Parthen, the meeting services company, wants to operate as sustainable as possible. Therefore the company reduces and compensates all her CO2 emissions. Parthen have set up a partnership with the Climate Neutral Group (CNG), which manages the process of reducing and compensating the CO2 emissions. CNG analyzes the emissions, supports with reducing them and takes care of the compensation. “It’s very important to us to be a responsible and sustainable company”, says Wenselaar. “We deliberately choose to be climate neutral in our operations, without losing sight of the commercial aspect of business.”
 
Parthen is a service company for organizers of fairs, events and congresses. The greatest amount of CO2 emissions is caused by travelling, analyses CNG. Employees use the car and plane intensively. The total emission of 2008 combined amounted to 149.55 tons of CO2. All options to reduce this number are taken, the inevitable emission is compensated by investing through CNG in a windmill park in Taiwan (Gold Standard project). To compensate the emissions of Parthen and make the company climate neutral, a wind turbine has to be operational for 1500 hours.
 
Customers have the option of sustainability
The Parthen Group looks beyond its own company when it comes to sustainability. Every customer has the option to make all necessary operations climate neutral. For instance, the CO2 emissions that are caused by the transport of badges can be compensated. If customers choose this option, Parthen pays 50% of the costs of creating a climate neutral transport, customers the other half. CNG will analyze the total amount CO2 emissions and take care of the compensation.
 
Climate Neutral Group
CNG wants a climate neutral world; their ambition is to score 100% when it comes to creating this world. CNG helps organizations to get insight in their CO2 emissions, points out where reduction is possible and creates possibilities to compensate for the emissions. This can be done by investing in sustainable energy projects or sustainable forest projects in developing countries. Examples of congresses that were made climate neutral by CNG are the IUCN Conference 2008, GRI conference and the C40 World Port Conference.
 
Parthen the meeting services company supports local and international initiatives in the congress and event sector. Tailor made. With knowledge, technology and people. Always dedicated and positive.

In 2009 Parthen is proud sponsor of:
MPI European Meetings and Events Conference, Torino, Italy
MPI Gulf Meetings and Events Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
MPI The Netherlands Chapter, The Netherlands (Gold Sponsor)
MPI BE Conference, Antwerp, Belgium
48th ICCA Congress & Exhibition, Florence, Italy