Meetings and event providers are helping clients enjoy the benefits of in-person meetings while achieving corporate sustainability goals. Meetings and event providers now offer sustainable venues and sustainably sourced food and beverage options. Equipped with tools to calculate their carbon emissions, event planners can evaluate their environmental footprint and act on recommendations to limit events’ impact.
Member of the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative, which commits organizations to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Offers eco-friendly meeting spaces at its convention center, equipped with solar panels, recycling programs, sustainable food and beverage options and the largest fleet of electric buses and vehicles in California.
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Member of the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative, which aims to construct an industry-wide roadmap toward net zero by 2050 and develop common methodologies to measure the industry’s direct, indirect and supply chain greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, Maritz collaborates closely with many industry organizations, including the Events Industry Council, and their sustainability initiatives.
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Offers meeting and event planners an option for Carbon Neutral Meetings that support sustainable development projects, reduce carbon emissions, and protect the environment.
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Greater Fort Lauderdale’s “meet green” allows meeting professionals to gently travel as they incorporate ecologically-friendly practices into their meeting, convention, or incentive.
When completed at the end of 2025, the expansion of the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center will offer more than 1 billion in new investments, including these green initiatives: Electric vehicle charging stations, solar panels covering the entire roof of the east convention center building, no single-use serving plastics, LEED certified buildings, filtered water bottle refilling stations, high-efficiency LED lighting and single-stream recycling compactors and bailors.
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Offers sustainable meeting spaces for conferences of all sizes. Each of Caesars’ 50+ properties comply with its People Planet Play programs and include energy and waste reduction targets, including science-based emission reduction targets, low-carbon energy sourcing, on-site renewables, LEED buildings, on-site waste diversion and post-event donations, sustainable food and beverage options, local and sustainable sourcing, and post-event sustainability reporting.
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