Green Meetings in Germany

Guidelines for the organisation of green events

Green Meeting Guide of the United Nations / ICLEI -  Local Governments for Sustainability

The Guide focuses in particular on the most common type of meetings within the UN: small and medium sized meetings with up to 200 participants. It is structured to support those individuals and teams who are responsible for the organisation and the logistics related to the event. Its two core sections -“Green meetings: what to know” and “Green meetings: what to do”- will give the readers both the elements to
explain the background and justification to organise a green meeting, and a practical checklist to guide the implementation phase.

The guide is available online at: http://www.unep.fr/scp/sun

Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Organisation of Events

from the German Environment Ministry  

Conferences and other events may affect the environment in many different ways – e.g. travel of visitors to and from the event and the consumption of electricity, water and paper. A new free guideline of the German environment ministry and Federal Environment Office (UBA) shows you how to avoid harming the environment. Ten fields of action are focal for this scheme: Event-related travel is of particular importance. Further aspects for a green event include low paper, water and power consumption and waste reduction. And organisers can also do something for the environment in the field of catering – e.g. by opting for local organic produce.
This guideline is based on experience gathered by the German environment ministry and the Federal Environment Office especially for organising events in the context of the German EU presidency and G8 chairmanship in 2007.

Here you can download the guideline directly as a PDF file.