Sustainability

In May 2021 Adelaide Fringe committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an ongoing pledge to generate positive social and environmental change. Our Sustainability Committee has identified seven of the seventeen goals that Adelaide Fringe will work to implement whilst creating awareness on all seventeen goals. A to-do list for the world, the ‘Global Goals’ are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.

Adelaide Fringe’s Sustainability Committee collaborated with external experts and internal departments to devise the actions within this plan. The actions have been created organically by the committee and represent Adelaide Fringe’s sincere dedication to positive social and environmental change.

Adelaide Fringe’s Global Goals Action Plan will be publicly available when finalised in 2022. Some goals we have achieved and are currently implementing include:

Maintain a minimum of 50% Adelaide Fringe HQ staff qualified in Mental Health First Aid at all times.

Commit to providing a Professional Development Series to upskill and train creative entrepreneurs.

Create, implement and review a Reconciliation Action Plan, lodged with Reconciliation Australia. Establishing a baseline carbon footprint for its HQ operations in order to reduce in the first instance, and create an offset policy where reduction isn’t feasibly possible.