ExCeL
London is to offset all travel emissions generated by
visitors attending The Meeting Show as part of its commitment to sustainability and London Climate Action Week.
Hosted by Northstar Meetings Group from 29 – 30 June, The Meetings Show marks its
landmark 10th edition this year with approximately 5,000 delegates in attendance and keynote
speakers including the likes of Sebastian Coe.
During
the two-day event, ExCeL is using an independent, third-party organisation to
interview around 10 per cent of attendees to ascertain their primary mode of transport
when travelling to and from the event. Then, using official government carbon
conversion factors, the team will then estimate total visitor emissions and the
carbon impact generated. This figure will then be offset using Gold Standard
carbon credits, a globally recognised, traceable programme supporting Verified Emission Reduction projects.
Natalie
Sykes, ExCeL’s sustainability manager who led the project, said: “Having
recently signed the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge and been awarded the
Sustainability Triple Crown for reducing our carbon footprint, our ESG
Programme is an area we are very proud of here at ExCeL. With this week being
London Climate Action Week, and with ExCeL hosting the flagship event Reset Connect, we wanted to do something impactful for The Meetings Show, especially
with sustainability so high on the events industry’s agenda right now.”
She
added: “With our electricity being 100 per cent renewable and ExCeL having a zero
waste-to-landfill policy, we hope this year’s Meetings Show has been the
greenest yet and the start of many more initiatives ExCeL has planned over the
coming years.”
In
addition, last month the ExCeL team offset its travel emissions from attending
IMEX Frankfurt by investing in a school cookstoves project in Uganda, again via
the Gold Standard carbon credits scheme.
For
more information on ExCeL’s sustainability policy visit here. For further
details on The Meetings Show click here
