Event Greening Forum launches in South Africa

Good news for South Africa - the Event Greening Forum has launched . The aim of the Event Greening Forum (EGF) is to promote and embrace sustainable and ethical business practices within the events industry in South Africa, with an initial focus on meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions and events (hereafter called events industry). The EGF was established through the dedication and support of the industry associations who are recognised as founding members and these include The Event and Exhibition Association of South Africa (EXSA), The SA Roadies Association, The International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA Africa), The Technical Production services Association (TPSA)  And The South Africa Tourism Services Association. Other members include Three City Events and Show Light.The following objectives have been identified for the Event Greening Forum:

• To be industry driven and have mandated representatives from main industry role players;
• To set minimum standards around event greening within the industry;
• To raise awareness and promote training opportunities for event greening principles and practices;
• To ensure appropriate marketing and branding to promote event greening principles and practices;
• To provide a platform for sharing information and best practice around event greening principles and practices;
• To integrate current initiatives and role players and to draw existing frameworks into one system as far as possible, rather than develop an independent entity;
• To initially work as a voluntary system, but encourage regulation;
• To ensure communication with Government to promote event greening processes, standards and regulations;
• To raise funds to ensure the long sustainability of the forum; and
• To “walk the talk” through our actions based on the triple bottom line principle of people, planet and prosperity

More at www.eventgreening.co.za