Gord unveils Green Events Tool at COP26 in collaboration UN

Gord unveils Green Events Tool at COP26 in collaboration UN

Marking its participation at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (Gord) has launched the Green Events Tool (GET) developed collaboratively by Gord, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat and UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

GET is an integrated web-based assessment platform to evaluate the environmental performance of events. With an aim to address climate change, the tool targets decarbonisation by focusing on environmental impacts and GHG emissions of mega events, conferences, meetings, exhibitions and trade fairs, etc. From transportation and lodging to paper trails, catering and energy use, GET provides an all-encompassing approach that identifies ways to host ecofriendly events with minimal carbon footprint. GET can help to evaluate and try to reduce the carbon footprint of any event.

Leading Gord’s delegation at COP26 is the organisation’s founding chairman, Dr Yousef Alhorr who said, “In terms of carbon emissions, what’s on an event’s agenda represents only the tip of the iceberg. The upstream and downstream components of an event associated with travel, accommodation, logistics etc. account for massive amounts of GHG emissions and environmental footprints.”

“Sustainability is increasingly being absorbed as a core part of social corporate responsibility.