Whether you’re an organizer, promoter, artist, municipality, province, NGO, supplier, or brand – we collaborate worldwide to push the boundaries in making events more sustainable. The common thread is the sustainability of events in the creative sector. Additionally, we facilitate projects where municipalities and organizers work collectively. Together, we develop sustainable and social measures and impactful solutions.
Our impact programs focus on collaboration within the (international) events industry, aiming for practical solutions and innovation. With this mindset, we’re behind initiatives such as Green Deal Waste-Free Festivals, Green Deal Circular Festivals, ADE Green, and Plastic Promise.
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Circular Festivals
From 2015 to 2018, six industry-leading Dutch festival organisers joined forces for the Green Deal Waste Free Festivals, successfully working towards making festivals waste free. As a follow-up to that project, a new Green Deal with participants from six European countries in started. This time working towards Circular Festivals.
Plastic Promise
We’ve started a movement with pioneers from across the Dutch events industry, including AB Inbev, Amsterdam Open Air, Awakenings, Coca-Cola, Dekmantel, DGTL, Elevation Events, Grolsch, Heineken, ID&T, Loveland, MOJO concerts, Vrumona, the Vierdaagsefeesten, and Zwarte Cross.
ADE Green
With more than 400,000 attendees each year, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the most upfront and influential gathering for global music and its industry.
Waste-Free Festivals
In 2015, Green Events joined forces with Amsterdam Open Air, DGTL, Extrema Outdoor, Into The Great Wide Open, Mysteryland, Solar Weekend, Welcome to the Future, Welcome to the Village, Vierdaagsefeesten, Zwarte Cross, the Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management and NederlandSchoon as part of the ‘Green Deal Waste Free Festivals’ partnership.
Festival Sustainability Lab
Through Festival Sustainability Lab, a collaboration with Innofest, One Resilient Earth, and LiveGreen, we showcase best practices and innovations in the European festival industries. In 2023, we organized three different online learning trajectories focusing on innovation, sustainable event management, and climate resilience.
Duurzaamheidsladder Evenementen
The Sustainability Ladder for Events (in Dutch: DLE) addresses the need for harmonizing sustainability criteria for events, particularly among municipalities, organizers, and suppliers across the Netherlands.
