Glastonbury Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis has been named in the Time 100 Climate list for 2024, which highlights people making progress in fighting climate change through their work.
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The official Glastonbury X (formerly Twitter) account shared the news earlier today (November 12) along with a link to the full list, which sees Eavis sit alongside figures including Prince Harry, Bill Gates and the King of Bhutan.
Time wrote: “To identify this year’s changemakers, TIME’s editors spent months vetting names from across the economy. We valued measurable, scalable achievements over commitments and announcements. We favored more recent action.
“The result is our second annual TIME100 Climate list which represents multitudes of individuals making significant progress in influencing the business of climate change.”
Emily Eavis has been included in the 2024 TIME100 Climate list, which celebrates individuals making significant progress in fighting climate change through their work #TIME100Climate
See the full list at https://t.co/6AVJvP48zS now. pic.twitter.com/q0LROSu1xV
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) November 12, 2024
Time spoke to Eavis about Glastonbury’s efforts to be eco-friendly and the importance of it, and she said: “I really do believe that progress—the power of change—lies in our hands. The single most important thing we can do at this time, aside from living our lives with integrity and with kindness, is to make our voices heard. Elections mark important crossroads for change. Here in the UK, ahead of our election in July, we at Glastonbury actively supported campaigns to encourage voter registration and inspire people to get out and make their voices heard. It has never been more important that we engage our democratic right and vote wisely, with climate in mind.”
Discussing the short-term future of climate activism, she added: “Hope is the cornerstone of climate activism. Without the belief that we can make a difference and steer the course away from disaster, it’ll be difficult to lead change. As climate activists, we need to inspire people with optimism by keeping our goals accessible and inclusive, because we still have a chance to create a meaningful impact and correct the mistakes of the past in a way which supports and empowers people.”
It’s not the first time Eavis and Glastonbury have been recognised for their efforts, however. In 2020, the festival’s 50th year, Eavis was crowned Godlike Genius at the NME Awards. Receiving the award from Billy Bragg and Taylor Swift, she said: “Thank you so much! Thanks NME. I watched my dad pick this up when I was 16, and I was like ‘I would never do it.’ But now, I’m just in so deep.
“Thanks to NME, and thanks to my dad for his support, my husband Nick and the 25 people on our table who run Glastonbury. This is about the whole team and all the amazing people that come each year. It stuns me every year, and in 2019 when we got rid of plastic, it was a huge leap forward. I looked around and thought ‘This is fucking incredible’. “This is for all the female artists as well.”
This year, Glastonbury urged festivalgoers to “leave no trace” and “only bring sturdy camping equipment,” and Eavis reported after the festival that attendees took 99 per cent of tents home with them.
Glastonbury’s charity partners Greenpeace promised to “change hearts and minds” and encourage “protest, activism and voting” this year, too, ahead of the UK’s General Election on July 4. Last year, the festival was powered entirely by renewable energy for the first time, and in 2019, it banned single-use plastic bottles.
The first batch of Glastonbury 2025 tickets go on sale this week, with coach and ticket packages the first to become up for grabs at 6pm on Thursday, November 14. Standard tickets follow at 6pm on Sunday, November 17 and will be sold exclusively here. This year, a queuing system will be used to buy tickets for the first time.
The coach and ticket packages sold out in 25 minutes for Glastonbury 2024, with standard tickets selling out in just under an hour. If you don’t manage to get tickets this time around, re-sale tickets usually become available in the spring once the lineup is revealed.
Among those rumoured to headline next year’s festival include Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender, The Rolling Stones, Green Day, AC/DC, Harry Styles, Raye and Oasis.