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English football team Forest Green Rovers has been awarded Outstanding status by environmental group, A Greener Future (AGF).
The club plays at The New Lawn, which boasts the world’s first organic football pitch, solar panels on the roof as well as outside, water and oil recycling systems, and a completely vegan menu.
“Forest Green Rovers are pleased to have once again achieved Outstanding in our annual AGF certification – which is surely the toughest standard in the world today,” said Forest Green Rovers chairman Dale Vince.
“We were the first to achieve this level and are still the only one – we encourage all other arenas to up their game and join us in the stratosphere of greenness.”
The O2 Arena in London and Glasgow’s OVO Hydro have been awarded Commended status while ABBA Voyage London, Barclays Arena in Hamburg, Leeds’ First Direct Arena, and Berlin’s Uber Arena and Uber Eats Music Hall have all been labelled as Improvers.
“We’re really happy to see the increasing uptake of venues aspiring to be greener,” said AGF chief executive Claire O’Neill.
“What is most important are the actions these venues are taking to improve touring and their impacts on the local and global environment. These venues have a significant platform which can influence and speed up the green transition of the event sector, something that we so urgently need to do.”
In order to become certified, venues undertake an assessment based upon AGF’s framework which includes themes such as local environments and community, travel, food, energy, water, waste, and governance.
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