Demonstrate your Commitment to Nature in 2027
Are you a busy event organiser or event producer looking to demonstrate your commitment to the environment? Do you lack the time and capacity to measure your audience travel footprint?
Or struggle to know what is the most impactful way to fund nature restoration and which scheme you can trust to actually deliver on?
We understand. After 10 years of working with busy festival organisers and event staff who juggle sustainability as one of their many hats we know that you want to:
- Demonstrate that you care for people and planet
- Acknowledge the impact your event has
- Be able to talk about your actions
- Know that any scheme you support will have a verifiable impact
- Make it relatable to your audience
However, due to the demands of your role and the challenges of gathering audience travel data and analysing it, you don’t necessarily have the data or means for carbon offsetting.
We created Canopy & Coast just for you.
(If you are already a Trees+ contributor, this scheme continues, providing a verified offset for your travel carbon footprint. See the table below for a comparison of Trees+ and Canopy & Coast)
Introducing Canopy and Coast for UK events
Canopy & Coast is our new scheme for events who want to demonstrate their commitment to nature, acknowledge the impact of audience travel and share great stories with their community without offsetting. It supports nature protection and habitat restoration in the UK and around the world
Every £20 donated, will fund:
- 1 acre of threatened rainforest protected – preserving vital habitat for endangered wildlife and protecting biodiversity in perpetuity.
- 1 tree planted in the UK in a community project – this can be directed to a project local to your event
- 3 trees planted by communities living on the frontlines of climate breakdown – these trees not only restore degraded landscapes, they also provide long term livelihood options for women and communities.
- 5 seagrass plugs planted – to restore the marine ecosystem on the UK coastline
- onboard:earth supported to enable live events to tackle their travel emissions and create a collective legacy.
How to include Canopy and Coast in your 2027 ticket sales
We recommend adding a mandatory climate levy to all ticket sales or car passes and clearly communicating this to your audience. This brings your audience together and demonstrates your shared values – that protecting our amazing planet is not optional. It also ensures a robust amount of donations will be collected, making a bigger impact for nature and better stories to share with your community.
These are the suggested figures for a mandatory climate levy depending on the scale or size of your event. We already have winter wonderland events adding 25p and larger music festivals adding £2 – £5 to every ticket.
| Tier Name | Event Type | Typical Audience Travel | Suggested Climate Levy |
| Community Pulse | Local community, wellbeing, school proms, student societies. | Mostly walking, cycling, public transport; some car travel. | £0.25–£0.50 per ticket |
| Urban Collective | City-centre music gigs & day festivals, conferences, exhibitions, charity & sporting events. | City-wide and regional travel; public transport and car journeys. | £0.50–£1.00 per ticket |
| Fields & Festivals | Greenfield, out-of-town and camping festivals. | Long-distance driving, coach travel, limited public transport. | £1.50–£2.00 per ticket |
| Global Stage | Professional large-scale conferences & expos, awards ceremonies, TEDx, stadium-scale tours. | Cross-country and international; all modes incl. air travel. | £2.50–£5.00 per ticket |
What’s the difference between Trees+ and Canopy & Coast?
Trees+ remains our signature carbon offsetting programme which includes a verified carbon offset through a high integrity, community-led project. Canopy & Coast offers nature based solutions to acknowledge the damage done to the planet by travel to events, but does not offer a verified offset.
| What’s included | Trees+offset | Canopy & Coast |
| Costs | £29 per tCO2e funds all of the below | £20 funds all of the below |
| Carbon offset– A verified carbon offset that balances carbon by reducing deforestation as well as improving the lives of women and girls in Togo | Y | N |
| Rainforest protection – 1 acre of threatened rainforest protected – preserving vital habitat for endangered wildlife and protecting biodiversity in perpetuity | Y | Y |
| International tree planting – 3 trees planted by communities living on the frontlines of climate breakdown – these trees not only restore degraded landscapes, they also provide long term livelihood options for women and communities. | Y | Y |
| UK tree planting – 1 tree planted in the UK in a community project – this can be directed to a project local to your event | N | Y |
| Seagrass restoration – 5 seagrass seedlings raised and planted – to help restore the marine ecosystem on the UK coastline. | Y | Y |
| Organisational support – onboard:earth supported to enable live events to tackle their travel emissions and create a collective legacy. | Y | Y |
| Social media assets provided | Y | Y |
How to offer Canopy and Coast for your 2027 tickets
Simply complete this short form to confirm your commitment to people and planet and we will send you an agreement, logos and more details about the scheme to put on your website.
Environmental restoration projects you can trust
At onboard:earth, we know carbon offsetting and tree‑planting schemes have had their fair share of bad press, and it can feel risky to donate — especially when you’ve collected funds from your audience or customers in good faith.
That’s exactly why we carry out a rigorous due‑diligence process. It ensures your carbon offset or climate levy contributions go only to verified, reputable projects that genuinely deliver for people and the planet.
- We are a UK registered charity with exceptional governance standards
- A strong, clear and transparent methodology and rationale for everything we do
- In-depth due diligence in place for all partners through our Investment Committee with advice from external sustainability and carbon market consultants and climate investment experts, available to clients.
- All projects will be required to report on the activity/ impact of donations which we share with our members to help celebrate and amplify positive action.
FAQs
Q. What is the difference between Trees+ and Canopy & Coast?
A. Trees+ is our verified carbon offsetting option for organisations who have calculated their carbon footprint and can share their workings with us – we have lots of tools we can share with you. .
Canopy and Coast is for those who don’t yet have the capacity to calculate the carbon footprint of their event or audience travel but want to acknowledge the impact that their event has and demonstrate their commitment to the environment.
Q. Can you do Trees+ and Canopy & Coast together?
Yes. Trees+ is for those events who are looking to offset their unavoidable carbon footprint that they have gathered data from non-audience travel data to waste and energy impacts.
A. Canopy and Coasts is ideal as an audience facing initiative that is included at the ticket purchase phase
Q. Do we have to do a mandatory climate levy to use these initiatives
A. We recommend Canopy & Coast as a mandatory climate levy that can be added to a ticket or a car/vehicle pass.
A mandatory levy brings your audience together, generates a robust amount of donations that have an impact on protecting nature, and demonstrates your values that protecting the planet is not optional.
For more details email hello@onboard.earth