CILIPS23 x CILIPSGoGreen
Category: #CILIPSGoGreen, Blog
Building on the framework offered by the CILIPS Carbon Neutrality Plan and especially our 2023 mid-year review, our growing #CILIPSGoGreen resource collection, and the success of our steps in making last year’s conference more environmentally friendly, we are committed to ensuring that our 2023 Annual Conference goes even further in being as sustainable as it is inspirational.
In 2022, we worked with our delegates to reduce printing, promote sustainable travel, minimize waste and more to achieve a 50%+ reduction in our conference carbon footprint: shrinking our impact from an estimated 2.1tCO2e to 1tCO2e, with the residual offset via a donation to our friends at Keep Scotland Beautiful. In 2023, let’s work together to achieve even more for our environment!
Our sustainability plans for CILIPS23 include:
- Our first exclusively digital programme (with alternative formats available for accessibility)
- A reduced food/water waste strategy and a locally-produced vegetarian lunch menu, in conjunction with the Dundee Apex Hotel
- A car sharing scheme for delegates
- Signposting to electric car charging points
- Recycled lanyards, carbon captured name badges (including a tree-planting donation to the Woodland Trust) and other sustainably sourced items – including the now iconic CILIPS library garden seeds! – in our optional delegate gift bags
- An environmentally friendly Conference Exhibitor Challenge.
Stay tuned for further reflections coming soon on all the ways in which CILIPS23 meets CILIPSGoGreen, including in our much-anticipated parallel session Going Green at Glasgow Women’s Library.
For now, please continue to check out our regularly updated resource collection and remember to join us in the Green Libraries Network: working together for people and planet.