Measuring tool of the GDCF

The GDCF Monitor is the measuring tool of the Green Deal Circular Festivals and is key in the green transformation of festivals and other events. Monitoring helps to determine where interventions can have the highest impact, assess whether goals are achieved, and how strategy, goals, and projects need to be revised or refined. Therefore, the GDCF Monitor includes various indicators for each of the five themes of the Model for a Circular and Climate neutral Festival.

Overall dashboards and festival dashboards

The Monitor consists of overall dashboards, making visible the impact and progress of the festivals participating in the GDCF and who are using the Monitor. The overall dashboards are accessible via the buttons. In a closed and secured environment, the participating festivals have access to their own dashboards, showing their individual impact and progress over time in terms of material footprint and carbon emissions.

Monitor is work in progress

The GDCF Monitor has been developed in close collaboration with the participating festivals, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and various knowledge partners. The Monitor was brought into practice in 2022 and will further develop overtime. This will allow for optimizations based on the experiences of festivals with using the Monitor, and based on evolving insights related to measuring of material footprints and carbon emissions. It is the ambition of the GDCF to align various measuring tools, aiming for synergy and consistency in the various tools being offered, to help move festivals and other events forward in their sustainable transition. Therefore, the indicators and measuring methods of the GDCF Monitor are available via the User Guide of the GDCF Monitor. The User Guide (and Monitor) will be updated annually. Please share your experiences, comments, tips and requests to further develop monitoring for festivals: circularfestivals@outlook.com.