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Annecy Festival Commits!

Concerned about current issues and our impacts, we are constantly examining the way we design, produce and run our event, with an aim for ongoing improvement, to prepare for the future with commitment and to generate a more virtuous and sustainable ecosystem.

Concerned about current issues and our impacts, we are constantly examining the way we design, produce and run our event, with an aim for ongoing improvement, to prepare for the future with commitment and to generate a more virtuous and sustainable ecosystem.

If Annecy Festival plays a unique role in facilitating meetings, creation, business and transmission of values, this event, which attracts around 17,000 badgeholders, must examine the footprint it produces through its activity.

This is the reason why we are committed to a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach and have set up an action plan guided in particular by the "Sustainable Development Charter for Festivals" established by the French Ministry of Culture in 2021. In order to better guide our approach, we carried out a Bilan Carbone® in 2023.

 

Download "Annecy Festival Commits!" to find out more about our continuous improvement targets and associated tangible actions and our Guide for Responsible Festivalgoers.

Our main goals:

1/ To limit our festivalgoers’ carbon footprint

Objectif 1 : Limiter le bilan carbone lié à la venue des festivaliers

  • Promote carpooling

  • Offer a special rate on public transport in the conurbation
  • Improve private collective transport solutions
  • Encourage soft mobility by organising our events within a sensible perimeter
  • Encourage people to use bicycles, set up more bike parks

  • Calculate your trip's carbon footprint with the ADEME's calculator.

    Logo Ademe

  • Help save the forest and reduce my carbon footprint by donating to the fundraising campaign for the Fonds ONF – Agir pour la forêt.

    Logo Agir pour la forêt ONF

2/ Control consumption

Objectif 2

  • Install low-energy lighting systems

  • Limit the use of air conditioning, choose the most efficient appliances
  • Limit the use of paper-printed media as much as possible

3/ Provide responsible food

Objectif 3

  • Check where products come from, prioritise responsible service providers

  • Provide vegetarian or low-carbon impact catering  

  • Set up a redistribution or donation system for surplus food with the Banque alimentaire de Haute-Savoie

    Banque Alimentaire de Haute-Savoie

4/ Reduce and recycle waste

Objectif 4

Reduce waste

  • Encourage people to do without plastic bottles
  • Abandon single-use plastic tableware
  • Replace outdoor carpeting with wood flooring

Sort and recycle waste in collaboration with Aremacs and Excoffier

  • Install selective sorting bins and skips
  • Recycle our self-promotional tarpaulins

5/ Implement a sustainable purchasing policy

Objectif 5

  • Include ethical criteria in all our calls for tender

  • Rethink advertising objects

6/ Reinforce the quality of our public reception and cultivate improved social harmony

Objectif 6

  • Ensure safety and security for everyone, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, origin, religion or other group identity

  • Ensure accessibility
  • Deliver quality customer experience
  • Implement solidarity actions
  • Commit to parity, against sexual and gender-based violence and harassment, racism and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination
  • Share our cultural heritage and reinforce our local roots

7/ Raise awareness about ecological, social and societal responsibilities

Objectif 7

  • Stay active as organisers

  • Encourage stakeholders
  • Encourage participants to adopt responsible reflexes