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How to Build an Event Crystal Ball

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Planners don’t need a crystal ball to predict the future; they can combine their experience with strategic thinking to better prepare themselves for the future. “We We can combine our experience with strategic thinking to better prepare ourselves for the future. There are continually increasing regulations around sustainability.

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

Convene by PCMA

Warden was frustrated, Hattendorf recalled, as the SEC and Glasgow were moving into the final months of preparation to host COP26, the United Nations climate change conference where world leaders would gather to negotiate a plan to curb the effects of climate change.

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Carbon Offset in Aviation Explained: How ICAO CORSIA Helps Airlines Get Closer to Net Zero

AltexSoft Travel

IATA and its members committed to go net zero by 2050, which sounds great, but the problem is that the amount of air traffic is forecasted to be more than 3 times greater by that time. Later on, we’ll look at the regulating standards and talk about offsetting programs. Carbon offset regulations in aviation. They include.

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The future of events, venues and cities: learnings about how to future-proof against future crises

The MICE Blog

From a citywide safety perspective, the biggest challenge, according to Kim Joosten, Deputy head of security host city for the ESC was, ‘The constantly changing rules and regulations about COVID-19. We started with all the preparations in 2019, but when we started again in 2020 we didn’t know what we are going to have in May 2021.

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