A whopping 63% of Shambala’s carbon footprint is from audience travel (2019 figures), and over 90% is from all travel combined i.e. audience, crew, artists, and infrastructure deliveries.

Back in 2015, Shambala and YOU, our festival goers, co-founded an unprecedented festival industry initiative ‘Energy Revolution’, aiming to tackle travel impacts. It’s now called onboard:earth, and has achieved a lot:

• We’ve worked with over 100 festivals to implement more sustainable travel planning
• Balanced the equivalent of 19m travel miles with positive climate investments
• Planted over 40,000 trees
• Invested in 10 renewable energy projects
• Protected 12,000 acres of rainforest

To play our part, the festival has measured and balanced 100% of the emissions from the festival operations and crew travel by investing in projects which quantifiably avoid or reduce carbon. You can see our impact report here, which shows our footprint for 2023.

If you buy a car or van pass when you buy your tickets, a balancing fee is included.

You can also use Onboard’s free carbon calculator to balance your travel throughout the year.