The Green Meeting Industry Council is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization.

The Council is a membership-based professional organization which provides educational resources to planners, suppliers, and venues seeking to meet the ever-rising standards consumers set for sustainable meetings.

The Green Meeting Industry Council promotes green practices globally by offering educational programs in the form of training workshops and online resources. The Council is in the process of partnering with educational institutions to develop an accredited curriculum at the university level for green meetings.

The Green Meeting Industry Council serves as an informational resource to our members. Council board members are involved in a network expanding from North America to raise awareness and develop practices for green meetings.

The Green Meeting Industry Council is partnering to support and develop environmentally responsible certification schemes for a variety of meeting industry components.
Mission

The Council seeks to transform the global meetings industry through sustainable practices which incorporate environmental considerations throughout all stages of a meeting in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment. The Council will promote environmentally responsible strategies through the collaborative efforts of meeting industry stakeholders, balancing economic, environmental, and community objectives. Your support is an integral component of our success.
Vision

According to the Green Meeting Industry Council a green meeting incorporates environmental considerations throughout all stages of the meeting in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.

By the year 2020 the Green Meeting Industry Council envisions a green meeting as an activity that:

• has zero net environmental effect.
• achieves full integration of environmental responsibility into return on investment analysis for the global meetings industry.
• is an accepted and standard industry practice, while 'brown' meetings are a thing of the past.
• achieves economic and strategic business goals and minimizes and eliminates environmental impacts and positively contributes to the environment and host communities.
• meets minimum green meeting practices as set out by the GMIC.

To help move closer to this vision the Green Meeting Industry Council is working to provide meeting professionals with resources, education, and certification opportunities.