Exhibitions, conferences, concerts and sporting events create waste, travel, noise and a lot of pressure on local communities. Clients and sponsors are starting to ask what you’re doing about it.
ISO 20121 gives you a system for planning events with those effects in mind. We help you build it and certify it.
It isn’t a checklist of green tips. It’s a management system: you work out which impacts matter for your events, set objectives, involve suppliers and stakeholders, and keep improving.
The 2024 edition added more on human rights, inclusion and the legacy an event leaves behind, along with climate and supply chain issues.
ISO 20121:2024 is the second edition and replaces the 2012 version. Certification bodies are moving existing clients to the new text, with transition periods set by accreditation bodies.
No. The organization’s management system is certified, and it applies across all the events within scope.
No. It works for events of any size.
No, but you’ll need to involve them and set expectations.
Usually three to six months.