The greenest festivals of 2023 have been revealed in A Greener Future’s (AGF’s) sustainability awards this week (January 11).
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AGF – as per an outline on their web site – is a “not-for-profit firm serving to organisations, occasions, festivals and venues world wide to be extra sustainable and scale back environmental impacts.”
The origination based the world’s first inexperienced occasion and pageant certification. To obtain certification, AGF offers an “impartial audit and certification” to organisers of dwell occasions who can apply for certification through a self-assessment software process within the first occasion. The organisation goals to assist to “enhance useful resource effectivity, environmental affect” for occasions and to “in the end turn out to be extra sustainable.”
The festivals amongst these listed as essentially the most environmentally pleasant embody BST Hyde Park, Sziget and Primavera Sound who every acquired of A Greener Future’s (AGF) certification for sustainability in 2023.
Others awarded embody ‘We Love Inexperienced’, Increase, Boomtown Honest, Dockyard, Northside, OyaFestivalen and Tremor Competition. You’ll be able to learn the complete record of recipients right here.
Jim King, CEO of European Festivals, AEG Presents mentioned of their accreditation: “We’re dedicated to our inexperienced targets in any respect AEG Presents European Festivals. The very best occasions on this planet will also be essentially the most sustainable. To once more obtain the Greener Competition Certification at each BST Hyde Park and All Factors East is a testomony to the onerous work of the pageant groups to realising this ambition” (through IQ).
AGF CEO Claire O’Neill added: “The AGF Framework for sustainable occasions has turn out to be extraordinarily complete during the last 15 years. Hats off to all festivals and occasions which are attaining this certification, which is not any small feat.
“We not solely want to stop additional air pollution, waste, emissions and biodiversity loss, however we now additionally have to adapt to the adjustments already occurring round us, because of local weather change. These festivals and occasions are forward of the curve and provides many individuals hope, exhibiting how we will all do issues in a different way while having a tonne of enjoyable on the identical time.”
A ceremony to recognise the festivals awarded will happen on the Inexperienced Occasions & Improvements (GEI16) convention, in partnership with the ILMC, on February 27 in London.
In the meantime, final 12 months, Coldplay shared particulars of their game-changing environmental measures on their ‘Music Of The Spheres‘ world tour.
Again in 2019 the band – comprised of Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Man Berryman and Will Champion – introduced that they have been taking time to contemplate how they might tour sooner or later in an effort to make it as environmentally pleasant as potential.
In 2022, they pledged to chop emissions by 50 per cent in comparison with their earlier world tour between 2016-2017. A 12 months later, figures confirmed that the band have been in a position to emit 47 per cent much less carbon emissions on the tour. Talking of the achievement, Coldplay mentioned on the time “This can be a good begin – and one thing that our unbelievable crew must be very pleased with – however clearly there’s nonetheless room for enchancment.”
You’ll be able to learn the complete record of inexperienced measures the band carried out on tour right here.
