Beaches Cannes Palais Des Festivals Et Des Congres CannesBeaches Cannes Palais Des Festivals Et Des Congres CannesBeaches Cannes Palais Des Festivals Et Des Congres CannesThe Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes, organizer of the Festival, is ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 18788 (Safety-Security) and ISO 20121 (Responsible Event Management) certified. It is committed to reducing its environmental impact (waste management, energy consumption, CO₂ emissions), ensuring good working conditions (health, safety, awareness) and strengthening its sustainability (modernization, support for local players, new trade shows).
Actions to protect the environment
Fireworks manufacturers are increasingly concerned with environmental protection, and design fireworks to produce maximum enjoyment and visibility while using high-quality pyrotechnics in reasonable quantities and strategic locations.
In its programming, the festival selects teams of manufacturer or independent pyrotechnicians who focus on the quality of pyrotechnic items, not quantity. It’s not a question of “filling” tables with a mass of lower-quality products, but of giving preference to high-quality products, often European, for the largest calibres, whose persistence in the sky avoids excessive consumption.
Cleaning up the Bay of Cannes
For over 20 years, the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès has had specialized companies clean up the Festival firing zone in the Bay of Cannes and the seabed during the International Pyrotechnics Festival.
Since 2005, each Festival fireworks display has been followed by 2 clean-ups:
- Immediately after the fireworks, the first boat, equipped with long-range searchlights, goes out for 2 hours to collect surface waste, using nets on the sides of the boat (with a 3.5-metre span) attached to 70-litre bags.
- In the early hours of the next morning, divers then scoured the extended shooting zone to remove any waste that had settled on the seabed.
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The Festival forbids the use of bombs with plastic shells.
Firing cases or any other firing system can be connected via an HF (High Frequency) radio signal. There is no cable connection.
As sand consumption is a major environmental issue, the festival, which uses sand to wedge fireworks onto barges, is implementing new solutions to limit its use as much as possible. From 10 tonnes of bulk sand per firework 15 years ago, we have reduced our consumption to 6 tonnes per summer in recent years, thanks to the repackaging of more durable burlap bags, and will finally reduce our consumption to 2 tonnes per season by 2024, with a new wedging system for the largest calibres.
Public awareness campaigns
We’re encouraging the public to carpool or take the train, through communication on the website and social networks.
The SNCF is reinforcing and adapting its transport plan to coincide with the fireworks display.
