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Lights in Alingsås compensates for emissions
Now that the Lights in Alingsås festival is over for this year, we can see that we need to compensate for approximately 33 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
– We are certainly going to ensure that the Lights in Alingsås workshop continues as an environmentally-certified and sustainable lighting event, says Kjell Hult, Development Manager with Alingsås municipality and ABAR representative. From our point of view this year’s Lights in Alingsås festival was a success, even if visitor numbers were a little lower than previous years.
The climate compensation scheme applies mainly to car and international plane journeys and train
journeys.
– I’ve developed a table with different environmental parameters to help me calculate how to compensate correctly for any greenhouse emissions generated by the Lights in Alingsås festival, says Fredrik Wizemann from Alingsås Energi, who is also responsible for the festival’s environmental certification process.
In November, Alingsås Energi was compensated for removing greenhouse emissions from the market. The festival paid for a total of 25 tons of emissions generated by the more than 60 students who attended the workshop week in Alingsås, as well as the 8 tons generated by the international flights of the 8 lighting designers.
Will Lights in Alingsås continue to be an environmentally certified event in 2017?
This year’s festival theme based on the UN’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, the process of environmental certification and the fact that the festival had to comply with municipal sustainability goals, had financial consequences as well as increasing the workloads of those involved. Retaining environmental certification is the next goal. This is something which will require a great deal from the project organization, at both micro and macro levels.
– Next year it will be my job to ensure that certification continues, says Fredrik. The process is far less work the second time, when we already have some routines in place. But in the end, it’s naturally a financial question which the Board needs to decide on, Fredrik Wizemann concludes.
– It’s crucial for the status and creativity of the Lights in Alingsås festival that during the workshop we employ the best lighting designers in the world to design and construct the light trail together with all the students, says Kjell Hult. We gladly compensate for the emissions generated by their trips – in the long run Alingsås will gain.
More about Lights in Alingsås: www.lightsinalingsas.se
For further information or questions contact:
Fredrik Wizemann, Enviromental Officer
Tel: +46 (0) 322 61 76 11
Angelica Larsson, Event Manager
Tel: +46 (0) 70 780 08 54
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About Lights in Alingsås
Every October since the year 2000, leading lighting designers have been invited to Alingsås to demonstrate their expertise. For five weeks, dar evenings and outdoor environments are turned into fascinating and exciting lighting installations. Cold, anonymous facades are transformed into warm and colorful spaces, forest lakes can get a whole new perspective, and these oases of light provide new attractive venues in the town.
Lights in Alingsås attracts more than 85 000 visitors every year and the urban lighting exhibition has become the largest lighting event in public spaces in Northern Europe. Lights in Alingsås is an important meeting point for lighting designers, students and professionals who work with light. The owner of the project is the municipality of Alingsås, who make the project possible through partners such as Sparbanken Alingsås, Alingsås Energi, FABS and Alingsåshem. Exclusive mediapartners: Mondo Arc and Alingsås Tidning.
