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Cotree - CSR initiative by Sicily Events, DMC Sicily for incentives and meetings

Cotree - CSR initiative by Sicily Events, DMC Sicily for incentives and meetings

Cotree - CSR initiative by Sicily Events, DMC Sicily for incentives and meetings

Cotree - CSR initiative by Sicily Events, DMC Sicily for incentives and meetings

Cotree - CSR initiative by Sicily Events, DMC Sicily for incentives and meetings

 

Join COtree, a SicilyEvents CSR - initiative

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the responsibility of an organization for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and the environment. We take our Corporate Social Responsibility serious:

  • We 'plant trees' though COtree, to minimize our carbon footprint
  • We yearly organize a sustainable tourism day for local schools
  • We carry out and promote 'recycling initiatives'
  • We use biomass energy to heat our office
  • We create awareness to suppliers and clients by our COtree initiative

SicilyEvents invites all suppliers like hotels, transport companies, excursions providers, restaurants and catering services to list the measures they take out to produce eco friendly, save energy, join 'green' projects or do other CSR-related initiatives. You find these elements specifically mentioned in the program proposals we prepare for our clients.

SicilyEvents has initiated a CSR-project together with its preferred suppliers to compensate carbon-emissions and other environmentally unfriendly elements inherent to the MICE industry. The name COtree, refers to the co-operation between clients, intermediaries and suppliers to minimizing the carbon footprint of an event, by planting trees.

The initiative obliges SicilyEvents to plant a tree for each activity carried out in an event program that has an above average impact on the environment. We also invite our suppliers and clients on a voluntary basis to minimising the carbon footprint for the event and join the initiative; so let 1 tree become 3 trees!

During a business event there are inevitable elements that potentially harm the environment, like 4x4 excursions, Quad rides, Helicopter flights, Boat excursions to the Aeolian Islands, bus transfers. We try to minimize the impact of these activities to the environment. In order to compensate the potential harmful effects we further ask our suppliers and clients to join the COtree initiative by 'planting a tree'.

'Planting a tree' is done by a donation of Euro 20,00 per tree to the COtree fund. The fund finances purchasing, planting and maintaining olive trees, citrus trees and oak trees in the Sicilian countryside. The trees are labelled with the event and donor name. The project is managed by SicilyEvents and controlled by an external auditor.

I like to join COtree by 'planting a tree'
Don't wait for our invitation: send us an email or give us a call. We take care of planting the trees and your trees will be labelled, so you can come and visit them any time.