Transform your event with the world's first sustainability rating
Planet Positive Event Certificate
All-in-one platform
Planet Positive Event is a holistic tool that makes a sustainability rating of your event. Its user-friendliness and reliability make it perfect for calculating your event’s sustainability including the carbon footprint.
Transform your event with the world's first sustainability rating
Planet Positive Event Certificate
All-in-one platform
Planet Positive Event is a holistic tool that makes a sustainability rating of your event. Its user-friendliness and reliability make it perfect for calculating your event’s sustainability including the carbon footprint.
Your go-to web-based assessment platform designed by event organizers, for event organizers.
Whether you’re planning a small internal conference or a grand trade show or festival, we’ve got you covered.
How does it work?
Simply choose your package, register, and once approved, dive into the Planet Positive Event web platform. Conduct a straightforward self-assessment of your event’s sustainability. An external assessor will then review and either confirm or seek additional details.
Once the assessment is finalized, your rating will be calculated. You’ll receive a detailed report and a certificate that align perfectly with ESRS standards as well as all other industry-relevant standards.
What we can measure, we can improve
Learn
180 practical tips on organising sustainable events
Analyse
16 evaluation matrixes (94 obligatory and 241 recommendable criteria) 1 SDG matrix to calculate the event’s regenerative ESG effects
Measure
9 forms to calculate the carbon footprint 1 carbon footprint calculator
Report
1 automatically-generated and visually appealing report that includes the event’s sustainability rating and certificate
Assess
1 external assessment by an independent expert assessor
Standardise
3 standards for subcontractors (venues, catering companies, multimedia equipment providers)
Simple steps to a sustainability rating
Selecting the type of event
with the help of a questionnaire where event organisers select the number of criteria and time needed to complete the evaluation
Access to the online app
enables event organisers to check criteria and prepare data for completing an event’s sustainability rating
Calculating the carbon footprint
of an event with the help of forms for collecting data for subcontractors and the Green Meetings Star carbon footprint calculator
Making the sustainability rating
after the event based on updated data regarding the event and the calculated carbon footprint
External evaluation & additional meeting
by independent external assessors who either confirm the data or request amendments. Additional meeting if the assessors have comments or questions
Making the final report and certificate
The final report and sustainability rating with recommendations for future improvement will be created automatically, alongside an official certificate
Simple steps to a sustainability rating
- Selecting the type– with the help of a questionnaire where event organisers select the number of criteria and time needed to complete the evaluation.
- Access to the online app– enables event organisers to check criteria and prepare data for completing an event’s sustainability rating.
- Calculating the carbon footprint– of an event with the help of forms for collecting data for subcontractors and the Green Meetings Star carbon footprint calculator.
- Calculating the sustainability rating– after the event based on updated data regarding the event and the calculated carbon footprint.
- External evaluation– by independent external assessors who either confirm the data or request the data to be amended.
- Additional meeting– if the external assessors have further comments and questions.
- The final report and certificate– The final report and sustainability rating with recommendations for future improvement will be created automatically, alongside an official certificate.
ESRS standards are a game-changer
In 2023, the European Commission accepted the first set of ESRS Standards for sustainable reporting. Thus, a new era dawned for corporate reporting, gradually еncompassing most EU companies in the future.
The number of companies obliged to write sustainability reports according to the Directive:
- Before 1 January 2024: 11,700 companies in the EU
- After 1 January 2024: 50,000 companies in the EU
- After 1 January 2025: All corporations based in the EU with over 250 employees, more than 40 million EUR income and over 20 million EUR capital
- After 1 January 2026: All EU companies trading in the stock market, including mid-sized and smaller companies.
Case Study: Conventa 2024
Name of event: Conventa
Number of attendees: 490
Type of event: In-person
Planet Positive Event debuted during Conventa 2024 which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 20-22 February 2024.
The organizers of Conventa did the self-assessment and provided all the necessary information which the external assessors then double-checked.
The results are presented in a long report which in conclusion gives the final sustainability mark of the event.
Final mark: 3.48