Travel management company Agiito has made progress towards achieving ISO accreditation for organising sustainable meetings and events.
The UK-based company said it has now adopted the ISO 2012-01 standard as part of its work towards achieving full ISO 20121 accreditation for sustainable event management by the end of this year.
Agiito has been working towards the standard since March 2022 as it looks to achieve “best practice levels of efficiency and performance” for meetings and events.
This work has included all team members completing sustainable events training, increased regulatory compliance and better risk management. Agiito has also included green symbols and compliance logos on its marketing materials.
In addition, a policy of “reducing, reusing and recycling” has been established for events to try to mitigate and eliminate any negative environmental impacts.
Kirsty Given, director of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Agiito, said: “We wanted to ensure sustainability remains at the heart of our ways of working, so made the decision to work towards this standard to give our customer assurance that we can help meet their environmental targets and goals.
“As more businesses look to work with responsible suppliers and tenders request evidence of sustainable practices, we believe working towards this standard will give customers confidence in our event operations.”
Given added that the ISO standard was also being used to “define roles and responsibilities for staff, contractors and suppliers”, as well as identifying ways to improve event planning and delivery.