Today we launched the CSMP and COP15 report. Here is the webinar presentation
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Sustainable events: Examples & Strategy
Posted on April 15, 2010 by Michael Luehrs
When it comes to sustainable events, most professional meetings planners understand the ’why’ but not the ’how’. An intrepid few invest time and effort to piece together different tactics in support of a more responsible event, but rarely does the approach have any strategic plan. Rarer still are the events which produce a thoughtful report [...]
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Sust-Daneable even in the snow
Posted on December 17, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
Copenhagen Bike Capital of the World As you probably have read, over 37% of the Danes use the bicycle daily. The mayor’s goal is 50% and you can see his plan here. You could understand these fantastic figures in a country with a warm climate – but look at the pictures. Its snowing – cold [...]
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Climate Summit for Mayors
Posted on December 17, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
Mayors from the world’s biggest cities discuss their responsibility in climate change matters. If our teams in MCI Copenhagen were not busy enough with cop15, for the last couple of days they have been providing PCO services for the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayor The City Hall of Copenhagen has seen its fair share of [...]
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COP15 Event Carbon Strategy
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
Continuing with their solid sustainable event management leadership, the Danish government has decided tooffset the entire measured emisions of the cop15 climate conference. The UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn has an initial estimate of the overall emissions from COP15 at 40,500 tonnes of CO2. However with the greater number of attendees the figure will be much [...]
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COP15 conforms to BS8901 certification standard!
Posted on December 14, 2009 by Michael Luehrs
Hot off the press! Danish Certification issued today their official report which confirms “The management system used to plan and deliver COP15 conforms to BS 8901:2009″. For sustainable event enthusiasts, this is much welcome news. For those of us with MCI Sustainability Services, who have worked behind the scenes to help document and guide the [...]
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Business leaders call for clear climate policies
Posted on May 24, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
I am at the World Business Summit on Climate Change and with a little help from Reuters would like to share some views from the UN secretary General Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the U.N. Secretary-General told [...]
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Copenhagen leads the way in large event greening
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Guy Bigwood
In preparation of the UN climate change conference cop15, the city of Copenhagen and the national meetings industry stakeholders are making a serious commitment to greening their wonderful city. In the attached presentation you can hear Jan-Christoph Napierski, head of Greening for COP15, talk about his challenges and priorities to increase the sustainability of the [...]
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