Guidelines and checklists for organising sustainable events available

Guidelines and checklists for organising sustainable events available

What should you consider in relation to e.g. Animals, Catering and Emissions when organising a sustainable orienteering event?

A new set of guidelines and checklists, available on orienteering.sport, can help answer this question.

The IOF’s Environment and Sustainability Commission has created the tools, which consist of eight digital booklets and are available here (lower section).

The guidelines and checklists should not be read as a handbook or rules to be followed to the letter, but rather as a list of points that should be considered by organisers and adapted to the local context and event size.

Sustainable is an IOF value
“Sustainable” is one of IOF’s values ​​and IOF therefore commits itself to being, among other things, “respectful of the natural environment and promote environmental good practice”.

Furthermore, IOF is one of several hundred signatories of the UNFCCC and IOC Sports for Climate Action initiative, which aims at supporting and guiding sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.