Events Management Jo Jukes Marketing Events Manager Oxfam New Zealand

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Events ManagementJo JukesMarketing Events
ManagerOxfam New Zealand
NZAEP 2008 Best Environmentally Sustainable Award
winner Oxfam Trailwalker. Oxfam talks about
the role of sustainable events in society and the
award winning Oxfam Trailwalker event. Capturing
the essence of sustainability and translating
that into a successful event context.
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• Oxfam Trailwalker is the most life changing,
  team building, foot slogging, friendship forming,
  group hugging, experience ever

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Who is Oxfam New Zealand?
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Oxfam NZ Change Goals

• ONZs Strategic Plan encompasses seven change
  goals
• Change Goal 7 Walking the Talk
• Walking the Talk ensures that ONZ operates
  according to its values in creating opportunities
  for staff and volunteers to develop to learn and
  continuously improve to operate effectively and
  efficiently to reduce environmental impacts and
  to be accountable to donors and intended
  beneficiaries.

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Sustainable Oxfam Trailwalker

• Oxfam Aims
• To achieve British Standard (2007) 8901,
• clauses 5 13
• Specification for a sustainable event management
  system with guidance for use.
• 2. To influence participant attitudes and
  behaviour in regard to environmental
  sustainability.

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Sustainability
A sustainable event is one that ensures
resources are used in such a way that they will
remain available for others to use and enjoy
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Disclaimer

• ONZ does not offset carbon emissions and believes
  carbon offsetting is fundamentally the wrong way
  to go about being sustainable.
• Reduction is the way forward.
• 2. I am not an expert.

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Back to Oxfam Trailwalker

• We started off doing the usual things
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle

We developed Green Events Guidelines
including Step 1 Made a commitment to
environmental sustainability Step 2 Written an
Environmental Plan Step 3 Engaged key
stakeholders Step 4 Implemented your plan on the
day Step 5 Communicated systems to all those
involved Step 6 Monitored and recorded the
environmental impact of activities
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How did we tell if we were making a difference?
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Introducing
Instep is an independent environmental monitoring
company offering Carbon Sustainability
programmes to organisations events.
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Specific examples

• Potato vs Plastic
• Ethical sponsors
• Caps tshirts
• Medals

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Take-aways

• Measure then reduce
• Think about your consumer choices
• Environmental sustainability goes beyond the days
  of your event.

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