American Express Meetings and Events has announced the launch of a suite of sustainable meeting and events solutions to help customers measure and reduce their carbon footprint.
The suite currently contains two components.
The Sustainable Meetings Program
This solution is led by a team of professionals who help customers assess their meetings program and develop an end-to-end sustainability strategy, aligned with corporate sustainability goals. This includes setting measurable objectives, implementing systems to plan sustainable meetings and events, and measuring and reporting on an event’s carbon impact.
The Carbon Neutral Events Solution
This helps organisations reduce, measure, and offset meetings and events emissions. The proprietary GBT event carbon calculator identifies the carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics to help customers understand the relative impact of each event category. With this insight, customers can calculate the amount of offsetting measures needed to achieve carbon neutrality.
Commenting on the reason behind the launch, Milton Rivera, VP global business development, Global Client Group and APAC region for American Express Meetings and Events, said: “The value of meeting face-to-face is more profoundly and widely recognised than ever.
“The world has changed: organisations want smarter travel and meetings and they want to work with responsible, sustainable and inclusive partners who can help achieve them.”
