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【Sustainability】
Informa is committed to having a positive impact on people and planet. We want to play a key role in helping improve its own sustainability by connecting people with the networks and knowledge they need to help solve the big challenges of the future.
AS PART OF OUR COMMITMENT, WE ARE FOCUSING ON:
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Inspire Sustainable DevelopmentEmbed sustainability into our brand by 2025 to inspire our sector to be more sustainable, promoting the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. |
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Environmentally ResponsibleBecome carbon neutral, halve our waste and save customers more carbon than we emit by 2025 as a stepping stone to being zero waste and net zero carbon by 2030 or earlier. |
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Socially ResponsibleContribute value of at least 1% of profit before tax to community groups by 2025, champion diversity and inclusion and create value for our host cities. |
Sustainability at Informa focuses on the long term impacts we have on customers, colleagues, the communities we work in and the environment. For this reason, Informa developed the Faster Forward approach to sustainable business.
Informa’s aim is to become an ever more sustainable, positive impact business. Through the Faster Forward programme, we are embedding sustainability into everything we do and seizing opportunities from helping our customers and markets do the same.
Faster Forward is a structured three-part programme with ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, covering Informa's business operations, our brands and products and our broader community impact. To find more about our approach, follow this link。
When it comes to sustainability, we’re moving Faster Forward.
Informa plc is ranked #1 in the media sector globally in the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Indices 2022. Read more here: Informa achieves top global ranking in Media Sector in leading ESG Index
As a visitor
• Consider how you'll get to the event and if you can avoid air travel or take lower carbon transport
• Bring a refillable bottle to save plastic
• Recycle your waste onsite and in your hotel where possible
• Avoid food waste
• Only take the give-aways or brochures you need and will use, consider if there are digital alternatives
As an exhibitor
• Ensure your stand is designed so that its structure will be used again by either yourself or by your contractors
• For your travel and transport, choose the most sustainable option possible for your journey to and from the event. Consolidate your shipments and use logistic companies that have sustainability credentials
• When purchasing promotional items, consider the amount you order, the environmental credentials of the materials they are made from, as well as whether they are useful giveaways that will be used long after the event is over
• Help to support the sustainability of the local area by using local suppliers and considering the sustainability credentials of the hotels you book
• Inspire the sustainable development of your industry by promoting your company’s and your products’ sustainability credentials
• Select energy efficient, LED lighting and other equipment for your stand and be sure to power down your equipment at the end of the day
• Reduce paper handouts by going digital and source recycled, sustainably certified paper options where printing is needed. Eg, FSC or recycled paper
• Ensure you and your contractor are aware of and compliant with all health, safety and security requirements
• Think about what waste your stand will create and try to minimize it as much as possible. For the unavoidable waste items, try to ensure it will be recycled. Key items to consider include signage, carpeting, signal use of wood and packaging waste
It is an industry wide campaign aimed to unite exhibitors, contractors and the wider events industry together to move away from disposable, single use booths at our events, in favour of reusable structures.
We believe that by moving away from the use of disposable exhibition stands we will improve the ease, quality, safety, and sustainability of the exhibitor experience at our events.
We would like you to join us in moving towards the future of exhibiting.
