Report - How to Plan a Sustainable Event – Part 1
Sustainability, a Major Factor in Achieving Successful Games in Tokyo: Tokyo
2020 Games as a successor to the London 2012 Games’ Legacy
Date

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 15:30-17:30 JST in Tokyo

Venue

Lambuth Hall, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo Marunouchi Campus
Sapia Tower 10th Floor, 1-7-12 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Organizer

Caux Round Table Japan, CERESPO CO.,LTD., SGS Japan Inc.

Language Japanese and English (simultaneous interpretation)

On March 18th, 2014, Caux Round Table in collaboration with Cerespo and SGS
Japan held a joint conference on “How to Plan a Sustainable Event” focusing on
Sustainability as Major Factor in Achieving Successful Games in Tokyo 2020 as
successor to the London 2012 Games. 42 people from 33 organizations
participated in this conference and received the lectures on the experience on
the protagonists who made possible the sustainable games in London 2012.
The conference began with an introduction by Toshihiko Inaba, President ofCerespo Co., Ltd., who addressed to the importance on sustainability and theinternational standards related to it to achieve successful games for Tokyo 2020,“Social satisfaction in events now involves sustainability” he said. Thereafter
Fiona Pelham, Managing Director of Sustainable Events Ltd., explained ISO
20121 as the international standard that supports event sustainability, defined by
the British Standards Institution (BSI) as “A process that provides an enduring,balanced approach to economic activity, environmental responsibility, and social
progress” - BS 8901. And afterwards three video messages about the “Lesson
Learnt from London 2012 Games” addressing different issues in construction,
corporate sponsorship, and security and human rights by Richard Jackson, headof sustainability for the ODA, Simon Lewis, Director, Team Planet (Previously
worked for WWF UK), and Asma Jhina, head of policy, security operations for
LOCOG, respectively.
Responding to the audience concerns Fiona Pelham highlighted three points:
1. The difference between ISO20121 and other ISO standards is that its focus onsustainability, and that as a standard designed for the events industry, thestakeholders play a very important role in it.
2. It is a big opportunity for Japan to take the lead since the implementation of aninternational standard will bring good reputation thus the real benefit comes fromthe implementation and the plus of a certification as a badge.
3. Even when it’s not mandatory by the standard to report, it is important tocommunicate the results even from your own website to something moresophisticated as a GRI sustainable report.
Finally after an active Q&A session there was a closing remark by Hiroshi Ishida
Executive Director of CRT-Japan. He identified various key words on theconference such as: legacy, stakeholder engagement, partnership and impact.
“In order to succeed we need to consider stakeholder engagement andpartnership” Ishida mentioned, referring to CRT-Japan stakeholder engagement
program launched in 2013.
There are many issues on various industries and people from many different
countries will come to Japan, so the question remained: What are we going to doon this regard? In further conferences we will discuss about the challenges wewill face towards Tokyo 2020 Games, Ishida concluded.