Impact and compensation

Calculate the carbon footprint of your event

You can estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by all the activities associated with your event. The transport sector is the largest emitter of GHGs at an event, but you shouldn’t underestimate the contribution of other emissions such as energy, food, accommodation and the use of certain products or services.

To estimate the carbon footprint of your event, there are free simulators:

• The Good Planet Foundation’s calculator, which offers a diagnosis for your trip.
• Mon Impact Transport, a tool created by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) that allows you to compare the impact of your journeys more accurately according to the different means of transport (bike, metro, bus, car, etc.).
• ADERE offers you a practical tool to help you initiate a responsible approach to organising and staging a business event, from conception to completion.

Offsetting the impact of your event

In areas where you are unable to reduce the impact of your event, you can compensate by taking various actions to support local initiatives.

To limit waste at your event, you can get in touch with associations such as La Banque Alimentaire de Toulouse et sa région.

The BA31 is part of the Fédération Française des Banques Alimentaires, a federation of 79 food banks throughout France. Its raison d’être is to help people to eat, with the missions of combating precariousness and food waste, promoting social integration and helping its partner associations.

If you want to limit the impact of large-scale events, you can help associations and companies that offer a range of initiatives. La Glanerie, for example, is a circular economy company that recovers furniture and professional equipment to give them a second life. Or artstockasso, a waste management association for festivals and cultural events.

If you’d like to get involved, you can take part in group waste collections. Waste collection campaigns are organised by Champs d’action, an association based in Toulouse.
These actions allow you to act together, on your own scale, and raise awareness among participants and observers of the fight against pollution caused by waste.

All these initiatives will have a positive impact not only on the environment, but also on the local economy and community.

Finally, to offset your carbon footprint, you can get in touch with ecotree, a tree-buying platform that allows you to invest in trees for sustainable forest management. By doing so, you’ll be helping to enhance forest areas and biodiversity.