Paragon - live green events

Some people spend a lifetime campaigning for a better world. 

In comparison, our months of intensive research in preparation for our transition to a more environmentally responsible way of working, seems pretty insignificant. 

However, we had to start somewhere and we’re proud to have been one of the first agencies to address CSR and also to have been one of the agencies invited to comment on the drafting of BS8901 - Sustainable Event Management. 

Green event production is not a bolt-on addition to an existing service - it’s an adoption of attitude and new ways of working.  It’s taking an holistic view of an event and including ‘impact on the environment’ as another area to be considered as a matter of course in the event management process.  It means producing policies, systems and tools to manage and measure. 

We’ve learned some lessons and we’re still learning.

We launched OnePlanet - Sustainable Event Solutions back in November 2006 as a brand identity to our new way of working, but realised not long after that in fact it is our own PARAGON brand that is only identity we need.   

Now many more agencies and suppliers are taking CSR seriously and putting systems and initiatives in place. 

It’s fair to say Clients are not yet banging down our doors to stage greener events.  It’s more a question of us inviting them to knock.  But, it’s only a question of time and the more we shout about successful events produced with a more positive environmental impact, the stronger the desire to stage them will grow. 

Val Payne
Director