Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

The events and conference venue operates with sustainability at its core and is committed to achieving Net Zero carbon status by 2030. Church House also requires its service providers to signal the same commitment to sustainability.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Event organisers believe that the number of dietary requirements amongst delegations will grow from 20%, in 2020, to 40% by 2030, according to research by Lime Venue Portfolio. The world has changed and by 2030 we believe that the majority of people at an event will want a different menu.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Airlines are ramping up their carbon-reducing measures—but ever so slightly—while more attendees face internal carbon budgets and taxes to come to events. According to an article from CNN , the flight is the latest in a series of tests involving the extensive use of sustainable jet fuel. What can planners do? Roundtrip, that’s 2.5

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. As a producer of events, continuing our work against Action Area 2 will be our focus — to redesign events to be sustainable and waste free.

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Eventsforce

JUNE 22, 2023

As we move ever closer to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the awareness of sustainability has never been more pronounced. The event industry, of course, is no exception to this, with both organisers and attendees striving to reduce their carbon footprints and to adapt more sustainable habits and practices.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 4, 2022

A key part of the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) since January 2009, Dawn Lauder has been head of international conferences at the venue for nearly six years. To keep up to date with all the news, subscribe for free here. If you would like to take part in a podcast, then please complete our submission form.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to guide industry. Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. Net Zero Carbon Events launched in 2021 prior to unveiling its Pledge at COP26 in Glasgow.

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Event Industry News

MAY 27, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus has pledged to plant a tree for every meeting the company hosts at IMEX next week. The venue, which recently announced its ambition to achieve net zero by 2030, will also be sharing other sustainable initiatives taking place at the SEC since it hosted the globally recognized COP26 conference last year.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

As an award-winning leading UK academic venue, Keele University Events & Conferencing have just been awarded a ‘Green Meetings Gold Accreditation.’ Preparing for the assessment, the team reviewed all aspects of the campus commitment to sustainability.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 26, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus will plant a tree for every person who meets with its delegation at IMEX Frankfurt. The Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow has pledged to plant a tree for every person its team meets with during IMEX Frankfurt. A volunteer plants Scots pine seedlings. Curt Wagner is digital editor at Convene.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The event industry’s Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge requires signatories to commit to targets aligned with the Paris Climate Accord, which includes achieving a 50-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 on the way to net zero emissions by 2050. 31 through Nov. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland. 31 through Nov.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 23, 2022

The UK’s largest sustainability ecosystem and green investment event, Reset Connect London , has pledged to go net-zero by 2030 and signed up to the Net Zero Carbon Events [NZCE] pledge. We have been very careful to ensure low or no carbon decision making in all areas of the event’s organisation.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 1, 2022

Cvent (Nasdaq: CVT), a market-leading meetings, events, travel and hospitality technology provider, is one of several key industry leaders supporting and helping fund the beta version of the sustainability web app: SAM , which was recently launched by In-House Corporate Events (ICE).

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Central Hall Westminster, part of Central Hall Venues group, played host to The Superpowers of Free School Meals conference, a joint initiative to showcase the benefits of England’s Free School Meals policy, on Tuesday 8th November. The campaign is run in partnership with the Independent and in association with the Evening Standard.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Breaking down the company’s recent sustainability strategy International exhibition and convention center ExCel London is a carbon-neutral venue and an advocate for the path towards green meetings. soon to debut over 25,000 more—and hosting around 400 events and 4 million visitors per year, it is the largest event venue in London.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Accor Survey: “Meeting Expectations: The Future of Meetings & Events” World-leading hospitality group Accor operates a diverse hospitality group of over 40 hotel brands, from luxury to economy. billion by 2030.” Respondents also confirm the importance of trade shows, exhibitions and conferences.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

emissions-reduction conference, the Joint Meetings Industry Council has developed goals and strategies for drastically reducing carbon from events in the coming years. Net zero means a level balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced by events and the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere in return. “In

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Data Science for the SDGs” was the theme of the 2019 Data for Good Exchange hosted by Bloomberg in New York City, which looked at how data science projects can help make progress toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Bloomberg).

