greenloop is blooloop’s conference focusing on sustainability in visitor attractions. Be inspired and informed by the industry’s leading voices in sustainability.
If you attended the greenloop 24 conference then please get in touch for a coupon for free access to these recordings - events@blooloop.com.
Welcome to greenloop, then Professor Peter Cox, Director of the Global Systems Institute and Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter, opens greenloop by looking back at the extreme weather and record warming of 2023 and discuss what this means for the future and how it will impact our industry.
Further info:
Hopeful message from top climate scientist - what can visitor attractrions do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RYikrdeKVM
Comedians translating climate science: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateScienceBreakthrough
blooloop's useful sustainability links: https://blooloop.com/sustainability-strategy/
Nick Merriman, chief executive at English Heritage and Sarah Sutton, CEO at Environment and Culture Partners will discuss why the museum sector has been slow to act on the climate crisis, and how our cultural institutions can accelerate action and authentically amplify their influence.
Merriman’s excellent new book Museums and the Climate Crisis, for which Sutton contributed a chapter, will provide the basis for the session.
Dare Ilori, group sustainability director at Merlin Entertainments, will be talking about Merlin’s sustainability strategy and progress updates, highlighting useful lessons learned and challenges ahead. A not-to-be-missed informative and inspiring session from the world’s second-largest visitor attraction operator.
Checkout Merlin's emissions reporting on page 28.
https://www.merlinentertainments.biz/media/5321/motion-jvco-annual-report-and-accounts-2022.pdf
Michael Clifford, Strategy Director of Reverse the Red will explain how the organisation is trying to strategically co-ordinate conservation efforts, with initiatives such as the World Species Congress. We will then speak to Judy Mann-Lang, Executive Strategic Projects at Two Oceans Aquarium and Eugenia Cordero Schmidt, Program Officer at Center for Species Survival Brazil (CSS Brazil) to hear how collaborating with Reverse the Red helps them in their work.
Reverse the Red is a global movement that ignites strategic cooperation and action to ensure the survival of wild species and ecosystems. Data-driven and collaborative, Reverse the Red provide the tools and partnerships to unite stakeholders and catalyze conservation impact.
Anyone in any organisation that has biodiversity goals should attend this session!
And then goodbye and thank you from the greenloop team!
Andreas Andersen, CEO Liseberg and Chair of IAAPA's Global Sustainability Committee, will be discussing IAAPA’s ambitious work on sustainability. IAAPA, the global association for the attractions industry,announced the results of its preliminary, and thorough, scoping work on ESG in December 2023.
More details will follow, but the organisation’s plans include not only assistance for members, but also work to look at its own operations. Six flagship initiatives have been identified around Net Zero, Zero Waste, diversity and inclusion targets, communications and disclosure and membership ESG support.
Lindsay Madden-Nadeau, senior director – wellness strategy at Red Sea Global, speaks about trends she is seeing in wellness and sustainability, and RSG's commitment to sustainable development.
Attendees can find out more here:
https://www.redseaglobal.com/en/responsible-development
Interview with RSG'd CEO John Pagano: Red Sea Global: inspired by nature, led by science
Edi Goean, vice president of new business partnerships at Therme Group and Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, director of the University of Surrey’s Institute for Sustainability, will present a ground-breaking new carbon tokenomics model.
This carbon-centric ecosystem will help all organisations in the visitor economy to access traceable, real and permanent climate finance investments.
Verónica Celis Vergara, CEO at Valumia, and Tim Pethick, Founder and CEO at Nomad Exhibitions will join Rachel Read, co-founder of blooloop to speak to small businesses and the particular challenges faced by those wanting to measure their carbon footprints without the resources to hire a consultant or invest in a fancy measurement platform.
See also useful links here: https://blooloop.com/sustainability-strategy/
Una deBoer, Chief Marketing Officer at WhiteWater, Cindi Rowan, Director, Landscape Architecture Studio at Forrec and Chris Grap, vice president of experiential entertainment at Mall of America, will speak about sustainability in action. We will hear how Mall of America tells visitors about its sustainability plans, how Forrec designs sustainably and what sustainable innnovations WhiteWater is using.
Here are some great membership organisations explaining what they do. You don't have to reinvent the wheel or go it alone!
Check out:
SAVe (Audio Visual incl reuse)
Gallery Climate Coalition (Visual Arts and adjacent with FREE carbon calculator)
Products of Change (Brand licensing incl packaging)
Robbie Jones, insights director at Katapult, will reveal the winner of Katapult's Helping Hands Initiative. It has been running for six years and supports visitor attractions, charities and community interest groups in the leisure industry to achieve their project objectives.
https://blooloop.com/sustainability/news/katapult-reveals-2024-helping-hands-project-winner/