Responsible Purchasing – Workshop for Event Organizers

Serious Topics

Purchases related to activities and events (equipment, food, communications, etc.) have significant environmental and social impacts. This workshop will help you adapt your practices to more sustainable solutions suited to your circumstances. Objectives • Understand what responsible purchasing means in the context of events and its impacts • Identify more responsible alternatives • Find concrete, practical solutions Programme As a group, you will identify your current purchasing practices and their impacts (resources, waste, transport, production conditions, etc.), as well as the constraints you encounter when making purchases. Together, we will look for simple, practical solutions that could be implemented to reduce these impacts, such as: • choosing responsible suppliers • reducing single-use items • reuse and the circular economy • pooling equipment • group purchasing between associations