Based on Round Unity, at music festivals every particular person can generate a carbon footprint of roughly 500 kg of CO2. Environmental-minded artists have expressed their considerations and are beginning to demand environmental plans from live performance promoters. The alliance between Round Unity and Libelium permits for the measurement and certification of the carbon footprint in occasion celebrations.
Most important music festivals can generate a footprint of 500 kg of carbon dioxide per particular person, counting roundtrip, however can attain as much as 1500 kg when intensive journey is required. They’re regarding figures. Artists themselves have develop into conscious of this impactful dimension and voiced their considerations.
In 2019, Coldplay introduced that they’d not go on tour once more till they discovered a extra environmentally-friendly method. In 2021, the British band introduced that their subsequent tour would scale back its CO2 emissions by 50%. They achieved this by decreasing transportation by holding a number of concert events in a number of cities as an alternative of 1 live performance in every metropolis. Radiohead additionally calls for environmental measures from live performance promoters or festivals through which they take part as a requirement to signal contracts.
Nevertheless, not all bands can afford such calls for, so the issue persists. And it’s not solely relevant to music concert events or festivals. Sporting occasions, political rallies, and even spiritual vigils are celebrations that go away a big carbon emission footprint.
Conscious of the significance of addressing this subject, Round Unity and Libelium have joined forces in a technological alliance to measure, scale back, and certify the carbon footprint in occasion celebrations.
Round Unity is an organization devoted to growing software program for measuring and managing the environmental affect of occasions to attain most sustainability. Their primary purpose is to measure and scale back the carbon footprint generated throughout giant occasions by implementing eco-friendly practices and selling environmental duty within the occasion business.
To perform this, Round Unity depends on the technological answer supplied by Libelium, a famend firm specialising in IoT options.
Each corporations combine IoT and knowledge analytics to evaluate the environmental affect of an occasion
The partnership enhances the power to measure, scale back, and certify the carbon footprint in occasion celebrations. Libelium’s expertise collects knowledge in real-time associated to useful resource consumption, and different key parameters to evaluate the environmental affect of an occasion. This knowledge is built-in into Round Unity platform, the place it’s processed and analyzed to acquire a complete analysis of the generated carbon footprint. In addition to an in depth carbon footprint report, the platform additionally generates financial, social, environmental, circularity and SDGs reviews.
Because of Libelium’s intensive portfolio and the convenience of integration of their expertise, Round Unity can carry out exact measurements and certify the carbon footprint in real-time throughout occasions.
“As a soccer fan and Actual Madrid supporter, I respect the work corporations like Round Unity do to assist promoters and organizers run extra sustainable occasions. I really like going to the stadium to assist my favourite staff and, on the identical time, use this second to scale back our affect on the atmosphere. Is an honour for Libelium having the ability to work alongside Round Unity to measure our carbon footprint as followers, and now additionally as an organization.“
Jesús Estrada, CMO of Libelium
“Because the CEO of Round Unity, I’m proud to steer an organization devoted to measuring, decreasing, and future-proofing the environmental affect of occasions. By way of our dynamic partnership with Libelium, we deploy cutting-edge applied sciences to measure carbon footprints in real-time, empowering occasion organizers to make impactful choices, and shaping a future the place each celebration, massive or small, leaves a constructive mark on our planet.”
Eduardo Lebre, CEO of Round Unity
The alliance between Round Unity and Libelium opens up new prospects for the celebration of sustainable occasions, permitting us to get pleasure from any musical, sporting, or different sort of occasion consciously and with respect for the atmosphere.