The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress (WCC), which was held in Honolulu, Hawaii in September of 2016 was awarded the ISO 20121 Sustainable Event Certification. Sustainable Pacific and iCompli, a division of BPA Worldwide, performed the independent third-party certification of IUCN’s compliance with the ISO 20121 standard. ISO offers guidance for managing an event’s “triple bottom line”--environmental, social, and economic im