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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 18,000 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.
Annecy Festival receives the REEVE Eco-Committed Event Level 1 certification.
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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 commitments:
1/ To limit our festivalgoers’ carbon footprint
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.
For the first time in 2026, an environmental fee has been introduced for all accreditations. This fee will help fund a forest restoration plan for areas around Lake Annecy in partnership with the ONF (National Forestry Office). This project, titled “Planting for Tomorrow,” aims to enrich the forest plots to make them more resilient to climate change and improve biodiversity, while also welcoming the public.
The reforestation of a 1.6-hectare area spread across three sites (within a 15-kilometer radius of the Festival) with diverse tree species better suited to the local environment and climate change (larch, oak, maple) is scheduled for the fall, with the planting of 1,600 trees!
2/ Control consumption
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
- Use eco-friendly materials and printing methods
- Opt for timeless signage materials that can be stored
3/ Provide responsible food
Check where products come from, prioritise responsible service providers
Provide vegetarian or low-carbon impact catering
4/ Reduce and recycle waste
5/ Implement a sustainable purchasing policy
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
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
Stay active as organisers
- Encourage stakeholders
- Encourage participants to adopt responsible reflexes
- Include content related to environmental responsibility in the programming