May 2010
We are planting trees after the congress
On May 19th the Faculty of Management, University of Lodz witnessed a special event related to last year’s Congress. The local organisers of the Congress planted several trees which for many years to come will remind that the 49th European Congress of the European Regional Science Assotiation was organised in line with green conference requirements.
The Local Organising Committee decided to organise this event in line with the BS 8901 standard. Implementation of the standard was entrusted to Meeting Designers, a dedicated conference organiser.
The major differences between a standard conference and a green one lie in the fact that organising a green event requires undertaking several actions aiming at reducing the negative environmental impact of the event and supporting the local society. The examples of actions taken when organising the last year’s Congress are: conference materials made from biodegradable resources, recycling unused conference materials, saving electricity by using rooms with access to sunlight, promoting local cultural heritage through organising technical excursions, segregating waste, planting trees as a way to offset the CO2 emission.
