Pollutec 2025: Key topics for industry, the environment, cities and regions
From October 7 to 10, 2025, the Lyon edition of Pollutec will be all about action and innovation. Health, decarbonization, bioeconomy and science will form the core of an ambitious programme that addresses the key environmental issues facing industry, regions and public decision-makers.
Pollutec has been the leading European trade fair for environmental and climate protection for 47 years. It is aimed at industry, cities and regions. Last year, an additional format was held in Paris, Porte de Versailles, for the first time. Nevertheless, Lyon remains an extremely attractive location every two years: 51,000 trade visitors and 2,000 exhibitors, including 200 start-ups, attended in 2023.
Springboard for eco-innovations
We are currently seeing ecological regression and dwindling commitment. Nevertheless, Pollutec continues to see itself as a springboard for eco-innovations. The trade fair is convinced that ecological change is a transnational issue and even sees it as a key to European sovereignty. Pollutec Exhibition Director Anne-Manuèle Hébert comments: "Pollutec 2025 is taking place in an unusual political context - unfortunately, the signs for an ecological turnaround are not green. The environment is not a political issue - ecology is a science. Pollutec's task is to present solutions for the ecological transformation of companies and regions that could make a more liveable future possible. In doing so, we always pursue a systemic approach - in our view the only one that is viable and sustainable in the long term. Science will therefore be a central theme of the upcoming edition of the trade fair. Because without reliable, verified data that has been validated by research experts, we will not make any progress. Pollutec is firmly committed to action and to change in industry and regions."
Diverse supporting program
With its 2025 edition in Lyon, Pollutec remains clearly focused on environmental issues. The focus remains on key topics relating to the transformation of companies.
The event will focus on four main topics, from which the supporting program of Pollutec 2025 will also be derived:
- Health: making the interdependence of environment and health visible and rethinking our lifestyles to create a healthier and more sustainable future.
- Decarbonization: exploring innovative solutions to effectively reduce the carbon footprint in industry and regions.
- Bioeconomy: moving away from fossil resources, strengthening local and natural resources and promoting a regenerative, nature-based economy.
- Science: Putting knowledge and research back at the center of environmental policy debates.
Once again this year, Pollutec is offering a wide-ranging program with an international scope - including panel discussions with leading minds in the industry and inspiring presentations: 400 specialist lectures, 16 discussion forums, the Pollutec Innovation Awards, business meetings, themed forums and villages, international delegations, etc.
Tickets are already available on the website: https://www.pollutec.com/fr-fr/registration.html
