Re: Iso 20121
Jahed Stetter
ISO 20121 is a beacon for sustainable event management, guiding organizations to seamlessly integrate sustainability into every facet of their event planning and execution. With a keen eye on social, economic, and environmental impacts, this standard is pivotal for events that aspire to leave a lasting positive legacy. This standard applies to events of all types and sizes, encouraging organizations to manage social, economic, and environmental impacts responsibly.
In today's event management, the push for sustainability is paramount. ISO 20121 emerges as a pivotal resource, guiding organizations toward practices that are more ethical, eco-friendly, and socially conscious. Highlighting new focuses on human and children's rights, along with event legacies, the standard showcases sustainability's transformative role in the industry. It offers various conformity demonstration methods, including self-declaration, supplier validation, and third-party certification, making sustainable practices attainable for all organizations, especially SMEs facing certification costs.
The 2024 update enriches the standard with a stronger emphasis on social legacies, inclusivity, and the diverse means of demonstrating compliance, fostering a more comprehensive and accessible approach to sustainable event management.
Beyond a checklist, it's a transformative framework that empowers organizations to lead with sustainability at the heart of event management, inviting a creative yet systematic approach to making a positive, enduring impact.
This standard contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals 3 Good Health and Well-being 5 Gender Equality 6 Clean Water and Sanitation 7 Affordable and Clean Energy 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 10 Reduced Inequalities 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities 12 Responsible Consumption and Production 13 Climate Action 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 1 No Poverty 2 Zero Hunger 4 Quality Education 15 Life on Land 14 Life Below Water Got a question?Check out our Help and Support
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As climate change remains a major threat to long-term growth and prosperity, the IMF has a role to play in helping its members by providing policy advice related to mitigation, adaptation, and transition to a low carbon economy. The IMF also has a role to play in taking steps to advance its own operational sustainability efforts.
The ISO 20121 provided the Fund with a framework and guidance that was flexible and rigorous in measurement and monitoring, enabling the institution to track positive and negative impacts over time and take necessary steps to address them.
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ISO 20121 lays out a management system that helps you improve the sustainability of events. It has been designed to help you manage sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle.
Our climate is changing with potentially substantial implications for governments and industries. The events industry is no exception. Anyone involved in organizing and managing events needs to understand these trends, the implications on their businesses and then implement strategies to allow their business to respond in a more sustainable way.
ISO 20121 is the international standard for sustainable events management. It lays out a management system to help improve the sustainability of any type of event, applying throughout the its entire lifecycle from conception to legacy issues. ISO 20121 can be used by sponsors, venues, organizers and contractors, and is designed to help deliver quality events that maximize their contribution to sustainable development.
ISO 20121 is the international standard for sustainable events management. It outlines how to deliver quality events that maximize their contribution to sustainable development. ISO 20121 can be used by anyone involved in all types of events, throughout the event management cycle. And now you can implement your own sustainable events management system to maximize return on investment, reduce resource intensity and satisfy your sponsors, clients and attendees.
ISO 20121 is the international standard for sustainable events management. It specifies how to deliver events that sponsors, clients and attendees will appreciate. Internal auditing allows a company to assess its ISO 20121 framework to make sure it remains compliant, effective and keeps improving. A compliant ISO 20121 management system has the flexibility to deliver value consistently, despite no two events being the same and each needing a different approach. This course will show how to maintain conformance with ISO 20121 requirements. Current knowledge about the standard will be reviewed and any gaps closed. The requirements will also be considered in the context of an audit.
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As an accredited certification body, BSI Assurance cannot offer certification to clients where they have also received consultancy from another part of the BSI Group for the same management system. Likewise, we do not offer consultancy to clients when they also seek certification to the same management system.
The British Standards Institution (BSI, a company incorporated by Royal Charter), performs the National Standards Body (NSB) activity in the UK. BSI, together with its Group Companies, also offers a broad portfolio of business solutions other than NSB activity that help businesses worldwide to improve results through Standards-based best practice (such as certification, self-assessment tool, software, product testing, information products and training).
ISO 20121:2012 is an international standard for sustainability management systems applied to events, pioneered by the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games London 2012. It assesses the way sustainability is integrated into key decisions at every step of event planning and staging.
The ISO 20121 certification was pioneered by the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games London 2012, which were a catalyst for its development. It has since become one of the sustainability requirements for every Olympic Games, with Rio 2016, PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 all having been certified. It is also increasingly used by major sports and other event organisers.
The IOC takes a proactive approach to ensure that sustainability is embedded in all aspects of organising the Olympic Games. Leaving a sustainable and positive legacy for the host city and country is a primary, achievable objective for all organisers of the Olympic Games.
"We are honored to receive this prestigious recognition once again and would like to thank everyone who played a pivotal role in helping us get to this point," said Jason Miller, Senior Vice President of Operations. "This achievement speaks to our organizational commitment to sustainability, starting with great leadership at the top led by Jeffrey Lurie and Don Smolenski. Being recertified validates all the hard work, time, and resources we put forth to ensure that our operation is continuously reducing our carbon footprint on the environment."
The objective of the certification process was to provide the Eagles with an independent opinion as to whether their event management system met the criteria for ISO 20121. iCompli Sustainability, a division of BPA Worldwide, performed the independent third-party audit and determined that the work was in accordance with the iCompli protocol and that such work satisfied the ISO standard.
"As we strive to be a global leader in sustainability, our hope is that this recognition encourages others to join us on this journey and pursue ISO 20121 certification," said Norman Vossschulte, Director of Fan Experience, Philadelphia Eagles. "We believe this accreditation serves many benefits and will also help position our city as we collectively seek to be a host site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup."
The Eagles' Go Green program has been internationally recognized for its commitment to sustainability and eco-friendly measures. The team has earned LEED Gold status by the U.S. Green Building Council, a GBAC (Global Biorisk Advisory Council) STAR accreditation, and recently became the first U.S. professional sports team to offset team travel emissions through the support of Ocean Conservancy's Blue Playbook. Their progressive approach has enabled them to serve as proud environmental stewards in Philadelphia and beyond.
Specifically, the Head of Sustainability at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Stubbs, was looking for a way to make good on the sustainability promises made in the London Games bid.[1]
He raised the issue with the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the UK. This led to the creation of BS 8901:2007 Specification for a sustainable event management system with guidance for use.[2] After a period of review, the second version of BS 8901 was published in 2009.[3]
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