Marginal Gains for the Sustainable Events Race- with Planet Positive Event
Grand Tour results depend upon sum-totals of team margins way before the race ever begins. When podium places are separated by a few seconds here, a wheel-length there, the data becomes mission-critical – for the climb ahead, for the breakaway, for the final bunched sprint to the line. Learning from élite sports often brings stimulating, fresh perspective to business strategy, and while #Eventprofs serious about impact upon our life-sustaining planet can ride through the basics of Responsible Destination Selection + Purposeful Programme Design, the data never lies. Vision without Purpose fails to reach potential, Action without Measurement is a recipe for losers!
Less Is More: Bike races are all about conserving energy for the right moments and we’ve been applying the Planet Positive Event Methodology to measure our MSC impact long before our Roadies & Easy-Riders arrive in Slovenia for the ‘only Meetings and Events tradeshow on two wheels’. Of course, we’ll never win this race until emissions drop to zero and, mindful that perfection in all-we-do is often a barrier to progress, we’re happy to openly report on findings to date – so here is just some of the data from our stunning Julian Alps training camp!
👥 320 person-days of preparation
🌍 496.33 kg CO₂e in pre-tour preparation emissions
- includes project-management mobility, office energy, waste & water use
Location, Location, Location
We’re also mapping hotel stays, associated emissions & established sustainability measures across our three-stage tour: Hit Alpinea, Kranjska Gora ● Bohinj ECO Hotel ● Sava Hotels Bled
🏨 58 room-nights
🌍 1,119.4 kg CO₂e from hotel accommodation
Hotel sustainability measures include some elements often overlooked:
🌍 Around 60% renewable energy, including geothermal energy
♨️ Waste-heat recovery used to heat swimming pools
💡 Smart-room systems that reduce unnecessary energy and water use
♨️ District heating
🥕 Local sourcing from nearby suppliers
💧 Drinking-water fountains supporting reduced bottled-water use
🔌 EV charging infrastructure
With science-based PPE as our Road Captain, we’re riding-to-power within well-calculated limits, gradually but deliberately dropping those challenging emissions from the bike race.
We cannot do any form of business on a planet under threat and amongst a world-class field of speakers at our alpine-adrenalin venue of Planica Nordic Centre , PPE Green Pilot, Francisca Flajs will be revealing more of the PPE methodology, educating the handpicked MICE-buyer peloton on how to SHIFT from loosely-measured, post-event commitments to measurable, pre-event action – for Mother Nature, for all species and for future generations. Chapeau PPE!
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