SUSTAINABILITY | Hospitalar 2025

HOSPITALAR SUSTAINABILITY

Hospitalar connects the healthcare sector with sustainability!

As an event that has connected people for over 30 years, we understand the weight and importance of the impact we create in the world. In this context, we are leaders in various actions aimed at promoting social responsibility.

We are committed to ensuring that Hospitalar has a positive impact on people and the planet. We want to play a key role in helping the entire healthcare community improve its own sustainability by connecting people with the networks and knowledge they need to help address the major challenges of the future.

As part of our commitment, we are focused on three pillars of sustainability:

1. Inspiring sustainability

Incorporate sustainability into our brand by 2025 to inspire our sector to be more sustainable, promoting the achievement of the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.

Ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education, and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Ensure reliable, sustainable, modern, and affordable access to energy for all.

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

Ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns.

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

2. Environmental Responsibility

Become carbon neutral, halve our waste, and help our customers reduce their carbon footprint by 2025, as a stepping stone to achieve zero waste and net-zero carbon by 2030 or sooner.

Reduction of printed materials

Credential recycling

Vegetarian and vegan food options

Selective collection

Printed materials with FSC certification

Evaluate the sustainable practices of the exhibiting companies

LED lamps

Free transportation/Express route to the event

Encouragement of carpooling among colleagues attending the event

3. Social Responsibility

Contribute at least 1% of pre-tax profits to community groups by 2025, promote diversity and inclusion, and create value for our host cities.

Partnership with the NGO Safrater, which supports families in high social vulnerability.

Suppliers with a focus on social inclusion

Relaxation area with hydration and massages

Support for nonprofit social institutions

Nursing room

Highlights 2024

Express Route

Sustainable Path for Hospitalar

We provided free transportation from strategic points in São Paulo, such as: Santos-Imigrantes station, Plaza Sul Shopping parking lot, and Congonhas Airport, or the public could organize their own van or bus caravan, and use the Express Route, a path with exclusive access and greater efficiency in boarding and disembarking for all visitors.

Better Stands

Better Stands is a program by Informa Markets, the organizer of Hospitalar, aimed at achieving zero waste in stands by 2030. The initiative seeks to encourage exhibiting companies to move away from using disposable (single-use) stands and prioritize the use of reusable structures.

By making their stand projects sustainable, builders and exhibitors will be recognized with Bronze, Silver, and Gold seals at their stands during Hospitalar, and after the event, they will receive a digital certificate based on their respective levels of progress.

Social Institutions

We want to have a positive impact on our local community, and in our 2024 edition, we had the opportunity to make a social impact through support for institutions such as:

Doctors Without Borders
Jô Clemente Institute
Soul Alegría

Care and Rebuild Campaign for Rio Grande do Sul

Hospitalar expresses solidarity and does its part to help during this difficult time.

The Hospitalar Fair, in collaboration with the Mixed Parliamentary Front in Defense of Health Services, led by Federal Deputy Pedro Westhalen, and the main institutions in the sector, launched a solidarity campaign to support hospitals and health services affected by the floods in Rio Grande do Sul. Called 'Care and Rebuild: Health Sector Mobilization for RS,' the campaign aims to collect donations of supplies, equipment, and hospital furniture.

In addition to the campaign, part of the proceeds from the sale of tickets for the 2024 edition were donated to the flood victims. We also supported various solidarity initiatives in the sector.

Event infrastructure

At Hospitalar 2024, we had several initiatives that contributed to the sustainability of the planet, the sector, and the care of our audience. Let's take a look at some of them:

Totems exclusively focused on sustainability;
80% of the carpet is reused, and only 20% is new;
An app with access to content and maps, reducing paper waste;
Ambulances available 24/7;
Constant maintenance of the carpets to prevent accidents.

How to help encourage and improve sustainability at Hospitalar?

As a visitor

Consider how you will get to the event and whether you can avoid flights or use low carbon footprint transportation, such as public transport, free shuttles, or carpooling;
Recycle your waste on-site and at your hotel, whenever possible;
Support our charity partners: Doctors Without Borders, Jô Clemente Institute, and Soul Alegría;
Consider opting for vegetarian and vegan food options and avoid food waste;
Take only the gifts or brochures you truly need and will use, and consider if there are digital alternatives;
Consider the environmental credentials of the hotel when deciding where to stay. Meet Hospitalar's official travel agency: [email protected].

As an exhibitor

Ensure that your stand can be reused by your company or by your contracted stand builder;
Think about the waste your stand will generate and try to minimize it as much as possible. Make sure that unavoidable waste is recycled;
Choose LED lighting and other energy-efficient equipment for your stand, and ensure you turn off your equipment at the end of the day;
Optimize your shipments by consolidating them and choosing logistics companies with strong sustainability credentials;
Reduce paper distribution by going digital and purchase sustainably certified paper when printing is necessary;
Get involved in the numerous initiatives and conversations during the event that aim to facilitate and inspire the sustainable development of your sector;
Inspire the sustainable development of your sector by promoting your company and the sustainability credentials of your products and services.

Sustainability at Informa Markets

LEARN MORE

Hospitalar is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group. Sustainability at Informa focuses on the long-term impacts we have on customers, colleagues, the communities in which we work, and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed the FasterForward approach to sustainable business.

Informa's goal is to become an increasingly sustainable business with a positive impact. Through the FasterForward program, we are embedding sustainability into everything we do and leveraging opportunities to help our clients and markets do the same.

FasterForward is a structured program in three parts, with ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, covering Informa's business operations, our brands and products, and our broader impact on the community.

When it comes to sustainability, we are moving faster.

Informa PLC is ranked first in the global media sector in the prestigious 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.