Messeforum’s carbon neutral exhibition stand is a responsible choice

In these times, it is important to make responsible choices that do their bit for the planet in business too.

Messeforum’s exhibition stands are always carbon neutral. By going for a solution which respects the nature and ordering your exhibition stand from Messeforum Oy, you are helping to save our climate.

At Messeforum, responsibility is not just lip service, but genuine, measurable and reported. Learn more about our climate work, our responsibility, and our carbon neutral exhibition stand below.

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Choosing Messeforum’s carbon neutral exhibition stand shows that you want your engagement in trade fairs to be positive for the climate protection

Messeforum is the first exhibition stand builder in the world to always deliver carbon neutral exhibition stands. Join us in being a trailblazer, demonstrate that you are acting responsibly on climate change, and gain a competitive edge by ordering your exhibition stand from Messeforum!

We also give you a certificate verified by a reliable body to show that the greenhouse gas emissions of your stand are zero. You can use this certificate in your own branding.

Watch our video to see what our CEO Arto Varanki has to say about the carbon neutral exhibition stand.

The emissions of our carbon neutral exhibition stands are calculated in detail

Messeforum’s carbon neutral stand is founded on Messeforum’s climate strategy and detailed analysis of the emissions caused by our operations. Our partner in calculating and analysing emissions is the expert company OpenCO2net Oy, which is specialised in encouraging responsible, carbon neutral business and calculating carbon footprints.

We have worked with OpenCO2net Oy to survey the sources of emissions in designing, building and dismantling our stands. The carbon footprint of each exhibition stand we build is calculated using an automated calculator that utilizes up-to-date emission factors from the OpenCO2 emissions database. The calculations are based on emission calculation standards.

The calculation of our carbon footprint incorporates all sources of emissions, including construction materials, furniture and equipment and their transport, the electricity used in the stand, business travel involved in construction on site and transporting waste for waste treatment or for re-use when the stand is dismantled.

Energy and materials play a key role in reducing the carbon footprint

We reduce the carbon dioxide emissions caused by our stands by improving the efficiency of our use of materials, choosing low-emission materials and encouraging a circular economy. We re-use materials and furniture as far as possible, while ensuring that our exhibition stands are always stylish and of high quality.

The electricity used in our stands is always from renewable energy sources where available. The waste from dismantling our stands is sorted and processed in line with the exhibition centres’ recycling programmes.

At the same time, we are also committed to reducing our carbon footprint in all our operations, e.g. including our own office environment in which we use only renewable energy. We also favour paperless and remote work.

Responsible exhibition business

Messeforum’s values are rooted in social and environmental responsibility and honest and ethical business. The shared wellbeing of humanity as a whole is important to us and we want to shoulder our responsibility for tackling climate change. This is why our product is carbon neutral.

Our operations are guided by the UN’s sustainable development goals. We especially emphasise the goal of affecting the future wellbeing of our planet by preventing global warming. We have also signed up to the ten principles of the United Nation’s Global Compact initiative, which include responsibility in areas of environment, human rights, labour and anti-corruption, and we report yearly as required by the UN Global Compact.

UN Global Compact

From 2025, we are also committed to the SBTi (Science Based Target initiative). Its aim is to halt global warming, including by halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The initiative is one of the most important and valued tools for concrete climate work in the private sector. Messeforum aims to reduce its absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030 compared to a baseline of 2023, and to measure and reduce Scope 3 emissions.

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Exhibition stands in line with carbon neutrality standards

Messeforum’s carbon neutral stand is based on international standards that define carbon neutrality. The emissions from our business are accurately surveyed and calculated reliably using an automated calculator that utilizes up-to-date emission factors from the OpenCO2 emission database via an API. OpenCO2net has verified the operating principle of the calculator and all the emission calculations for exhibition stands. The calculation is based on the ISO 14067 standard for the carbon footprint of products.

OpenCO2net also confirms that the emissions remaining after our own emission mitigation measures are reliably offset with additionality. Thanks to our verified calculations, the stands we produce have been awarded the OpenCO2.net Carbon Neutral label. The label is validated by DNV, one of the world’s leading certification bodies.

In line with the standards, we have committed to achieving and maintaining carbon neutrality in our production. Based on ISO 14068 standard our management is committed to carbon neutrality and we have drawn up a carbon footprint management plan which we update each year in line with current standards.

We also report on the actions we have taken to reduce our emissions and on the results we have received. A link to our latest report can be found below.

Besides the emissions of our exhibition stands, we also calculate and analyze the emissions of our whole company and are constantly striving to reduce them

Carbon neutral exhibition stand

Report: carbon neutral exhibition stand

Statement of the CEO

Report: Messeforum’s carbon footprint 2024

Reliable and additional compensation with CO2esto’s emission cutter

Those carbon dioxide emissions that we cannot mitigate ourselves through our choice of materials, recycling or other means, are entirely offset for each stand through a reliable offsetting channel using CO2esto’s Emissions Cutter. CO2esto buys emission allowances out of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and keeps the purchased allowances off the market.

EU ETS is an officially monitored system in which all the major European industrial players like airlines and industrial plants and power plants must participate and buy allowances for their activity. The amount of emission allowances available in the market is limited. When we purchase the allowances, we nullify them so that they are no longer available for other companies. Thus, another operator in the EU, for example the big industrial enterprises who can not buy as much of emissions any longer as before, must reduce its emissions and invest accordingly in new technologies with lower emissions in order to be able to continue its operations. Thus, along with our actions, emissions in Europe are reduced genuinely, additionally and reliably.