Sustainable Events News

Sustainable events are now a pillar of event planning. CN investigates some cutting-edge green initiatives

Vision2025 previewed the January launch of the second edition Show Must Go On Report, supported with a new online sustainability knowledge hub for the outdoor event sector, at the UK Festival Awards, 6th December 2019.

The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is developing a new International Standard for major events

The ISO provides advice and best practice in a huge number of fields and industries worldwide. ISO 20121 - Event sustainability management systems - is already the international standard for venues and organisers who want their events to be green-certified.

Now the ISO is developing ISO 22379, Security and resilience – Guidelines for hosting and organising large citywide events. It aims to provide guidelines and expertise on how to manage risks, public safety and service continuity during a wide-scale event.

The new standard will bring together the knowledge of experts involved in hosting major events such as the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Day one of IMEX Frankfurt began with a talk on the topic of food waste, from Laure Berment of Too Good To Go (pictured left) and Majbritt Sandberg (pictured right) of Red Lab Experience.

Too Good To Go is an app tackling the issue of food waste, by connecting restaurants, shops, cafes and event venues which have surplus food, with customers willing to buy it at a reduced price in order to prevent it being thrown away.

In an effort to take action to climate emergency and tackle waste in South America, A Greener Festival (AGF - sustainability specialists for the live industry), Buenas Noches Producciones (leading electronic music producers in South America), Bye Bye Plastic (By DJ BLOND:ISH) and Voluntad Verde

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Manchester Central is donating surplus food to Manchester’s first waste food catering project.  

The venue has been working with Open Kitchen MCR to donate unused food, which is then transformed into catering for events, meetings and special occasions.  

This is the second consecutive year Camden Council has donated festival food to OzHarvest.

Formula 1 is aiming to have a net zero carbon footprint by 2030, as well as fully sustainable events by 2025. The sport’s environmental impact has been a hot topic in F1 over recent weeks following social media posts from Lewis Hamilton ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix.

Glasgow has ranked inside the top five cities for commitment to sustainable business tourism

Sport can be a megaphone to the world about raising awareness on Sustainability. This is exactly what was expertly done at the recent event in Helsinki, which aims to be the most sustainable equestrian event in the world.

Well, they are not far from it, as the event’s complete power needs (heat, electricity, etc.) are provided by the equine athletes competing there. 100 tonnes of manure from 230 horses is converted to energy by their local sponsor, an energy company. This is as good a renewable energy example in sport as can be. 

In this new video we find out what has been done so far on-site to achieve this goal - including the transformation of 100 tonnes of manure from 230 horses into energy that powers the event! While Robert Whitaker was the winner in the ring, the show organisers are proving successful in their targets behind the scenes.

"The sponsors, the volunteers and the fans are all involved," Tom says.

Watch the full video here...

Ok, so you know about the potential health implications of
BPA in plastic and you do your best to avoid it. But what about PVC in plastics and other products?

Plastic drinking straws. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

PVC—polyvinyl chloride, or vinyl—is found in a range of products, fro

In collaboration with UNFCCC Global Climate Action and International Olympic Committee, Sport Positive Summit 2020 is the global meeting place for sports organisations effecting, or looking to effect, positive environmental impacts - taking place 17-18 March 2020 at Wembley Stadium connected by EE, in London.

The Summit convenes sports and environment stakeholders to support the advance towards a low carbon future for sports and the wider engagement of sports fans around sustainable development and climate change. It is an annual meeting place for the UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action Framework signatories, as well as the wider sports community who are pursuing or enabling positive impacts through sustainability efforts.

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Bins were trialled at British Summer Time, a UK festival, aiming to show potential how difficult to recycle plastics could be collected at large-scale events.

President of Mido, Giovanni Vitaloni (pictured), tells OT how the Italian trade show will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020

By Toby Heelis, CEO, Eventopedia With the rise of the climate protection movement, the event industry is forced to take a look at certain practices and become more sustainable. Not only is climate change an urgent global issue, but also increased consumer awareness means that events just have t

Just under a third of event professionals admit to throwing away at least 15% of the food they commission at events, according to a new survey

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