Event Sustainability Plan

You plan the environmental side of one technical event: how big its footprint is, which levers move it, what data proves it, and what the organizers may honestly say in public. Three artifacts come out:

• The plan - screening estimate, boundary, ranked levers, data-capture deadlines.
• The public sustainability page - what the event does and does not claim.
• The post-event report skeleton - the inventory the plan promised.

Attendee travel decides this subject. Published conference studies, all modelled or survey-extrapolated, put travel at roughly 80-97% of the total, most of it from the minority who fly long-haul. Catering, waste and swag are real but second-order on carbon, and they are exactly where greenwashing hides. Every output keeps that order visible.

What you own and what you hand off

This skill sets targets, constraints and numbers. Siblings take the decisions those numbers inform: