Climate action frameworkroundtable review
In collaboration with#eventscreatechange
www.positiveimpactevents.com

Since 2017, Positive Impact has been engaging with the event
sector on the Climate Action Framework with our memorandumsof understanding with UNFCCC
The Position as of June 2021 is:On the 28th of January 2021, UNFCCC and Positive Impact Events
invited 39 people to a #BuildBackBetter Roundtable to discuss theevent sector having a Climate Action Framework launched at
COP26 in the UK. This roundtable included:
UNFCCC
COP26
Theresa Villiers member of Parliament of the United Kingdomand chair
The Cabinet Office
Visit England (Bringing the support of all UK conventionbureaus)
British Standards Institute
Institute of Event Management
BVEP (who represent all Associations with chapters in the U.K.)
On the 7th of June, Positive Impact held roundtables on the climate
action framework and the opportunity of being a founding member.
Positive Impact reached out to our over 1500 Global
Ambassador Community to ask who would be willing to become afounding member and over 34 ambassadors joined theroundtables and committed to be founding members; including:
MCI Group UK (60 offices worldwide)
T-Mobile U.S.
Interface
GES (4000 live experiences annually across over 75 countries)
Reed Exhibitions (7 millions visitors across the globe)
PIE Factory
Barbican (1.5 million visit people annually)
Maritz Global Events
Kenes Group (55,000 association members)
Church House (1000 unique events a year)
Messukeskus (1 million visitors annually)
These companies represent a number of the mostsignificant suppliers in the event sector supply chain.
These roundtables gathered support from companies across theentire value chain of the event sector, the UK government and
COP26 for creation of a Climate Action Framework and for being
involved as a founding member.

Contributions during the Roundtableon the 28th of January
Nick Baker, Deputy Directorof Business andEngagement, COP26'We are asking companies tocommit to going net zero by2050 or earlier and to publish
a short to medium term planon how they are going toachieve that target, as wellas, committing to Science
Based Targets.'

Theresa Villiers, Chair of theAll-Party ParliamentaryGroup for Events'The government has a keyrole to play, not least in thedecarbonisation of travel,
because we knowinternational and domestic
travel is the lifeblood of
successful events andconferences’

Sarah Fowler, Board
Member of Visit England
Advisory Board‘I really value the conceptof developing a frameworkaligned to COP26, thatadvances the Sustainable
Development Goals.... I know
MeetEngland and VisitBritain
welcome this initiative andwant to work in collaboration’Anne Hayes, Director ofSectors, British Standards
Institute'As the event sector starts tomove towards a restart, canit restart as it was or could itbuild on the opportunities
provided by COP26 andaddress the issues of climatechange? Standards can help
address this challenge.’

Miguel Naranjo, ProgrammeOfficer, UNFCCC'Goals for reducing
emissions would beagreed and aframework created tosupport them'

Niclas Svenningsen,Manager, Global Climate
Action at UNFCCC'The UNFCCC
secretariat helped
shape sector initiatives
for fashion and sports'

Simon Evans, Sustainability
Director of Ecobooth'There is ultimately acompetitive advantage
for the UK events sector
to be getting this rightand taking action now.'

Susan Spibey, Executive
Board Chair of Institute ofEvent Management'The way forward is tosupport the redevelopmentof the professional
standards for event
management ensuring
sustainability is embedded
as a common threadthroughout.’Support for the Climate Action Framework
From Corporates on the 7th of June
Laura Miller, Manager of Events and Customer
Experience, Interface‘We are eager to participate in the creation of aclimate action framework for event
professionals''Event professionals are on board, but need aframework that facilitates achievable andmeasurable outcomes,
perhaps similar to successful models in otherindustries'

Dean Armintrout, Director of Events, T-Mobile U.S.
‘We all know climate change is probably the mostimportant issue of our time, it is up to all of us totake action'To make net Zero attainable, we need a framework
on how to make it happen’’Support for the Climate Action
Framework from the event Supply Chainon the 7th of June
‘Now is the time tocome together andto set a collaborative
agenda because theevent sector isactually ready, which
it hasn't been for 25years.’‘The Climate Action
Framework should bepart of the story ofhow the event sector
is affecting climatechange and how we
can make a huge
impact on carbon’‘Rather than seeingevents as somethingthat’s detrimental tothe planet, the climate
action framework will
help people realise
the power of events.’‘The Climate Action
framework needs tobe created succinctly
through UNFCCC, if
we have too manydifferent objectives
to try and achieve,
we are setting
ourselves up to fail.’This isn't a time for going off and making
individual commitments through individual
trade bodies, associations or other groups.
The obvious way forward is to align with theUN approach. As a supplier in the event sector
my experience was the associations were notable unite as one voice during COVID-19 andwithout UN alignment we risk the same
approach of all words and no action

Next Steps: Taking Action
Miguel Naranjo
Programme Officer, UNFCCC‘These roundtables confirm
that there is lots of interest
across the value chain in thesector and there needs to besome support provided toaccelerate action.’

After years of conversation,these roundtables
demonstrate the support fromthe entire event sector tocreate a Climate Action
Framework and that the timeto act is now.

Positive Impact are taking action, running a series of engagement
sessions; ‘The Road to COP26: Event Sector Transformation’ tomobilize the event sector to think about carbon before COP26.
This is being launched on the 29th of June with Andrew Griffith,
the UK’s Net Zero Business Champion, to engage with SMEs tocommit to net-zero emissions in the lead up to COP26.
This programme of engagement has been created to support up
to 1000 SME's, by COP26, to set a carbon target through the SME
Climate Hub and start taking action on their commitment withevent specific information on key steps created by Positive Impact.
Positive Impact intends for this programme of engagement tosupport UNFCCC Climate Action Framework.
Dates for Engagement on the road to COP26: Event
Sector Transformation:
Engage #1 7th of June
Engage #2 29th of June
Engage #3 27th of July
Engage #4 21st of September
Engage #5 19th of OctoberEngage #6 8th and 9th of November
Positive Impact
intends for thisprogramme ofengagement to bebeneficial to theirglobal communityof over 1500
Ambassadors