The Paris Global Sports Industry Summit, with event partners, is committed to educating the industry on the best environmental and corporate social responsibility practices available and to doing all we can to “green” our exhibition, wherever possible. The Paris Global Sports Industry Summit Corporate Responsibility Project has been developed to give both delegates and exhibitors an opportunity to increase their awareness and knowledge of environmental and social responsibility within the sport industry.

- To educate the industry on responsible travel through our partners
- To reduce paper consumption in the office and on site during the exhibition
- To use recyclable, recycled or sustainable source paper, whenever possible when producing Global Sports industry Summit materials
- To recycle materials produced by Global Sports Industry Summit, wherever possible
- Ensure venue food and beverage providers use china and washable cutlery where ever possible
- To arrange collection of flowers to be given to homes and hospitals in Paris
- Using energy efficient exhibition halls
- Ensuring the halls can be reached by public transport - Using halls that have a recycling policy

Each year Global Sports Industry Summit will introduces new green initiatives to strengthen its green credentials. To date initiatives include:

- The badge lanyards will be made from plant silk, an organic material manufactured from the waste stems of grain crops. No chemicals
are used in the process and the fabric is biodegradable.
- The use of hydroelectricity for all power during the exhibition including build-up and breakdown. In 2010 Global Sports Industry
Summit will be the first event in the sports industry to offer green energy - hydroelectric power - to its exhibitors.
- Recycled and recyclable paper badges coated in corn-starch laminate.
- Recycled and recyclable luggage tags coated in corn-starch laminate.
- An anti-idling policy for Global Sports Industry Summit buses.
- The use of bio-diesel buses for 20% of the hosted buyer transfers.
- Reusable recyclable polypropylene visitor bags and jute bags.
- Encouraging hosted buyers to travel by train where possible.
- 95% polypropylene carpets are used in the exhibition hall. Polypropylene is a derivative of oil and is recyclable. The Global Sports
Industry Summit carpets are recycled following the show and made into either carpet again or other polypropylene products.
- All coffee and tea provided in seminar rooms will be fair trade and sugar will be provided in sugar bowls instead of in individual packaging.

Visitors, exhibitors and hosted buyers can contribute to making Global Sports Industry Summit even more environmentally friendly by:

- Using the Paris walking map published in the Global Sports Industry Summit Show Guide and Floorplan.
- Visiting the Corporate Responsibility Centre to pick up advice on how to make meetings and events greener.
- Using the recycling bins placed throughout the hall.
- Carbon offsetting their flights to Paris.
- Posting their brochures back to the office rather than throwing them away.