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A Greener Festival names greener festivals

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 16 January 2017

A Greener Festival has announced the winners of its awards for environmental sustainability in the music festival sector. This is the first time a winner list has been published since the awards were revamped at the beginning of last year.

“Events who have achieved the Greener Festival Award 2016 have shown an incredible dedication to walking the talk, minimising the environmental impact of their events and using them as a positive and much needed portal for change”, says AGF co-founder Claire O’Neill. “It has not at all been easy, with the most challenging assessments to face events in our ten year history. We salute all of you!”

The 25 events recognised for efforts to minimise environmental impact in 2016 are:

Outstanding
Boom Festival (Portugal)
We Love Green (France)

Highly Commended
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
DGTL Festival (Netherlands)
Glastonbury Festival (UK)
Green Music Fest (USA)
Heart Of Glass Heart Of Gold (France)
Øya Festival (Norway)
Welcome To The Future (Netherlands)

Commended
Bona Nit Barcelona (Spain)
Das Fest (Germany)
Extrema Outdoors (Netherlands)
Greenbelt Festival (UK)
Kew The Music (UK)
Liberation Festival (Netherlands)
Malmofestivalen (Sweden)
Northside Festival (Denmark)
Primavera Sound (Spain)
Wood Festival (UK)

Improvers
Arla Food Fest (Denmark)
Body & Soul (Eire)
LaSemo (Belgium)
Metal Days (Slovenia)
Nozstock (UK)
Paradise City (Belgium)

Further discussion of the work these events are doing, and what more can be done to further improve the sustainability of the festival sector, will be discussed at the Green Events & Innovations Conference on 7 Mar, within the ILMC programme.