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The SEPC: Learn to be a Green Planner

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Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Throughout the program, participants use a digital workbook to customize a roadmap for their own sustainable event. So, what’s next? What is the SEPC?

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Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge Launches With Broad Industry Support

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With the launch of the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge on Nov. 10 during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, a wide-ranging network of global events industry players has united to fight climate change with the ultimate goal of eliminating the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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How UFI’s Kai Hattendorf Helped Launch the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge

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At the time, Hattendorf was chair of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC), an advocacy organization made up of major international trade associations affiliated with the business events industry. If the event industry wanted to have an agreement in place by the time COP26 was underway, he said, “we needed to get started.”.

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Making Bleisure, Sustainability, and Wellness Top of Mind

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Accor hosts the GME annually, bringing together leadership and representatives from its more than 40 hotel brands with meeting planners, journalists, and other industry professionals. But this year, he said, hotel performance data revealed that demand from travel for meetings and business is back in a big way.

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PRA Signs Pledge for Net Zero Carbon Events and Launches PRA Climate Change Fund Program

PRA

PRA, a leader in the Business Events Industry, is pleased to announce on this Earth Day that the company has signed the “Net Zero Carbon Event” pledge, a joint commitment across the global events and meetings industry to achieve the targets laid out in the Paris Climate Accord.

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AHC has signed an MOU with SEC to host the Asia Pacific Hydrogen 2023 Summit & Exhibition

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The global event, which convenes over 3,000 attendees to advance hydrogen’s role in the future energy mix, has also announced the confirmed support and participation from the Australia Trade and Investment Commission and the New South Wales (NSW) Government.

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A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Events — and the World

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Lopez attributed high attendance during an ongoing pandemic to the fact that participants were eager to meet again in person — even if they were physically distanced — and the critical importance of the climate treaty negotiations. There is a digital dialogue going on all of the time,” Hattendorf said, but “we meet when it matters.