At the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, we are determined to continue making sustainability a core part of the way we conduct our business. To achieve this outcome, we accept and embrace our social responsibility as a corporate member of the Sydney community.

The Centre practises responsible environmental management by conservation of resources, prevention of pollution, compliance with relevant legislation and by continually leading by example in adopting environmental best practice.

Our commitment is demonstrated by:

• Implementing and maintaining an Environmental Management System that addresses the specifications of the International Standard 14001
• Ongoing compliance with relevant legislation, Codes of Practice, the requirements of the 'Green Globe' benchmark certification program and the 'Sustainability Advantage Program'
• Proactively reducing the environmental impact of the various activities held at the Centre, with an emphasis on the reduction of water and energy use and waste
• Setting measureable environmental objectives and targets
• Assessing the effectiveness of our environmental performance by periodic auditing of our system and objectives
• Creating awareness programs for our suppliers, organisers and exhibitors to identify, quantify and mitigate the environmental impact of their activities
• Communicating openly our policy and objectives to our employees, contractors, organisers, exhibitors, suppliers and the public in order to enhance their awareness of our ongoing commitment to responsible environmental management
• Providing appropriate training and resources to our employees to fulfil our environmental objectives and obligations
• Leading our industry in challenging and improving the process of resource recovery
• Encouraging and promoting the adoption of 'Green Event' initiatives at the Centre
• Creating social engagement opportunities that provide benefit to our industry and our community as a whole.

The Centre recognises the pivotal role it plays as an environmental leader and social ambassador within its industry and local community. In demonstrating our commitment to continually improve, this policy shall be reviewed annually by the Executive Committee.

Ton van Amerongen

Chief Executive

December 2009

For further information on the ecowise program and its achievements, please click on the following link: Information on the ecowise program (359.70kb)