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Confex 2012: Fiona Pelham, ISO 20121

Fiona Pelham, Chair of the ISO 20121 Committee, presented at the 2012: A Year of Sustainability in the Event Industry session on 7th March 2012. She spoke about the development of new industry standards and reporting for sustainability, including the sustainable event management standard, ISO 20121, and the sustainability reporting framework, GRI EOSS. Her presentation also covered the new sustainability initiatives that are currently being developed for the event industry in the form of roadmaps for waste and resources, and food.

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GRI Event Organizers Sector Supplement

The Global Reporting Initiative Event Organizers Sector Supplement (GRI EOSS) launched in January 2012, bringing a fantastic opportunity for the event industry to report on sustainability. You can find out more about this sustainability reporting framework by clicking the links below. There are two documents: one is a guidance document which provides an overview of the sector supplement, and the other is the supplement in full.

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Thesis: Sport Social Sustainability Index

Masters thesis from Anton Haag: The purpose of this paper was to develop an index to measure the social sustainability within a destination after a mega sport event. These happenings are as huge that they could be used as image changers and tourism catalysts for the host destination. Tools to observe the positive, but also negative changes for the society will be helpful in the future, and therefore in this work, indicators were found and created, which will help to measure the sustainable developments in…

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