AGF (A Greener Future) reveals 27 events, venues and innovators from 12 countries as finalists in the International AGF Awards 2024. Awards are given across 9 important sustainability categories, including power, water, food and travel, and the top accolade of the International Greener Festival Award 2024. The ceremony will be held on 27th February during the Green Events & Innovations Conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.
Finalists are selected from all AGF certified Greener Events, Greener Festivals and Greener Arenas over the last year, with top scores across key sustainability criteria. Applicants undergo a detailed assessment, site visits, and analysis by AGF auditors. To be eligible to enter the awards it is necessary to apply for certification and provide evidence such as fuel or electricity and water usage, waste transfer notes, transport measurements, material traceability, and survey data and undergo a site visit from AGF Assessors. Additionally, green innovations from festivals and events have been selected and are judged by an independent jury.
AGF CEO Claire O’Neill said: “We’re very excited to be bringing the International AGF Awards back to GEI in February. It’s always great fun, and an honour to be able to highlight and celebrate organisations and individuals who are doing everything they can to make positive changes in the world. Huge congrats to all of the nominees!”
And the Finalists are:
INTERNATIONAL GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD
Boom Festival (PT)
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
Green Gathering (UK)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
We Love Green (FR)
GREENER TRANSPORT AWARD
Das Fest (DE)
Godiva Festival (UK)
Jardín de las Delicias (ES)
NorthSide (DK)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
Rosendal Garden Party (SE)
We Love Green (FR)
CIRCULAR EVENT AWARD
(for reduced waste & resourcefulness)
Boom Festival (PT)
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
Green Gathering (UK)
I Land Sound (EE)
Love Saves the Day (UK)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Northside (DK)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD
American Express presents BST Hyde Park (UK)
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
Forwards (UK)
Green Gathering (UK)
I Land Sound (EE)
Robin Hood Annual Benefit (US)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Sonidos Líquidos: Malvasía Weekend Festival (ES)
GREENER CATERING AWARD
Boom Festival (PT)
Green Gathering (UK)
I Land Sound (EE)
NorthSide (DK)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
Valley Fest (UK)
We Love Green (FR)
PIED PIPER AWARD
(for Greener Communication)
Boom Festival (PT)
Forwards (UK)
Green Gathering (UK)
Green Man (UK)
Greenbelt Festival (UK)
I Land Sound (EE)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Sonidos Líquidos: Malvasía Weekend Festival (ES)
GREENER POWER AWARD
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
Camp Quirky (UK)
Das Fest (DE)
Green Gathering (UK)
NorthSide (DK)
Øyafestivalen (NO)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
We Love Green (FR)
WATER AND SANITATION AWARD
American Express presents BST Hyde Park (UK)
Boom Festival (PT)
Cabaret Vert (FR)
Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)
Green Gathering (UK)
Green Man (UK)
Paradise City Festival (BE)
We Love Green (FR)
GREENER INNOVATIONS AWARD
First Biofuel powered event in Argentina@ BNP (AR)
Restoration and Regeneration @ Cabaret Vert (FR)
6 Degrees by Team Love & re:right design (UK)
Bespoke baler and compactor@ Green Man, in collaboration with Waste Baling Machines (UK)
ChefChain @ Into The Great Wide Open (NL)
The 1975 Carbon Removed Gigs – The O2 (UK)
AONB and Dark skies project@ We Out Here (UK)
The International AGF Award ceremony is accessible and takes place during GEI, organised by AGF in partnership with the ILMC (International Live Music Conference). Limited tickets are available here Green Events & Innovations Conference.
Notes to Editors
About AGF
AGF is a not-for-profit company and founders of the world’s first sustainability standards for festivals and events. Committed to helping events, festivals and venues around the world to be greener, AGF provides certification, education and training, consultancy, resources and green riders, and facilitating the exchange of good ideas. They share information about how environmentally efficient methods are currently being employed at events and how the impact on the environment can be limited at future events. They offer independent assessment and verification of events and venues sustainability claims through the AGF certification for festivals, venues, tours and events. https://www.agreenerfuture.com
Category descriptions
International Greener Festival Award
The highest scoring festival worldwide in the Greener Festival certification assessments.
Greener Transport Award
One of the biggest impacts of many temporary events. Audience, production, crew and artists with our transport sector still staggeringly carbon heavy, who’s reducing their carbon footprint, facilitating green travel, and still delivering the party.
Circular Event Award
This one goes to the event that has demonstrated a firm grasp of the need to close the loop on their resources flow. Every item that comes into the event or venue ultimately has a plan above disposal. Preventing waste, reusing, recycling and demonstrating the full traceability of all materials coming in and out of the event.
Community Action Award
A strong connection with the local community and sense of community within the event or venue is celebrated here. This award recognises those demonstrating outstanding social inclusion, action for unity and acceptance between people, and positive projects that provide benefit to others beyond the event itself.
Greener Catering Award
Food is such a significant issue for sustainability for its ethical and environmental impacts both globally and locally. By consciously crafting our consumption choices and what we support with our bellies, we can make some huge strides toward a more sustainable relationship between one another and our planet.
Pied Piper Award (Greener Communications)
Who has the silver tongue and skips along like the pied piper, luring unsuspecting victims to a greener way?! This award goes to the event that has had an excellent communication and PR plan which has resulted in significant cultural or behavioural changes for the greener good within and beyond their event!
Greener Power Award
Event power is a hot topic in the realm of sustainability, and costs, and is also a hotbed for innovation. This award goes to the event that has successfully maximised their energy efficiency and adopted a power source that has the lowest impact on the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
Water & Sanitation Award
The winner of this award has shown clear environmental consideration in their water usage and sanitation provisions, by reducing water usage and waste, minimising production and poo mileage, eliminating unnecessary chemicals and separating liquid waste streams to allow natural biological processes to harness valuable nutrients and conserve water.
Greener Innovation Award
This goes to the outstanding innovation, initiative or invention that has been a game changer in the green event space, that has disrupted business as usual or has given a new solution to help turn something problematic into something good. This award can go to either an event, venue, individual or supplier that has stood out the most in the last 12 months.