Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Business Design Centre (BDC) has released the company’s roadmap to Net-Zero, explaining how it intends to achieve this ambitious target by 2030 – 20 years ahead of the internationally recognised target of 2050 for businesses. The BDC has made a 66.7%

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The launch, taking place on Decarbonisation Day, will be held in the Room Lotus, in Area B of the COP27 Venue at Sharm El Sheikh, starting at 1000 local time in Egypt. Launched in August 2021, the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative is the events industry’s global campaign to achieve net zero carbon by 2050.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The number of supporting organisations has risen from 21 in September 2021 to 409 in September this year. Twenty-four supporting partners, including exhibition and event organisers, service providers, associations, convention bureaux and venues, are now financial contributors.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Action Area 1 is a core focus for Peter Duthie, CEO at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow – host venue for COP26: “Central to achieving our net zero goal is the development of an ambitious energy strategy which will transition the campus to renewable energy. Roadmap marks next stage in sustainability journey.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hallé St Peter’s, the historic rehearsal venue and community centre for the world-famous orchestra, has scooped a top architecture award for sustainability, thanks to its partnership with Siemens. Martin Glynn, Venues Director for the Hallé, explained: “The technology has enabled the building to keep running. The Oglesby Centre, a £4.3M

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following on from the launch in 2021, Net Zero Carbon Events published a Roadmap as a helpful resource at Cop27 in November 2022. Our 2023 ESG report gives further evidence of our commitment to Net Zero and Signing this Pledge is clear indication of our determination to continue to move forward to these goals.”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

Pre-Covid, Dreamforce attracted more than 170,000 people and included a major headliner concert, but it was a smaller, hybrid affair in 2021). Planet-friendly Venues. California companies and venues are stepping up to simplify the efforts to deliver to all audiences. 24th annual Independent Games Festival Awards.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Action Area 1 is a core focus for Peter Duthie, CEO at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow – host venue for COP26: “Central to achieving our net zero goal is the development of an ambitious energy strategy which will transition the campus to renewable energy. Bob Priest-Heck, Freeman. Peter Duthie, SEC.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

Pre-Covid, Dreamforce attracted more than 170,000 people and included a major headliner concert, but it was a smaller, hybrid affair in 2021). Planet-friendly Venues. California companies and venues are stepping up to simplify the efforts to deliver to all audiences. 24th annual Independent Games Festival Awards.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The past twelve months have marked an incredible year for the SEC, following the staging of COP26 in November 2021 and the venue’s commitment to Net Zero by 2030, and I’m looking forward to the next twelve months and beyond.”.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“There was a lot of complex analysis that went into this, but you’re talking about a 20- to 25-percent reduction in emissions just by changing the location, just by changing the venue,” Huber said. As the host of COP26 in November 2021 in Glasgow, SEC hired a waste and sustainability manager, Warden said.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The conference, originally scheduled for last November in Glasgow, was canceled because of the pandemic — in May, the decision was made to hold the conference in person in 2021 as originally planned in Glasgow. Francis McKee photo). Bridging the Digital Divide.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BH Live, the registered charity, which operates leisure and event venues across Dorset, Hampshire and London, has appointed Paul Collins as its Chair. We are committed to being net zero carbon by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2035. Martin was a BH Live board member for +12 years and held the position of Chair during 2021/22.

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Event Industry News

MAY 28, 2021

On 25 th January, EY announced its ambition to be carbon negative in 2021, setting targets to significantly reduce its absolute emissions, and removing and offsetting more carbon than it emits. (1). The past 14 months of pandemic-enforced lockdowns have caused particular turmoil and uncertainty in the events and hospitality sectors.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2019

The Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi has announced its goal to attract three million business visitors by 2021. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, the GCC will attract 195 million visitors per year by 2030 – this is above the global average for any region. Huge success is forecast.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

We measured their carbon footprint with Glenn, the 2021 program retrospectively, and gave recommendations for reduction. That’s the first time we’ve done it for an actual exhibitor,” Hansen said, “not the organizer, nor the venue.” Total guest-room nights and the venue space for the group get measured via a few resources.

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The MICE

MARCH 1, 2022

The international community of bedload specialists met in Interlaken in late 2021 to address current and future issues regarding the implementation of restoration measures in Switzerland. In 2011, the Swiss Water Act was updated and under the new revision, all hydropower operators are obligated to refurbish their installations until 2030.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The IOC has committed to reducing its direct and indirect emissions by 50 percent by 2030, when all Olympic Games must also commit to reducing carbon emissions and compensate for more than 100 percent of their residual emissions. For Paris 2024, venues have been cherrypicked for their proximity to public transport — even beyond Paris.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The number of supporting organisations has risen from 21 in September 2021 to 409 in September this year. Twenty-four supporting partners, including exhibition and event organisers, service providers, associations, convention bureaux and venues, are now financial contributors.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

For the 2021 edition, the ShipCon organisers decided to spread the two-day event into a two-week online conference, incorporating gaming elements. For example, the question this time will be, ‘What would your event of the future look like using gamification in 2030?’ One of the tools used was ‘The Sopranos’.

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