Artevelde UAS, Claire and Love Tomorrow reduce CO2 emissions together

CO2 compensation means that a company or organisation offsets the CO2 emissions that cannot be avoided. By helping a school or residential care centre with energy-saving works or by storing CO2 in farming soils to improve the soil quality, you will also have a local impact. That is exactly what Love Tomorrow, the branch that is responsible for the sustainability of events like Tomorrowland, wants to achieve through the collaboration with Artevelde UAS.

‘Until recently, the amount of electricity that we could generate was rather limited, with 70 solar panels on Campus Watersportbaan and a few student homes', says Elena Lievens, sustainability policy officer at Artevelde UAS (pictured). 'Thanks to the collaboration with Claire and Love Tomorrow we can now add 1,386 panels. Spread across the campuses Hoogpoort, Kattenberg, Kantienberg and Sint-Amandsberg, we now have more than 1,400 panels. Every year, this helps us reduce our CO2 emissions by 67.5 tonnes.'

So it is a triple win: Love Tomorrow offsets part of the festival's CO2 emissions, Artevelde UAS becomes more sustainable, after making previous efforts in insulation and energy-efficient devices, and the planet benefits from a significant reduction in CO2 emissions.

'With this collaboration, Artevelde UAS and Love Tomorrow prove that it is time to step up a gear in the climate transition', says Joris De Keijser, founder and bioengineer at Claire. 'Both organisations are well-integrated with young people. 'We are already reducing our ecological footprint today through the power of local collaboration.'