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Central Hall Westminster, part of Central Hall Venues group, played host to The Superpowers of Free School Meals conference, a joint initiative to showcase the benefits of England’s Free School Meals policy, on Tuesday 8th November. The campaign is run in partnership with the Independent and in association with the Evening Standard.

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 14, 2020

A throw-away trend or something that will shape our events, how should we view flight shaming in the events industry? In December 2019 I travelled to Madrid to attend the Sustainable Innovation Summit, an official side event at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference. degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Under the title of The Rotterdam Experiment, the city of Rotterdam explores what the future of the event industry will look like. The corona crisis has had an enormous impact on the events industry. Work came to an abrupt halt, conferences and events were cancelled or postponed and creative online solutions were needed fast.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 18, 2022

First held in 1990, Ecocity World Summit is the pioneer global conference on sustainable cities. It was led by New London Architecture (NLA) in partnership with London & Partners, the Barbican Centre and professional conference organisers MCI. London has won a bid to host the biennial Ecocity World Summit in June 2023.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Decision to follow the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals is attracting like-minded events. The CVB has launched the Tourism for Good strategy with a goal to allow tourism to have a positive impact on sustainable development both locally and globally by 2030. By Vicky Koffa, Boardroom. On the Same Mission.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As 2024 fast approaches, we spoke to some of the business meetings and events industry’s leading figures to find out what they think the next 12 months will have in store for the sector. If we want to attract world-class business meetings and events, it’s essential that we market the UK as an accredited destination.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 1, 2022

The Net Zero Carbon Events initiative confirmed today that the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) will become its latest Gold Sponsor. The initiative aims to connect the events industry, globally, to the rapidly growing movement towards net zero by 2050 and is already seeing an influx of momentum from across the meetings and events community.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Wyboston Lakes Resort has signed the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge, joining more than 600 leading conference and events industry organisations worldwide since its launch at Cop26 in signing it or expressing their support for the campaign. In 2022 we published a four-year Green Energy Roadmap, with phase 1 completed this year.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

British caterer and restaurateur, Searcys, announces its partnership with event and conference venue, Church House Westminster , providing catering services across the venue in a seven-year contract. Part of The Corporation of Church House charity, first established in 1888, the event venue is a trading subsidiary for the corporation.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Huber, a professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at Purdue University, and director of Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future, told his fellow panelists and the audience that if the industry does not address air travel’s contribution to its carbon footprint, we will just “be working around the margins.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The need for change in travel and tourism The hospitality industry is continuing its efforts towards improving sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) with cross-sector discussions and in-person activities. The deadline for registration for the event is September 15 th.

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Event Industry News

MAY 16, 2022

Six months on from COP26, Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus once again welcomed COP president, The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, as he hosted an event with SEC chief executive Peter Duthie on Monday 16 May 2022. Driven by COP, we launched a Sustainable Food Strategy with a minimum of 80% of all ingredients used on campus sourced in Scotland.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 5, 2019

Event industry professionals across the globe are being urged to take part in a vital initiative this month: “Engaging the global event industry with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”. The event is the first UN Summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

IACC, the global association representing the top 1% of small to midsize conference and meeting venues, has announced a partnership with Sweden’s leading meetings expert, Svenska Möten. We also want to use the partnership as a platform to showcase Sweden as one of the most sustainable meeting destinations in the world.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 20, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus will continue its one meeting one tree promise at The Meetings Show next week with every business appointment, taking place on the venue’s stand, earning a tree planted in the Caledonian Forest. The news comes following a successful IMEX where nearly 80 trees are already committed.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

AIM Group International, a company specialised in conferences, events and communication with more than 60 years experience, is proud to announce that it has signed the “Net Zero Carbon Events” pledge, a joint commitment across the events and meetings industry to achieve the targets laid out in the Paris Climate Accord. “We

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

10 during a COP26 session where the event industry’s Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge was introduced. With the launch of the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge on Nov. 15, 120 events industry stakeholders, including PCMA, have signed the pledge. Kai Hattendorf, speaks Nov. Binit Bharadia/UK Government).

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