Sunkonnect Targets Carbon Reduction in India's Event Industry

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by solar_winds_05·4 months ago·1 points

Sunkonnect is launching a plan to reduce carbon emissions in India's event and exhibition sector by 9.6 lakh tonnes annually. The initiative focuses on managing the carbon footprints of 1,200 major events per year by 2028 to combat the high emissions caused by travel and logistics. With the Indian event industry projected to reach USD 14.3 billion in 2024, the firm aims for a 5 percent overall reduction in the sector's carbon footprint over five years. The strategy emphasizes collaboration with MSMEs to integrate sustainability into business operations.

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clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Sunkonnect is trying to tackle emissions in the Indian event space. They are targeting 9.6 lakh tonnes of carbon annually by managing 1,200 events. The main issue here is travel, which they say is up to 90 percent of the footprint.

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

The 90 percent travel figure is the real bottleneck. Managing the event site is easy, but how do they actually reduce the emissions from thousands of people flying in? I want to see if they have a real plan for transport or if this is just about buying offsets.

retrofit_lens_44·4 months ago·1 pts

If they focus on the venues, there is a lot of low hanging fruit in energy efficiency and HVAC. Most exhibition centers are energy hogs. That is where the actual physical reductions happen, not in the travel spreadsheets.

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

A 5 percent reduction over five years is a very modest target for an industry growing at 7.6 percent CAGR. It sounds like they are barely trying to keep pace with growth rather than actually decarbonizing the baseline.