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Tim Pethick Founder and CEO Nomad Exhibitions

Tim Pethick, founder and CEO of Nomad Exhibitions, is leading the way in creating the world’s first and only carbon neutral touring exhibition. Nomad Exhibitions specialises in the design and production of innovative and expertly-designed temporary, touring and permanent exhibitions for museums, galleries and cultural venues across the world. Pethick has gone above and beyond when it comes to measuring, reducing and offsetting the company’s carbon footprint.

As Nomad is an SME, Pethick did not use an outside consultancy for the carbon footprint project. Despite this, the company was awarded a gold standard rating from the UN’s Climate Neutral Now programme in his first submissions. Additionally, Pethick shares his experiences outside of his own organisation in a bid to engage the wider industry.

He was a speaker at greenloop 22, blooloop’s sustainability in visitor attractions conference. Attendees heard about the climate action being taken by the operators leading the way. Pethick explained that when a company is looking to become carbon neutral and measuring its carbon footprint, it should start with reducing, measuring, designing and engineering considerately, reusing and then finishing with offsetting.

“This is where everything is moving,” he said. “Everything is going to become more sustainable. Everyone is going to want to know what the carbon footprint of your work is, so the sooner you start to embrace that and get on that escalator of sustainable knowledge, the better. It takes a long time, so you just have to get on and do it. Importantly, you have to understand that it’s not all going to be easy and there will be mistakes and missteps along the way. But doing something is better than doing nothing at all”.

Pethick has gone beyond the UN’s offsetting requirements, valuing carbon tonnage at the higher rate prescribed by the Arts Council. He spent the additional amount supporting Solar Aid, for which Nomad does voluntary work.

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