Travel
Travel and transport makes up at least 80% of an event’s carbon footprint. While emissions from energy generation have fallen, transport emissions have stubbornly refused to budge in the last 20 years.
TravelCase studies
Hosting a Spectacular, Sustainable Event: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
YST technology delivered tailored routes that dynamically combine low-carbon travel demand management rules for 20 host venues and specific events with people’s individual travel requirements
Big Green Coach provides Tottenham Hotspur supporters with sustainable travel for the fourth year
The UK’s leading carbon-neutral transport solutions company, Big Green Coach, has been retained by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club to provide a sustainable, supporter-focused transport
Big Green Coach offers bespoke Boardmasters carbon-neutral travel network for 11th year
Big Green Coach has worked closely with the organisers of Boardmasters for the last 11 years to continuously improve sustainable events travel and reduce
Event Production Show 2023 tackles waste and audience transport impacts
Event Production Show 2023 (EPS23) took place at the ExCel Centre, London last month 1-2 March: From the outset of show planning the EPS
Cube Modular’s New Service Supports Events to Reduce Travel Impacts
Cube Modular’s new service for event clients adds a summary of projected transport carbon emissions into quotes, plus a travel footprint report post-event, using
Meadow in the Mountains
Meadow in the Mountains aim to compost and recycle 100% of waste in 2022 In this case study the team at MITM share the
CONTINEST MODULAR BUILDINGS
Cube Modular’s unique and eco-friendly Continest modular buildings were recently used at Bovington Studios, near London, during the filming of a new comedy series.
TUNED IN TRAVEL
Tuned in Travel are innovative and environmentally-conscious events travel company offering safe, affordable and greener travel to festivals and music events across the UK.
ROCK CITY
Rock City Stage Crew tackle travel impacts and aim for carbon neutrality for 2020. In 2015, the team at Rock City set out to
LOVE SAVES THE DAY
Love Saves the Day (LSTD) encourage their audience to travel on foot, by bike or public transport onto their site near Bristol’s city centre.
TravelNews
Blog: Chris Johnson’s Festival Sustainability Round-up 2023: Highlights, Innovations, Research and Reports
In this end of year blog, Chris Johnson, Chair of Vision: 2025, delivers his annual round up of advances in event sustainability from across
Interview: Johnny Lance, co-director of the Showman’s Show shares their journey to improve event sustainability year-on-year
Vision: 2025’s Sustainable Event summit will return to The Showman’s Show in October 2023 for its eighth edition. The team at the Showman’s Show
Save the Date and sponsorship opportunities: Vision:2025 Sustainable Event Summit returns to the Showman’s Show
The 8th edition Sustainable Event Summit returns to The Showman’s Show, Weds 18th October 2023. Vision: 2025 brings the community of sustainable event organisers together
Green Leader Q&A #31: Philip Hellberg, Co-founder SNNTG Festival, Germany
Philip Hellberg is one the founders of the non-profit SNNTG; an association that voluntarily organise the annual SNNTG festival, and other events around Hanover,
Guest Blog: Team Love on the release of their first sustainability impact report
Pauline Bourdon, Social Cohesion and Sustainability Manager at Team Love, spent the last year gathering data across all of the Team Love festivals, and
Green Leader Q&A #30: Désirée Messmer, Staff & Volunteers Manager, OpenAir St.Gallen & SummerDays Festival
Désirée Messmer manages the staff and volunteers at OpenAir St. Gallen and SummerDays Festivals in Switzerland, which are part of Gadget abc Entertainment Group;
Vision: 2025 Green Industry survey results 2022
In this 8th year of the annual Industry Green Survey, 119 festivals and events with a combined audience of over 2.1 million took part,
Green Leader Q&A #26: Jed Dowling, Festival Director, at Dublin Pride
We spoke to Jed Dowling, Festival Director at Dublin Pride, to ask our 20 questions about his journey in event sustainability. Jed has been
Blog: Sustainability Is Teamwork at The Event Production Show
The team behind the Event Production Show are focusing on cutting the event’s environmental impacts for next years edition, at the ExCel Centre, London
Future Festival Tools: Green Competency for Event Professionals – Register to test the tools this November
The Future Festival Tools are a comprehensive toolkit for festivals which allow event professionals to assess where they are in their sustainability journey, be
Vision: 2025 and Future Festival Tools Presents – The Sustainable Event Summit at The Showman’s Show 2022
Vision 2025 and Future Festival Tools present the programme for the Sustainable Events Summit: with thought leaders, industry experts and policy makers, informing and
Guest Blog: Climate Change Specialist for the Music Industry at Julie’s Bicycle, introduces the Future Festival Tools
