MICE activity can have a dire environmental impact if left unchecked.
From the amount of travel and logistics entailed in bringing together an event to the volumes of waste that can be generated from catering and branding, the industry has a responsibility to cut emissions.
Tourism Update’s sister publication, Travel News, attended the November 21 Event Greening Forum’s (EGF) interactive workshop entitled ‘Bridging the divide from here to a Net Zero Carbon Events future’. This was aligned with the global goal of nett-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the Joint Meetings Industry Council’s (JMIC) Net Zero Carbon Events (NZCE) initiative, which the EGF has adopted.
In 2021, the NZCE Pledge was launched alongside COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. More than 100 signatories committed to addressing climate change by measuring and reporting on Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions every two years. Today, the NZCE Pledge has more than 400 signatories according to its