At COP26 in November 2021, world leaders met to present how their countries will achieve the 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 to deliver on the Paris Agreement.
And so the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge was launched setting out the events industry’s commitment to play its role in addressing climate change.
The Net Zero Carbon Events initiative aims to bring together a wide range of industry stakeholders to:
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Our cross association sustainability group provides AEV, AEO and ESSA members with focus on the important issues around sustainability and the ability to work together in reducing the event industry’s impact on the environment.
The Net Zero Roadmap for Events was launched at COP 27. It creates a common framework for all event industry stakeholders to meet the net zero goal providing a pathway for individual organisations as well as industry-wide action areas.
The action areas have been identified where collaborative effort is needed along with a framework for measuring and evaluating progress.
"Sustainability in practice: a pathway for venues" is a user-friendly framework to transition your venue to a Net Zero by 2050 future.
You can download it now.
It is brought to you by events industry body isla, sponsored by VisitBritain and supported by AEV, mia and beam. We hope you find it useful and adoptable.
Olympia London offered to fund The MICE Machine who held two workshops for the group at Informa PLC London. The MICE Machine assisted Olympia London form their “Grand Plan” sustainability strategy. They have facilitated a complete review of the scope of Olympia London’s sustainability efforts, including a thorough, practical assessment of the venue’s achievements and opportunities for improvement, strategy workshops for a group of champions drawn from each department in the organisation and the development of objectives and actions for them to achieve.
How will they work?
The aim is for AEO, AEV and ESSA Association members to work towards a consistent base level of sustainability performance. The sector specific commitments enable all parties to have a clear idea of what they should be looking at and allow for tracking progress against this guidance.
This is not a proviso of membership; responses will not be reported publicly. It is recognised that sustainability planning is for some in its infancy and these can guide our members direct focus and evolve their environmental responsibility considerations in line with industry peers.
Photo: cross association sustainability working group during MICE Machine training sessions – 2019
This resource is open to AEV, AEO and ESSA members only (in each association's member zone).
If you're a non-member venue and you would like to access this resource and the wealth of other resources and information that we offer, please contact us to discuss membership opportunities.
The NEC study is on combating wastage.
Olympia London share the journey to achieving their Grand Plan, it's implementation and successes.
Our cross association sustainability working group compiled short and long-term objectives for commitments to help reduce the event industry’s impact on the environment.
Read the background to our road to net zero.
Follow our sustainability commitments to see how you fair.
Our commitments scorecard is available in your member zone.
See how members have used the commitments on their sustainability journey.
Stay current with terms and concepts with these key sustainability terms and acronyms.
Photo: cross association sustainability working group during MICE Machine training sessions – 2019
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