An event’s carbon footprint and its economic return come from the same journeys, rooms, and venues.
Living Lab connects venue utility accounts, travel bookings, ticketing, and supplier invoices the same way it connects economic signals, and applies the same source-and-assumption discipline to the emissions result, so a carbon claim and a public-value claim can be defended in the same room. Reference data is published by the UNFCCC.
Reports emissions and sustainability performance for a period that has already ended: an event, a reporting year, a funding cycle. Whether the reduction or offset programme delivered against a counterfactual. Signal137 produces the evidence a GHG Protocol or ISO 20121 process requires, without claiming certification against it.
The forward question, how climate exposure changes future demand, physical and transition risk across a hold or a calendar, belongs to climate and transition risk, built on Demand137.
| Product | Your question | You get | What it changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal137 | Whether to publish a specific emissions figure in a report or a bid | A defined boundary, each component labelled measured, modelled, or estimated | A figure that survives a direct question about how it was built |
| Signal137 | Where should the reporting boundary sit? | An explicit scope statement: venue only, full lifecycle, or visitor travel included | The boundary matches the claim being made |
| Signal137 | Is the offset or reduction programme delivering what it claims? | A before-and-after comparison against a stated counterfactual | A verifiable change reported, not an assumed one |
| Signal137 | How do we meet a funder's or host's disclosure condition? | A comparable, traceable format the funder can check line by line | Funding and hosting eligibility kept, on a claim that holds up |
| Signal137 | Does this cover visitor travel, or only the venue? | Visitor travel modelled from ticket data and mode share, with a stated range | The largest category is in, and its uncertainty is visible |
| Signal137 | Some of our data is only an estimate. What then? | Reported as an estimate, with the benchmark or proxy stated | An estimate is never dressed as a measurement |
| Signal137 | What if the measured figure is worse than expected? | Reported as measured | A figure published whether or not it is favourable |
| Signal137 | Does this replace our GHG Protocol or ISO 20121 process? | No. It produces the evidence and assumption trail those frameworks require | Alignment, not certification, and stated as such |
| Signal137 | Can we defend the carbon claim and the economic claim together? | Both built on one evidence structure | One method for both claims |
| Both | Who holds this, and where? | Model, data, and a trained team inside your jurisdiction | The capability survives the change of sustainability lead or auditor |
None of the three states what it includes, what period it covers, or whether the money stayed. A footprint figure is only useful when it carries its own definitions, and it is only defensible when it is kept separate from impact.
A major event is a rallying point for civic pride, and just as easily a rallying point for protest. The difference is usually whether residents can see what the event does for their street, in terms they recognise, before the road closures start.
During the 2026 World Cup, host-city hotel rates rose 13% on average. Miami rose 30.3%. New York fell 4.5%. The average was true and useless: it would have told all 16 cities the same thing, and been wrong for most of them.
We turn messy event and tourism data into decisions that help communities grow. Bring curiosity and rigour. We will hand you questions nobody has answered yet.
