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YOUROPE publishes free guide on making festivals environmentally sustainable
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 6 July 2023
YOUROPE – the pan-European festivals association – has published a new guide providing guidance on how festival promoters can make their events more environmentally sustainable.
Called the ‘European Green Festival Roadmap 2030’, YUROPE says that the guide sets out measures which event organisers across Europe can implement in a bid to meet the European Union’s Green Deal requirement of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, when compared to 1990 levels.
The free guide has been produced in partnership with A Greener Future and Greener Events Norway, as well as YOUROPE’s own Green Operations Europe think tank.
Says YOUROPE General Secretary Holger Jan Schmidt: “Improving our festivals and increasing sustainability throughout the industry is an ongoing topic for YOUROPE and also for me personally. That’s why it’s a particular pleasure to present the ‘European Green Festival Roadmap'”.
Meanwhile Claire O’Neill from A Greener Future adds: “After nearly two decades working with festivals worldwide for sustainability, we’re really happy to harness and share learnings in this ‘European Green Festival Roadmap’ with YOUROPE”.
“The ‘Roadmap’”, she goes on, “helps prioritise and simplify the actions individual festivals need to take, and shines a light on areas for collective effort by the industry and beyond”.
You can access the ‘Roadmap’ here.
