Sustainability

• The LIONS Sustainability Hub in partnership with ACT Responsible is the home of the sustainability conversation at the Festival. Open every day between 9am and 6pm it’s filled with inspirational work, ideas for practical action and a place to meet like-minded individuals.
• Join the Sustainability Hub Meet Up ‘Kill ‘Em With Positivity: A Meet-Up with Goodvertising’s Thomas Kolster’ on Thursday at 2.30pm.
• Come along to the 'Open House for Good' where we open the doors to Debussy Foyer to Festival attendees without a pass and welcome everyone in who wants to be part of a sustainable future for our industry.

As well as being inspired by the inspirational actions on display in the LIONS Sustainability Hub, in partnership with ACT Responsible. Come along to a range of content packed with ideas that you can pick up and use in your organisation.

Search #sustainability on the programme for all the relevant content, a few highlights include:

• Can We Change the World by Changing Consumer Demand by Cannes Lions and WARC | Creative Impact Unpacked

• Climate Information Integrity before COP30: Opportunities and Risks for Advertisers by Conscious Advertising Network, Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, United Nations and UNESCO

• Laughing at Doom: Using Humour to Talk about Illness/Hellscapes by 21GRAMS (a part of Real Chemistry) and Biogen

• Kill ‘Em With Positivity: A Meet-Up with Goodvertising’s Thomas Kolster | Festival Meet-Up

• Sustainable Creativity in the ‘Country of Beauty’ by ProColombia

• Hear from Boaz Paldi on Future Gazers: Neuemotion, Cognitiv, United Nations Development Program by Cannes Lions

• Solar power: All the charging stations in the Palais use solar power so recharge your devices the renewable way.
• Reducing single-use plastic: Water fountains are available around the Palais and Parvis, so bring a refillable water bottle and stay hydrated whilst avoiding single use packaging.
• Recycle: There are lots of recycling bins around the Festival making it easier for you to get rid of waste sustainably.
• Partner donations station: New for 2025, on Thursday and Friday at the Festival, partners will be able to donate leftover merchandise at our donation station in the basement of the Palais. We will be working with our supplier Greenbee to distribute the products to schools and charities within Cannes and surrounding areas.
• Greener travel: Did you know there is a direct train from Paris to Cannes? Catching the train uses considerably less carbon emissions than flying and means you don’t have to transfer from Nice, just step off the train and walk to your hotel. We encourage our colleagues to get the train and offset all the travel for colleagues and the jury.

• The Awards sit at the heart of the Festival. The work submitted to Glass: The Lion for Change and the Sustainable Development Goals Lions showcase the best examples of creativity which have advanced the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and/or addressed inequality and prejudice around the world. The examples of this work can be viewed in both the basement of the Palais and at a dedicated ‘Work’ station in the LIONS Sustainability Hub.
• The ACT Responsible Exhibition for Good can also be found in the LIONS Sustainability Hub and showcases impactful advertising from the past 12 months that addresses social and environmental challenges.