Standard BNQ 9700-253 Sustainable Development – Responsible Event Management
Events often have a negative impact on the environment: excessive use of paper, a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, and so on. For that reason, today’s event planners are interested in responsible management, which also happens to give a significant boost to the image and promotion of an event. With this in mind, BNQ 9700-253 defines responsible event management and establishes technical rules based on the 16 principles of the Sustainable Development Act of Québec. It enables planners, service providers, participants and users to shrink the natural and human environmental footprint of events and enhance their economic and social spinoffs. This initiative by the Réseau des femmes en environnement or its Conseil québécois des évènements écoresponsables (CQEER) is a nationally and internationally recognized benchmark available to guide planners in making a range of environmentally responsible choices, from supplier selection to waste management.
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BNQ 9700-253
Sustainable Development - Responsible Event Management
REVISION IN PROGRESS (expected date for the new edition: June 2024)
Festivals et événements Québec et Festival d'été de Québec
Ms. Marie-Claude Breton
Ms. Daniela Caputo
Montreal Event Planner
Ms. Jacqueline Caron
Centre de services partagés du Québec Direction de la gestion des événements
Ms. Julie-Anne Chayer
CIRAIG (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
Ms. Isabelle Coutu
Gendron Communication
Ms. Marie-Claude Dubois
Tourisme Sherbrooke
Ms. Sylvie Giroux
Ville de Montréal Division des événements publics
Ms. Jinny Gosselin
Ville de Québec
Ms. Jade Guilbert
Hôtel des Seigneurs
Ms. Véronique Jampierre
Fonds d'action québécois en développement durable (FAQDD)
Ms. Catherine Noppen
Institut de Tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec
Mr. Marc Poirier
Société du Centre des congrès de Québec
Ms. Sylvie Théberge
Festivals et Événements Québec
Ms. Carole Villeneuve
Recyc-Québec
Ms. Caroline Voyer
Réseau des femmes en environnement
Certification Offer
By certifying their events, planners can claim to promote sustainable development and project a positive public image. The BNQ certification program enables event planners to: Have third parties recognize their responsible event management and compliance with the practices set out in BNQ 9700-253; Prove the firmness of their commitment to sustainable development; Produce events that meet requirements but also uphold the principles of sustainable development. To start with, the program includes general requirements such as: the planner’s management system and commitment, evaluation and documentation, a responsible management contract, event-related documents and classification-level compliance. However, it also includes 56 special requirements covering five different fields: supplier selection, equipment, power and water management, waste management, food selection and transportation choices. It enables organizers to determine their event’s classification level of a possible 5 levels, the fifth being the most environmentally responsible.
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FRN
BNQ 9700-953
Développement durable - Gestion responsable d'évènements - Protocole de certification
Joël Rabesa, agr., PMP Program Leader Bureau de normalisation du Québec Tel.: 418-652-2238 / 1-800-386-5114, ext. 2324
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By certifying their events, planners can claim to promote sustainable development and project a positive public image. The BNQ certification program enables event planners to: Have third parties recognize their responsible event management and compliance with the practices set out in BNQ 9700-253; Prove the firmness of their commitment to sustainable development; Produce events that meet requirements but also uphold the principles of sustainable development. To start with, the program includes general requirements such as: the planner’s management system and commitment, evaluation and documentation, a responsible management contract, event-related documents and classification-level compliance. However, it also includes 56 special requirements covering five different fields: supplier selection, equipment, power and water management, waste management, food selection and transportation choices. It enables organizers to determine their event’s classification level of a possible 5 levels, the fifth being the most environmentally responsible.
