greenest bands.
Despite frontman Sting's campaigns to save the rainforest and his environmental activism, The Police have been given a poor rating thanks to the carbon footprint left by his band's reunion tour.
NME music magazine commissioned carbonfootprint.com to come up with the rating for tours, from zero - "being as carbon neutral as Bob Geldof's bathwater", to 10 - "as good for the earth as an oil spill".
Radiohead's carbon footprint was the best of all five bands listed, giving them a rating of just two.
Frontman Thom Yorke recently pledged to reduce Radiohead's footprint after it was shown that 50,000 trees were needed to offset CO2 from the group's 'Hail To The Thief' tour.
Pete Doherty achieved a rating of four, the same as indie three-piece The Cribs, because the Babyshambles frontman tends to play in several small venues, meaning fans do not have to travel too far to see him.
The Police topped the league with a mark of seven, the same as Leicester-based Kasabian.
John Buckley, carbonfootprint.com managing director, said: "At the Live Earth concert in New Jersey where The Police played, the biggest contribution to carbon emissions wasn't from the concert itself, it was the fans.
"The Police played lots of big stadiums - they need to be careful over where they play, and make sure it's near public transport."
