{"id":575,"date":"2025-07-24T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=575"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:13:53","slug":"achieving-our-silver-green-meetings-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/07\/24\/achieving-our-silver-green-meetings-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving our silver Green Meetings Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that we have achieved a Silver Green Meetings Award, recognising our commitment to sustainability and our efforts to deliver environmentally responsible conferences and events.<\/p>\n<p>Overseen by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.green-tourism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Tourism<\/a>, the silver certification has been awarded to our event management service and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/venues\/darwin-conference-suite\">Darwin Conference Suite<\/a> following their work to raise Kent&#8217;s sustainability standards.<\/p>\n<p>The criteria for this award is divided into three pillars: caring for people, places, and the planet. It takes into account accessibility, inclusion and community engagement alongside operational areas.<\/p>\n<p>Having earned this certification, we&#8217;ll continue to work with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sustainability\">Kent Sustainability<\/a> team to apply assessment recommendations and aim for Gold-level certification.<\/p>\n<p>Head to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/sustainability\">sustainability page<\/a> to find out more and read the full press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/sustainability-environment-and-natural-resources\/36927\/kent-achieves-silver-green-meetings-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that we have achieved a Silver Green Meetings Award, recognising our commitment to sustainability and our efforts to deliver environmentally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/07\/24\/achieving-our-silver-green-meetings-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82915,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291428,291718,291562,180048,291715,957,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}