Abstract

Guests come to conferences by plane, trade fair buildings are nothing but scrap after just a few days and the carbon footprint is extremely poor - unfortunately, this still applies to many events in Germany. Nevertheless, sustainability is increasingly becoming an issue there too. In 2012, the event industry adopted its own sustainability code under the name "fairpflichtet". What approaches to "green meetings" - i.e. sustainably organised trade fairs, conferences and congresses - are there today?

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