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More Associations Are Sounding the Climate Alarm

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In April, the Glasgow Convention Bureau became the first DMO to join Tourism Declares Climate Emergency. One industry that both contributes to global warming and suffers from its negative effects is tourism. It can change the suppliers it works with and how attendees travel to it. Nine other bureaus have signed on since then.

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

Convene by PCMA

Within weeks, he said, 100 different entities were working together to hammer out what ultimately became the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge , organizational commitments to reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, as a pathway to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

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The devastating impact of travel on the environment and local communities is enormous. Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., What is sustainable travel? Green travel is based on several main principles.

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

The MICE Blog

The next big step was to make sure that delegates are able to travel to the Netherlands and that we can have a show with spectators. 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.

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