Eventia One Future Initiative
The initiative is an events industry programme designed to support increased carbon reporting, carbon management and emissions mitigation and recognises the valuable contribution to emissions reduction and climate change mitigation that can be achieved by Eventia members, through best practice in carbon management and sustainability. As an Eventia member, WorldEvents are committed to the reduction of carbon emissions from our core services and the One Future initiative has been designed to facilitate our clients’ participation in this important industry initiative, to combat the carbon emissions that are a key feature of the climate change challenge. WorldEvents clients will receive lower carbon event management and have the ability to make a voluntary 1% contribution of their total spend on any event, to a UK-based carbon offset programme. 1% has been selected as it most closely corresponds to the current market cost of carbon credits in relation to events activity. The Eventia carbon partner is The Carbon Consultancy who provide specialist carbon management services and deliver UK carbon offset products based upon forestry and education. The Carbon Consultancy will support the Eventia membership and its clients to reduce and offset their emissions, through corporate and staff programmes, education and training support. The 1% client contribution will be used to plant new trees to store carbon and educate primary school children about renewable energy. This activity will be in addition to carbon reduction activity our own company is taking, including office wide recycling and use of recycled paper and goods, reduction in waste power usage and business travel and our ‘Triple Impact’ service offering to clients |
We are also an early adopter of the Eventia – One Future initiative, launched at the Eventia Summer Conference on 1st July, 2007.