Key Sustainability Issues 4: Travel

Over the next few weeks we are going to investigate a series of key issues that surround event sustainability.

This
week we are investigating travel

Why is it an issue?  Inevitably we need to travel to get to any event, our products and services need to travel to get to our venue of choice and our delegates will need to travel to get to the event.

Why

is
it important to address?  Travelling involves producing carbon emissions and in order to be more sustainable we need to reduce our carbon emissions where possible. 

What
can
you do for your events? Can you encourage your delegates to come to your event by public transport – put this at the top of the options rather than driving links.  Can you put on a bus to get people to your venue – can this be a bus which runs on alternative fuels?  Can you record the mileage of your delegates and the products you buy to benchmark and try and reduce for your next event?  You can go one step further and use a tool such as www.eventsustainability.com to convert your mileage into a carbon emissions weight.

Next week we will look at the issue of carbon emissions in more detail.

To learn more about issues like this one and how to implement BS8901, why not attend one of our workshops?