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Sustainability
What Does It Take for the Events Industry to Be Sustainable?
A group of participants at the inaugural Convene 4 Climate brainstormed actionable tactics the business events industry needs to take so that we can accelerate the transition to a sustainable future.
How Climate Change is Changing Travel
A new study reporting on consumer travel trends holds lessons for business event organizers.
Room Set: Volvo Cars’ Woodland Wonderland
For the debut of Volvo’s new line of electric SUVs — and a signature scent — an ethereal, forest-inspired event felt only natural.
Trends Report 2025: An Eye on AI and the Planet
Event professionals’ proficiency using AI tools continues to grow. How about their green skills? Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Making Sustainable Events Easier
A new collaboration aims to get a web-based tool developed in cooperation with the United Nations into more organizers’ hands so they can more easily measure and report the climate impact of their events.
A Less Wasteful Approach to Experiential Events
How Analog Events works with corporate clients and celebrities to produce events with a big impact and small environmental footprint.
Harnessing the Energy of ‘Unlike Minds’
Energy Disruptors: UNITE is an immersive energy sector summit that aims to bring together diverse voices — along with an unexpected infusion of the arts — to spark change.
Business Events: We’re About Halfway There With Sustainability
According to the 14th Global Forecast from Amex GBT Meetings & Events, more than half of the 519 meeting professionals surveyed this year around the globe agree that sustainability is extremely or very important when it comes to planning their programs.
Event Organizers Double Down on Sustainability
According to our soon-to-be-published annual Meetings Market Survey, three out of five planners are including sustainability requirements in their RFPs, in addition to bolstering other efforts to check their events’ carbon footprint.
New Ways to Help Understand Extreme Heat Risks
Recent developments and tools that can help make it easier for meeting organizers to calculate and communicate the risks of extreme heat to meeting attendees.
‘Events Are the Thinking Machine of the World’
The first-ever Convene 4 Climate, held earlier this month in Barcelona, began with a TED-style talk by bonafide sustainability pioneer Paul Dickinson.
A New Way of Thinking
One key connection between DEI and sustainability is a shared commitment to challenging the status quo. While technology can help us solve some issues, it alone isn’t enough. We need to think and act in new ways.