CONCEPTS:
Sustainable Development Principles
- Understand the principles of sustainable development including inclusivity, transparency, stewardship and integrity.
- Apply the principles of sustainable development to event planning and delivery.
Environmental Sustainability
- Understand environmental sustainability concepts within the context of event production including: Resource utilization; Resource conservation; Materials choice; Releases to Land Air or Water; Emissions Reduction
Economic Sustainability
- Understand economic sustainability within the context of event production including: Local Economy; Direct Economic Impacts; Indirect Economic Impacts; Legacy; Innovation
Social Sustainability
- Understand social sustainability concepts within the context of event production including: Fair trade and profit sharing; Equity; Role of Labour Standards; Health and Safety; Social Justice; Local Community; Cultural; Heritage and Religious Sensitivity
OPERATIONS:
Waste
- Understand and identify waste issues.
- Waste impacts of procurement choices
- Waste prevention techniques.
- Waste segregation techniques.
- Event attendee engagement in waste initiatives
- At event waste initiatives
- Waste processing technologies.
- Waste auditing techniques
- Waste measurement and reporting
- Climate impact of waste
Energy
- Understand and identify energy issues
- Energy conservation techniques and initiatives
- Renewable energy supply
- Energy supply innovation
- Energy measurement and reporting
- GHG emissions factors of energy
Transport
- Understand and identify transport issues
- Reduce production transport impacts
- Reduce attendee travel impacts
- Sustainable transport options
- Encourage sustainable transport uptake by attendees
- Transport measurement and reporting
Water
- Understand and identify water issues
- Water conservation techniques
- Water measurement and reporting
Biodiversity and Nature Preservation
- Impacts that may occur onsite due to event activities.
- Indirect impacts which may occur away from the event site due to event activities.
- Issues that may occur during manufacture, use and disposal of product and materials.
Community and Society
- Impacts which may positively or negatively effect local communities
- Practices to ensure an inclusive event
- Issues regarding first nation, traditional owners, religious, cultural or heritage concerns.
PLANNING:
Management System
- Create procedures, processes and documentation for the implementation of a management system for event sustainability.
- Undertake an internal audit of management system
Policy
- Create an Event Sustainability Management Policy
Stakeholders
- Identify stakeholders/interested parties.
- Establish the needs and expectations of stakeholders/interested parties.
Communication & Engagement
- Develop techniques to engage stakeholders in event sustainability
- Create effective ways to communicate event sustainability objectives, messages and actions
- Use communications and demonstration to convey sustainability concepts
Issues
- Establish processes to identify event sustainability issues
- Establish criteria evaluate significance and relevance of sustainability issues.
- Establish criteria to prioritise issues management
Legal and Regulatory Requirements
- Identify relevant legal or other regulations, in the geographic area the that the event is undertaken in.
- Ensure procedures and processes are in place to adhere to relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
- Awareness of and considerations for implementing best practice in the event industry internationally where legal or other regulatory requirements are not in place locally.
Destination, Venue, Accommodation
- Assess destination’s sustainability credentials and potential for supporting sustainable event production
- Assess venue sustainability credentials
- Assess accommodation sustainability credentials
- Create event-specific sustainability initiatives at venue and accommodation
SUPPLY CHAIN:
Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Establish criteria to evaluate significance and relevance of sustainable sourcing issues.
- Create information for supplier tender or other documentation about sustainability requirements.
- Make sustainable sourcing assessments
- Create Sustainable Sourcing Policy
OUTCOMES:
Measurement and Reporting
- Setting performance objectives and targets
- Setting performance indicators
- Monitoring, measurement, analysis and reporting of performance
Legacy and Innovation
- Understand role of legacy in event planning, policy and outcomes.
- Role of events to encourage innovation in supply chain and production solutions, and the economic legacy of such.