Taking sustainable steps as a responsible business: Our journey with ecolibrium
As a company who takes our responsibility to the environment seriously, we’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint and working towards a sustainable future. We’re really proud to be working with the ecolibrium programme, a transformative initiative that helps us identify and offset our carbon footprint caused by team commutes to work on events, both nationally and internationally.
ecolibrium is a live events industry response to the climate crisis – uniting a community of events, festivals, suppliers, artists and music companies in environmental restoration by moving climate action and low-carbon travel into the heart of live events culture. It empowers companies like ours to take proactive measures in reducing our carbon emissions. We gather travel information from across our team, which allows us to calculate our carbon offset.
This calculated offset then enables us to make a meaningful financial contribution to our chosen ecolibrium project –Trees+. Through this programme we can mitigate the impacts of unavoidable travel CO2e emissions by investing in climate solutions.
Every tonne of CO2e balanced by the Trees+ programme includes:
- Offsetting: Balancing carbon emissions through verified projects: UK government approved Woodland Carbon Code for projects in the UK, Verified Carbon Standard or REDD+ standard for projects worldwide.
- Protection: Protecting areas of threatened rainforest – reducing deforestation and protecting biodiversity.
- Regeneration: Social and environmental regeneration through tree planting, sustainable farming, forestry protection and local governance in parts of the world most at risk from climate change.
In 2022, we successfully offset 14.33 tonnes of CO2E, equivalent to 51,961 company travel miles, through tree planting, rainforest protection, and ecosystem restoration.
In 2023, we’re proud to have offset our carbon levels in 2023 with circa 40 trees planted and 14 acres protected (3072 tCo2e stored).
Joining the ecolibrium programme means becoming part of a community united in ecosystem restoration and sustainability. Our contribution is supporting the ambition to move low carbon travel to the heart of the live events culture by protecting threatened rainforest, planting trees and protecting biodiversity. By using our voice for positive change, we’re not only cutting our travel carbon emissions but also funding community-led clean energy projects and investing in a low carbon future.
Together, as a united force for sustainability, we’re confident that our efforts, along with those of the ecolibrium community will pave the way for a cleaner, greener future for the live events industry and beyond.
You can learn more about ecolibrium by visiting their website.