Sydney, Kuala Lumpur are the green stars
SYDNEY: The Sydney Convention and Exhibition has been accredited as a Green Globe Benchmarked Convention Centre.
The Centre is one of only two convention centres in the world to achieve the ranking, with Kuala Lumper Convention Centre being awarded the Green Globe accreditation at the same time.
Centre chief executive Ton van Amerongen said the benchmark accreditation reflected the Centre’s commitment to the environment and the achievements of its environmental programme, Ecowise, designed to reduce the Centre’s waste and cut its energy usage.
Green Globe is the global benchmarking, certification and improvement system for sustainable travel and tourism, established by the World Travel and Tourism Council in 1993.
Its rigorous benchmarking programme ranks businesses across a range of areas including energy and water consumption, use of paper and chemical products, waste sent to landfill, waste recycling and sustainability policies.
In its assessment report for the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Green Globe said the Centre had achieved above the baseline level across 10 key areas.
Furthermore, in six areas – water saving, waste sent to landfill, waste recycling, paper products, cleaning products and pesticide products – the Centre was above the best practice level, which Green Globe noted as “an achievement to be very highly commended”.
Green Globe Asia Pacific marketing executive Jason Keating described the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre as a prime example of being committed to environmentally sustainable tourism.
Ian Jarrett
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