Supplier Engagement
Private Drama Events will:
• Review their supplier list and prioritise low carbon alternatives for transport, waste and energy.
• Create a responsible procurement policy working in partnership with key suppliers to encourage best practice minimising environmental impacts and inspiring ideas to decarbonise their own emissions.
• Where possible, switch to local suppliers to reduce transport emissions and support the local economy. All local courier suppliers will be procured from electric or human-powered vehicles.
• Ensure web and cloud hosts are using 100% renewable electricity in their Data Centres and offices. Private drama will also increase their website efficiency to save approximately 169 kgCO2e by 2022.
• Re-evaluate financial portfolios and explore changing their banking and pension fund to one that has divested from fossil fuels and arms trading.
• Move to a new office space that purchases 100% renewable energy and is equipped to monitor the GHG emissions and waste produced on site.
Waste Management
Private Drama Events will:
• Convert 50% of their landfill waste to recyclable waste and eliminate 100% of their landfill waste by moving to recyclable waste streams by 2025.
• Slash recycled waste by 80%, mainly by cutting paper purchases to save circa 1000 kgCO2e by 2023.
• Collaborate with fellow events companies to set up a sharing, renting and re-using system for re-usable events products by 2023.
Sustainable Events
Private Drama Events will:
• Work towards a Sustainable Event Management System using ISO: 20121 for Sustainable Events. This will enable them to manage future events with practical actions that help their clients reduce the environmental impacts.
• Measure the CO2e emissions of future events so they can offer their clients the option to offset the CO2e emissions while also reducing their scope 3 emissions.
• Allow employees an extra day’s holiday to travel by rail instead of air.
• Educate their team about Climate Change and reaching net zero, so that they can become advocates in their industry and beyond.