Convention Industry Council Green Meetings Report

In 2003, the Convention Industry Council’s Green Meetings Task Force was charged with creating minimum best practices for event organizers and suppliers to use as guidelines for implementing policies of sustainability. The task force was composed of individuals from the EPA, the Ocean’s Blue Foundation, the Society of Incentive Travel Executive’s Green Meeting Group, the World Travel Organization, hotels, convention and visitor’s bureaus, convention centers, and meeting-planning organizations. The results of the Task Force’s work are a series of guidelines for event organizers and event suppliers on running environmentally friendly events. Those guidelines are available in this report.