This course will provide you with an overview of how sustainability standards, initiatives and best practice could shape your event strategy. Multiple dates are available across the year.

Get access to practical resources covering the following topics: commit, measure, business strategy, reduce own emissions, reduce value chain emissions, contribute to climate action in society. The resources for each section include animations, reading materials and more.

Understand how to engage with your CEO or Head of Sustainability and deliver a sustainable event. This course provides practical resources to take action. It has been created for those with an understanding of what a sustainable event is and a job role where they are responsible for the delivery of events.

Educate is a product relevant for anyone who would like to be empowered to progress the Sustainable Development Goals. For a one-time payment of £100 you will get access to 12 hours of content from global thought leaders which you can consume in your own time.

ISO 20121 is the global standard for a sustainable event and is suitable for the global event supply chain including SMEs. The aim of this course is to provide the knowledge required to understand how to implement the management system in accordance with ISO 20121.

ISO 20121:2024 was released in April 2024 following a revision. Positive Impact and BSI have come together to produce this twopart education course. This starts with BSI’s education course on the learning requirements of ISO 20121:2024 which provides the user with an understanding of the standard, followed by an implementation course for ISO 20121:2024 provided by Positive Impact Events.

The ISO 20121:2024 Event Sustainability Management Course from Understanding to Implementation: a bundle product from BSI and Positive Impact Events will provide you with all the understanding and practical support you need to be able to demonstrate evidence of implementation of ISO 20121:2024

A free 90 minute webinar for event professionals to learn more about the ISO 20121 revision progress and the role of human and child rights and safeguarding.

Share a Positive Impact is an online campaign designed to advance sustainability commitments and the United Nations Sustainable Developments Goals through events. Anyone attending or working within the events sector can share inspirational examples of sustainability on social media using #shareapositiveimpact.

COP27 has provided some clear signs which forward-thinking event professionals will not have missed.

In 2019, the United Nations asked for commitments to action to accelerate progress towards the sustainable development goals. This was an opportunity to demonstrate the role of events in accelerating action to achieving the SDGs and not for profit Positive Impact continues to take action on this.

To empower you to use your voice and #breakthebias around gender in the event sector we have created a basic toolkit.

Positive Impact are following a design thinking approach to address what the role of plastic in the event industry might be.

Everything you need to know about how the event sector is addressing carbon emissions.

Watch this #buildbackbetter roundtable with COP26 leaders, UK Government and the UNFCCC on how a climate action framework with quantitative carbon reduction targets and a measurable reduction could be created before COP26.

Browse our library for inspiring examples of a sustainable event industry or add your own example.

Positive Impact Events, in collaboration with GES, have created a circular economy toolkit to help event professionals audit what materials are present at their event and discover which materials can be substituted for more sustainable alternatives.

With reference to Project Drawdown, Positive Impact has researched 10 ways you can reduce your event’s carbon footprint.