Event Organizers Sector Supplement - Global Reporting Initiative

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Indicator Protocols Set: Legacy
EO11 Number, type and impact of
sustainability initiatives designed to
raise awareness, share knowledge and
impact behavior change and results
achieved.
1. Relevance
Events are a highly effective platform to transfer
knowledge to stakeholders and can be an important
way for advancing sustainability, driving innovation
and developing society. These factors can be used to
demonstrate the legacy impact of the event.
Event Organizers Sector Supplement
2.2 Report the number and type of activities to
transfer knowledge. For example:
• Number of briefing sessions for suppliers;
• Development of standards and local guidelines
to improve the organization of an event, and/
or to improve other industries, with respect to
sustainability
• Webinars, conferences, seminars and
workshops organized pre-, during and postevent;
• Number and type of reports published;
EO
Events influence attendees, participants, guests, viewers
and others, and can be powerful tools for raising
awareness and changing behavior. Throughout the
project life cycle, an event organizer can implement
sustainability policies and undertake practices and
initiatives that may leave a lasting impact, transfer
knowledge, and influence behavior change among
stakeholders. Events can also facilitate information
sharing among gathered attendees and participants,
who can learn not only from the event and the event’s
sustainable operations and content, but also from each
other. Such learning and information-sharing can be a
tool for long term and lasting behavioral, social, cultural,
institutional, and technological change.
Given the nature and scale of events, event organizers
have both the responsibility and opportunity to
communicate sustainable development principles and
influence enduring behavioral change.
• Platforms for information sharing between
event stakeholders; and
• Initiatives to include all populations in the
event and the provision of its products
and services, in terms of legacy, specifically
targeted at disadvantaged populations.
2.3 Report the type, number and impact of known
activities initiated by stakeholders as a result of
new knowledge learned through an event.
2.4 Report the impact of initiatives that have lasting
social, environmental or economic impact and that
lead to enduring behavior change, post-event and
within set time lines.
For example:
EO
Legacies can be those that are known, clearly defined
and measured, and evident in the project life cycle, and
future legacies that are yet to be defined, including
initiatives with potential for a positive legacy.
• change in transportation modes;
• change in waste recycling rates;
• energy conservation behavior change;
2. Compilation
• adoption of sustainable sourcing practices;
2.1 Report the number and type of initiatives
and projects occurring in association with the
event that have lasting social, environmental or
economic impact. Include initiatives to integrate
awareness-raising on sustainability into event
content throughout the project life cycle. This may
include projects supported by event organizers or
by independent third parties.
• adoption of sustainable operating practices;
• attitude and behavior change on selected
social issues, (e.g., accessibility); and
• enhancement of civic pride and cultural
identity, through citizen or stakeholder
surveys, media monitoring or citizen
participation tracking, and the number of
people impacted.
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