Friday, April 12, 2013

TCEB partners to develop environment protection guidelines


News this week: The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO) to develop environmental guidelines and carbon footprint assessment tools for the exhibition industry.

TCEB is promoting two standards related to environmental protection: the energy management standard IOS 50001, and the sustainable management and administration of event business ISO 20121. According to TCEB, the MoU facilitates cooperation in assisting the exhibition industry to find viable ways to reduce an exhibition’s environment impact.

Thongchai Sridama, Committee, acting on behalf of the President of TCEB, commented, “If all MICE operators realise the heart of this issue and adopt the carbon footprint assessment as part of their business operation, it will definitely help create business opportunities particularly among customers… TCEB, as its next step, will expand the direction of carbon footprint assessment to cover other fields of MICE, namely the convention and incentive industries.”

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