The Future Festival Tools will beta launch the Sustainable Events Summit, 19 Oct 2022, 12.50-13.30pm, with Richard Phillips, Climate Change and Music Specialist at
Driving for Carbon Reduction: Acoustech Director Sophia Livett trials electric
Sophia Livett, Acoustech Director, shares her experience of switching to an electric vehicle for the season. Working alongside sister-company, Symphotech, the initiative is one
Green Supplier Focus: Event Wine Solutions: great wines. no glass
Event Wine Solutions offers events sustainable wine packaging using bottles that are carbon-footprint friendly, 100% recycled rPET, easily recyclable and virtually unbreakable. Why recycled
Industry Green Survey 2021 – Results and Analysis
The annual Industry Green Survey of outdoor festivals, conducted by the Vision: 2025 network of outdoor events and businesses taking climate action for the
Green Leader Q&A #17: Ben Street, Founder and Director of Wild Paths Festival
Ben Street has a unique breadth of perspective when it comes to the live events and music industry – as well as founding and
Cube and ecolibrium unite to help tackle CO2 travel emissions for live events
Cube Modular, a Vision: 2025 Green Supplier member, has announced ecolibrium as its charity partner for 2022. ecolibrium will help the sustainability-pioneering portable building
Vision: 2025 Call for Sustainable Return for Events at The Showman’s Show
Vision:2025 welcomed a packed audience for its ‘Journey to Net Zero’ conference at The Showman’s Show, 20th October 2021. Arena sponsored the Vision: 2025
Guest Blog: Kevin Moore, Festival Director at Vision Nine, shares Boardmasters’ approach to sustainability
In 2021, Boardmasters used an onsite waste sorting and recycling plant to increase recycling rates by minimising contamination and maximising efficiency. The plant also
Guest Blog: Darcey Jackson, Event Coordinator at AEG Presents shares the highlights of All Points East’s sustainability initiatives
Darcey Jackson is Event Coordinator at AEG Presents – working on All Points East (APE), In the Neighbourhood and British Summer Time Hyde Park
Vision: 2025 launches new world-leading green knowledge hub for the outdoor live events industry
We are delighted to launch a new knowledge hub to help our growing network of over 500 outdoor events and businesses take climate action.
VISION: 2025 SESSION AT THE AFO CONFERENCE – CATCH UP VIDEO
In February Vision: 2025 was invited to host a session at the AFO conference, the ‘Counting What Matters and Making it Count‘ session bought
Guest Blog: Eilidh McLaughlin, Co-founder of Clean Scene and Founder of Creative Sustainability
Eilidh McLaughlin is co-founder of Clean Scene, a climate action collective exploring alternative futures for the dance music community, and is founder of Creative-Sustainability
News: Clean scene report on the impact of 1000 touring DJs in 2019
Clean Scene report on RA Top 1000 DJs shows touring DJs took 51,000 flights in 2019 – equivalent to 20,000 households’ consuming electricity for
Guest Blog: Pauline Bourdon, On Breaking Bread’s Social, Economic and Environmental Impact Report
In this guest blog Pauline Bourdon, Sustainability and Social Cohesion Coordinator at Team Love, shares her experience of working on Breaking Bread, a pop-up, socially distanced, drinking & dining experience in Bristol – and of researching and producing a report detailing the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of the event.
Guest Blog: Charlie Kingsley – Behind the Scenes with the Green Supplier Directory
Vision: 2025 team member Charlie Kingsley, has worked with us to begin building the Green Supplier Directory. Here he shares his views on why greening the supply chain is such a vital step in helping the Live Events Industry hit their environmental targets.
Guest Blog: Em Weirdigan, Green Gathering Director, on planning a festival amidst a pandemic and the climate crisis
In this guest blog Em Weirdigan, Director of Green Gathering, shares their journey to deciding to run the 2021 edition and navigating the restrictions imposed by the global pandemic.
Vision: 2025 at The Association of Festival Organisers’ 34th Conference
The Vision: 2025 team are delighted to be hosting a session at the Association of Festival Organisers’ (AFO) 34th conference on Saturday 20th Feb, on the how and why of measuring the environmental impacts of events.
Climate Live, launched by youth in 40 countries, reach out to industry for support.
Fridays For Future youth-led climate groups have launched global climate concerts in over 40 countries scheduled for April and October 2021
Guest Blog with ecolibrium: Drive-ins vs. Travel Emissions
How can the live events industry innovate and maintain the momentum of environmental progress? Abi Moores, Project Manager at ecolibrium, discusses how event organisers can
Raw foundation comments: COVID-19 – the truth about reusables and single-use plastic
In this comment-piece RAW founder and plastics campaigner, Mel Watson, gives an update on the negative effect that the coronavirus pandemic is having on