Vegas venues aim to take leading role in climate action

From electronics to home building, the Las Vegas Convention Centre hosts some 50 conventions annually – and claims it is setting the climate reporting agenda as tradeshow partners and event customers can opt to receive Scope 3 visibility reports as part of their event recaps.

nZero reckons this level of detail helps event organisers better understand their carbon contribution and identify efficiencies that will lower costs, encouraging event space users to focus on their footprint and implement reduction initiatives as they plan for the future.

“Better data is an essential part of our sustainability efforts. Reducing our carbon footprint throughout our convention centre is not only critical to our community but to our building partners and customers as well”

The Las Vegas Convention Centre, which is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), reports that it has additional sustainability improvement projects underway, including submetering installations in major conference halls, to further ensure data collection is hyper-accurate.

The partnership with Allegiant Stadium, which is inclusive of the Las Vegas Raiders – one of the first professional sports teams in America to track its carbon emissions, expands nZero’s reporting into the sports sector.

Through the partnership, nZero will be delivering highly granular carbon emissions data that enables the Las Vegas Raiders and Allegiant Stadium to develop more sustainable policies, implement decarbonisation efforts, and use their influence to inspire climate action.

Actionable climate goals

The team and stadium will use nZero to set new standards for transparent, accurate, and comprehensive monitoring and measurement of their carbon emissions across all Scopes. Together, the Las Vegas Raiders, Allegiant Stadium and nZero will create actionable climate goals and a detailed decarbonisation plan so they have a clear blueprint for reducing their carbon impact, ensure greener future events, with the aim of inspiring other teams and stadiums to follow suit.

“As a recent addition to the Southern Nevada community, we have a unique opportunity to implement sustainable practices early in the operations of our organisation,” said Chris Sotiropulos, vice president of stadium operations for the Las Vegas Raiders.

“It’s important to have visibility into our carbon emissions, understand where they are coming from, and how we can decrease them moving forward. This will be impactful not only for us, but for others in the world of sports looking for examples of sustainable business in our industry. We’re excited to be working with nZero for insight and guidance on this important topic.”

“It’s important to have visibility into our carbon emissions, understand where they are coming from, and how we can decrease them moving forward”

“We’re able to bring nZero’s data and insights not only to our new partners but also their customers and associates, providing more data transparency that will further everyone’s commitment to a more environmentally friendly Las Vegas,” added Adam Kramer, chief executive officer at nZero.

“We look forward to helping major players in the Las Vegas market meet their environmental goals and take climate change head-on.”

nZero is a near real-time (NRT) carbon accounting and management platform that collects, analyses and produces the world’s most accurate emissions and insights data to help NGOs, government agencies and organisations accelerate their journey to net zero.

nZero utilises a proprietary carbon data model to capture and automate all emission points from an organisations’ operational footprint at the highest granularity possible and provides 24/7 analysis of scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. nZero claims its accurate, first-party, contextual data helps clients understand changes hour-by-hour, access metrics to reach climate goals and reduce operational and capital costs.