Sustainability

How to Make Subvention Programs Work Harder

A recent study shows that the current funding model to encourage group business falls short in significant areas beyond economics.

BY Kate Mulcrone November 18, 2025

How Convening Leaders 2026 Is Embracing Sustainability

Thanks to a combination of careful planning and strategic partnerships, PCMA’s annual meeting keeps raising its own standards for event sustainability.

BY Kate Mulcrone November 10, 2025

How AI Can Help Humans Get Recycling Right

Oscar Sort, an AI-powered waste-sorting assistant, is improving recycling rates by reducing confusion — and errors — at the bins.

BY Barbara Palmer October 27, 2025

Have We Moved the Sustainability Bar?

According to AmEx Global Business Travel’s 2026 Global Meetings & Events Forecast, planners recognize that their attendees expect their events to be sustainable. But how are they delivering on that expectation?

BY Michelle Russell October 23, 2025

5 Metrics to Focus on for Greener Meetings

The American Chemical Society’s ambitious event sustainability initiatives include reducing energy as well as food and plastic waste.

BY Kate Mulcrone October 21, 2025

Lifting All Boats

The first-ever Turning the Tide regenerative tourism summit brought together a mix of professionals from destination marketing organizations and municipalities along the Texas Gulf Coast to collaborate — even if they compete for the same business — on how to make sustainability the standard destination-wide.

BY Michelle Russell September 25, 2025

3 Ways This Global Festival for Professionals Embraces Sustainability

The natural environment is a key feature of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival experience — much of the event takes place outdoors. In keeping with that, the environmental impact of convening thousands of people in one place is top of mind for the organizers.

BY Michelle Russell September 25, 2025

Planning for Extreme Weather

A multi-disciplinary research report led by event sustainability expert Shawna McKinley offers a calculus of the risks posed to events by extreme weather — and the high cost of not planning for them.

BY Barbara Palmer August 25, 2025

Environmental Justice as Theater

Next month, Climate Week NYC is making a theater production part of participants’ learning experience. Here’s why.

BY Michelle Russell August 25, 2025

3 Smart Ways to Reduce Food Waste and Cut Carbon Emissions

From “Meatless Mondays” to “ganging” menus, easy ways to cut the carbon emissions of F&B at events from international science society planner Bel Hanson.

BY Barbara Palmer July 28, 2025

What’s Next for Convene 4 Climate

Tanya Popeau, PCMA’s head of global sustainability, shares how the Convene 4 Climate 2025 conference will build on the work of the first gathering.

BY Michelle Russell July 25, 2025

Sustainability Conversation Starters for Event Strategists

Marina Bay Sands’ executive director of sustainability on how PCMA APAC’s recent conference hosted at the Singapore venue showcased the potential for events to move the needle.

BY Michelle Russell July 24, 2025

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