Portland, Ore.-based MeetGreen, formerly Meeting Strategies Worldwide, has been awarded the British Standard Sustainable Events Certification 2009 (BS 8901:2009), making it the first North American event management firm to achieve the distinction.

"Certification is an investment we wanted to make on behalf of our clients," MeetGreen Principal Amy Spatrisano, CMP, said in a statement. "For years, they have looked to us to set the bar for green meetings and events. BS8901:2009 certification is one more step in continuing to raise that bar substantially."

Introduced in 2007 by BSI British Standards, the United Kingdom's national standards organization, BS 8901 establishes a generic framework through which event organizers, suppliers and venues can plan and manage green events of all sizes and types.

Although the U.S. Green Building Council this spring became the first North American organization to be certified under BS 8901:2007, MeetGreen is the first to be recognized under BS 8901:2009, which includes several new, more rigorous standards and is currently pending approval to become part of the prestigious International Standards Organization (ISO), which is the world's most widely recognized certification body.

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