About the Course

This Sustainable Meeting Professional Certificate course is designed for those who make sustainability a priority and wish to improve sustainability efforts in planning their meetings and events. It is a perfect fit for organizations involved in hosting, organizing or planning a meeting or event for themselves or others. Sustainable planning is applicable to any organizational meeting from board meetings and training sessions to annual conferences and global conventions.

A key benefit of participating in the SMPC course is learning about the comprehensive nature of the SMPP® system. Knowledge of the SMPP system will help you plan sustainable events immediately. It provides education, training and implementation steps to begin planning.

Participants of this course receive:

• CMP Clock Hours: 4 - Strategic Domain: Strategic Planning

Note: Instructor-Led In-Person or Online Self-Paced

What You'll Learn

• How to adopt a comprehensive system of sustainable planning policies and procedures

• How to plan an event that meets ISO 20121 and APEX/ASTM sustainability standards

• How to plan an event with the required criteria for GRI EOSS reporting

• Demonstrate they are implementing sustainable policies and procedures
  

• Demonstrate transparency by listing in the SMPP® Directory

• Self-certify to the ISO 20121 standards

• Self-certify to the APEX/ASTM standards
  

• Meet the criteria for SMPP® 3rd party Certification by iCompli
  

• Meet the criteria for ISO 20121 3rd party Certification by iCompl.
  

Online Course Overview

The SMPC course presents the following educational material from the SMPP® on-line system. The course prepares students to implement the Sustainable Meeting Planning Program® upon completion.

• Sustainability Policy for Meeting Planning

• Sustainable Meeting Planning Standards: ISO, APEX/ASTM & GRI

• Sustainability Impacts of Meetings and Events

• Sustainable Meeting Planning Guidelines, Goals and Objectives

• Compliance, Measurement and Reporting

• Sustainability checklists and scoring forms

• Organizational Implementation of Sustainable Meeting Planning Program

• Sustainability Purchasing, RFP/Contract Clauses and Data Collection

• Event-Specific Sustainability Requirements and Procedures