Briefing and Q&A:Event Organizer Sector Supplement
Content
• Project aims• GRI Report Statistics• Working Group Members• The End Goal• Project planning• Strategic choices made • Main draft disclosure items
Project Aims
• Respond to the unique sustainability challenges and reporting needs that Event sector faces.
• Provide a platform for collaboration between those working in a sector and their stakeholders to define the new reporting guidance.
• Improve the accessibility of the G3 Guidelines and hold the potential to both enhance the quality and increase the quantity of reports.
GRI Event Organizers Reporters Example reports
• Reed Elsevier• Vancouver 2010• COP15
The End GoalSector-specific reporting guidance integrated into the G3 Guidelines:
EOSS Introduction
Commentaries on existing Performance Indicators and DMA
New Performance Indicators
Working Group Members
Advisory Group Members
Project Planning Implementation
Phase 1 Implementation
Phase 2
LaunchCRESS
• 3 Working Group Meetings
First Draft and Public SurveyOpening Date: 26 May 2010Closing Date: 3 August 2010
Project Initiation
• 2/3 Working Group Meetings
• Final Draft• Public Comment
Period• Final Meeting• Governance Review
Mid 2011
Strategic choices made Reporting Boundary:• Sustainability performance of
Event Organizers (including multiples events)
• Report on one off Events
New Aspects: • Sourcing • Food and beverage• Site selection• Knowledge transfer
14 new Performance Indicators: • 2 Environmental• 2 Society• 5 Product
Responsibility• 4 Legacy
Main draft disclosure itemsCommunity:• Civil liberties and
protests, high risk groups • Impact assessment
Sourcing:• Sourcing of products and
services • Indirect energy
consumption
Transportation
Anti-doping and Corruption Training
Food and beverage:•Environmental, security, health, hygiene, nutrition, drinking water access initiatives
Site selection•Commissions, familiarisation trips, gifting during site selection or bid process stage
New Category: Legacy• The legacy dimension of sustainability concerns the
organization’s impacts on the legacy the event leaves to its stakeholders and on systems at local, national, and global levels. The Legacy Indicators illustrate:• Main legacy impacts of the organization throughout
society.• Events of all sizes can leave legacies
• What is often reported less, and is frequently desired by users of sustainability reports, is the organization’s contribution to the sustainability of a larger economic system.
Thank you and please provide you comments!
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