Messe Frankfurt has passed the audit for the environmental management system in accordance with the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS).
With the EMAS validation, which also meets the requirements of environmental management norm ISO 14001, the company, which organises the Ambiente show, commits itself to continually improving its environmental performance.
The certificate was officially presented last month to Messe Frankfurt president and ceo, Wolfgang Marzin, by Melanie Nolte, vice president of the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
Wolfgang commented: “Last year, Messe Frankfurt decided of its own accord to introduce an environmental management system in accordance with the EMAS Regulation. This means that we now have an internationally recognised instrument with which we can optimise our ecological sustainability target architecture and demonstrate our progress in a consistently transparent and measurable way.
“In this way, we can take the next verifiable steps to reaching our ambitious environment-related corporate objectives by 2040 and can usher in the transformation towards a sustainable trade fair sector.”
Melanie added: “The Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce has been accompanying companies through the EMAS certification process for many years. We are particularly delighted that a renowned company like Messe Frankfurt, which has always played such a central role in Frankfurt life, has now been awarded this environmental certificate and is demonstrating its future viability to impressive effect.”
EMAS was developed by the EU and is geared towards companies which continually improve their environmental performance on their own initiative. Companies which adopt the EMAS environmental management system commit to recording all environmental aspects of their company, and conform with all environmental laws.
To meet the requirements, Messe Frankfurt drew up an environmental policy and set ambitious targets. These are included in the the target to be climate-neutral at the Frankfurt base by 2040.
Pictured – (from left to right): Patricia Borna (managing director corporate communications and chief spokesperson, IHK Frankfurt), Melanie Nolte (vice president, IHK Frankfurt), Wolfgang Marzin (president and chief executive officer, Messe Frankfurt), Dr Thomas Steigleder (managing director innovation and environment, IHK Frankfurt) and Lennart Schleicher (managing director, Envex environmental verification)
