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This pledge acts as the perfect next step in our road to a greener industry and we are confident in our own goal of becoming a net zero business by 2025.”. The “Net Zero Carbon Events“ pledge is the result of global collaboration throughout the events industry. This work has to be concluded by the end of 2023.
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