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Did you know that the global production of agricultural crops accounts for 70% of the water use and that 31% of the total CO2 emissions in the EU-25 come from food?!

Rethinking the way you cater is crucial in reducing your ecological footprint. The city of Ghent puts .BE SUSTAINABLE into practice. Experts in footprinting and vegetarian food, CO2Logic, Ecolife and EVA helped the cooks to make sustainable choices. The walking dinner is vegetarian with seasonal, local, fresh and, as much as possible, non-processed ingredients. This allows in general for a reduction of 85% of the greenhouse gas emissions and 30 % of the water footprint. The results and tips on how to improve your foodprint are presented at this event.

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MOBILITYMOBILITYMobility often has the highest environmental impact at international events. Transport of the participants contributes to the climate impact. Ecoprocura ‘14 wants to reduce the impact of mobility to a maximum.

We motivate participants to use environmental transport to come to the Ghent (train rather than airplane). Bikes are available to all participants to drive from the hotel to the venue and vice-versa. For the touristic visits, electrical boats are used. We choose suppliers from a range within 20 km from the venue.

VENUEVENUETo reduce the impact of Ecoprocura ’14, we aimed to make this conference as sustainable as possible:

The ICC Conference Hall has been awarded with the green key label. We use cradle to cradle inspired stands in the sustainable market. Built from re-used, recycled and non-toxic materials and with energy-e�cient lighting and low impact printing. Bamboo is chosen for our pitch constructions. Did you know that bamboo is the most sustainable timber? We avoid all individual packages of the catering products. And last but not least, we made a resolute choice to work closely together with social entrepreneurs.