Bonn Trade

Climate-neutral trade fair due to CO2 compensation Hofheim/Bonn. The natural textile InNTex is the most important order fair in the area of green fashion and natural textiles in Europe. Now, the sustainable InNTex trade fair concept is expanded gradually to active climate protection: this cooperates the InNTex Organizer this year with the Bonn climate protection agency CO2OL. Smartphone app for the calculation of the CO2 footprint the InNTex-visitors for the first time given the opportunity, live to calculate the footprint of their arrival via Smartphone. The newly developed tool has developed in collaboration with ecoScan initiative for sustainable consumer behaviour CO2OL.

Every visitor to the InNTex receives a voucher, a QR code is printed on the with its trade fair documents. Is this a read about the Smartphone camera, comes the visitor directly to an optimized website, which he step by step running through the calculation of its personal CO2 footprint. The user of both the current state of the climate protection project CO2OL is then “Tropical mix” informed, balanced use of your trade fair visit no longer avoidable CO2 emissions. The organizer of the InNTex automatically ensure that 80 kilograms of CO2 of every visitor be restored. Whose arrival has caused more CO2, which can compensate for the difference in addition even by CO2OL and in this way completely climate neutral perform his InNTex exhibition visit.

Regardless of the compensation leads the CO2 calculation visitors in mind, how much greenhouse gas emissions caused mobility and encourages the participants to avoid CO2 emissions through conscious action or to save. On a screen in the entrance area, all participants can inform therefore at any time about the current status: there is represented the number of compensated visitors arrive via live update in real time and so are animated more InNTex visitors to participate in.