During the panel debates at the European Sustainable Events Conference panelists shared their experience. David Stubbs, the Head of Sustainability of London 2012, was not able to attend the conference due to the Paralympics we therefore asked him a couple [...]
19 June 2012. The Danish Foreign Ministry, responsible for the organization of the 2012 European Union Presidency, today announced the compliance of their event management system against the new ISO 20121 standard for sustainable event management. Externally verified by the [...]
In the first half of 2012, Denmark has the Presidency of the EU. The Danish government has a strong focus on holding the events as sustainable as possible and therefore the Foreign Ministry has selected SAS as a partner. Being [...]
Hotel Hesselet: Hotel Hesselet and Dong Energy, DONG Energy is one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, have signed a climate partner agreement committing Hotel Hesselet to reduce their C02 emissions. This is done through investments in green [...]
Event organizers around the world now have a new tool that can help them to report on economic, environmental and social sustainability issues. New guidelines have been developed by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and a group of volunteers (including me) [...]
Green Keys goal is to become the tourism industry’s strongest label on numbers and demands. In Denmark, Green Key has been awarded to 170 businesses, while worldwide there are more than 1500 Green Key businesses in 25 countries. In Denmark the [...]
Sustainable Event Management (SEM) is the process of designing and organising an event following sustainable development principles in order to achieve strategic goals which serve the economic, environmental and social interests of organisers, delegates and host communities. Sustainable events bring [...]
Denmark is renowned for its leading work in sustainable events and meetings. By aiming to certify the sustainability of Denmark’s EU Presidency in 2012, the country hopes to demonstrate that it is possible to have growth and be sustainable at [...]
More than half of the world´s population lives in cities. This urban population is responsible for of 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions. With this in mind the future of cities and the future of the meetings industry cannot be [...]
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