AWE has declared that all of its future worldwide shows (including the upcoming AWE USA event at the end of May) will be carbon-neutral.

The event’s entire carbon footprint, including more than 5 million miles of attendee air-travel, will be offset through verified carbon reduction projects from corporate sustainability leader Terrapass. To learn more about these efforts, click here.

Terrapass has helps businesses, institutions, and individuals, take responsibility for their impact on the climate. This has resulted in projects that have reduced greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere equivalent to billions of tons of carbon dioxide.

“Terrapass has confirmed that AWE has neutralized the estimated carbon emissions from the AWE USA 2023 event by funding 1,238 mT of carbon offsets from verified carbon reduction projects. Estimated carbon emissions are based on operational data provided to Terrapass by AWE for venue, shipping, air travel, car travel, ground transportation, hotels, paper, water bottles, meals, and waste,” said the company in a recent press release.

AWE has followed the Terrapass model of calculating, reducing, and offseting the event’s worldwide carbon footprint—both at the events and in its business operations. AWE USA is now completely carbon-neutral, according to show organizers. Organizers claim offsetting the event’s entire carbon footprint AWE’s carbon impact is the equivalent to planting 20,470 trees or removing emissions from 300 cars for a full year. Through the Terrapass partnership, once event attendees complete registration, they are encouraged to offset their own carbon footprint, extending the impact and making the event carbon negative.

“Since our inception, it has been AWE’s mission to further human progress through technology and harness the power of XR to fight the greatest challenges facing humanity,” said Ori Inbar, co-founder of AWE. “No one can argue the horrific effects carbon dioxide waste has inflicted on our planet’s ecosystem—we firmly believe there is no greater challenge today, and as such we have committed to do all that we can to leverage our platform and community in service of fighting climate change.”