• International agf awards

  • Recognise Festivals, Events, Venues, and Arenas that are groundbreaking in their sustainability actions

  • Winners ARE selected from the detailed AGF assessments, site visits, evidence and analysis by trained sustainable event auditors.

Recognising the very best
in live event sustainability

The International AGF Awards are where we celebrate and recognise festivals, events, arenas and suppliers that are really breaking ground in event sustainability, and to ultimately present the top prize attainable –
The International Greener Festival Award.

The International AGF Awards ceremony will take place on 27th February 2024 directly following the Green Events & Innovations Conference.  

Nominees are selected from the detailed AGF assessments, site visits, evidence and analysis by trained sustainability auditors over the last year. This included over 36 festivals, venues and organisations from 14 countries in 2023.

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The Categories

  • International greener festival award

    The top prize awarded to those leaders in the field who prioritize sustainability in everything they do. It recognizes those breaking new ground and achieving remarkable results across all areas of environmental commitment.

  • 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 smashing the pants off reducing their carbon footprint and still delivering the party!

  • 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 to a more sustainable relationship between one another and our planet. (this would be called the greener food award but sounds a bit off!)

  • Greener Power Award

    Event power is a hot topic in the realm of sustainability and 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.

  • Community Action Award

    A strong connection with local community and sense of community within the event 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.

  • Circular Festival Award

    This one goes to the festival that has demonstrated a firm grasp of the need to close the loop on their resources flow. Every item that comes in to the event ultimately has a plan above disposal. Preventing waste, reusing, recycling and demonstrating the full traceability of all movement of materials both in and out of the event.

  • Water & Sanitation Award

    The winner of this award has shown clear environmental concern in their water usage and sanitation provisions, by reducing water usage and waste, minimizing production and poo mileage, eliminating unnecessary chemicals and separating liquid waste streams to allow natural biological processes to harness valuable nutrients.

  • 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 in to something good. This award can go to either an event, and individual or a supplier that has stood out the most from the global event assessments.

  • 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!

The Winners 2024

  • INTERNATIONAL GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD

    Boom Festival (PT)

    Cambridge Folk Festival (UK)

    Green Gathering (UK)

    Øyafestivalen (NO)

    Paradise City Festival (BE)

    We Love Green (FR)

  • AGF 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)

  • AGF 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)

  • AGF Circular Festival 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)

  • AGF 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)

  • AGF 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)

  • AGF 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)

  • AGF Water & 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)

  • AGF 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)

PREVIOUS WINNERS