When organising an event, good preparation and follow-up measures are essential. Focusing on sustainability right from the start opens up vast potential for environmental protection and climate action, and improved conditions for everyday life and work. These Guidelines set out measures that can be integrated into the planning process at an early stage to ensure events are environmentally sound and climate neutral. 

While the Guidelines have been developed specifically for use by the Federal Administration, the goals, objectives and measures it contains can be easily transferred to other events. In Germany’s National Programme on Sustainable Consumption, the Federal Government – also aware of its role model function – has committed to ensuring that its own events are sustainably planned, organised and managed. Events are an ideal platform on which to credibly demonstrate how easy and enriching adopting environmentally sound practices can be.

The impact of an event can be enormous – while its organisers and participants facilitate sustainability through their actions and behaviours, contracted service providers respond by adapting their goods and services to meet that demand, increasingly offering sustainable solutions.