Walking the talk: how FIDI is taking sustainability seriously and why Magali Horbert, FIDIs Sustainability and Strategic Communications Manager, on the organisations starting steps towards greater environmental friendliness which will begin with noticeable changes to the delivery of the 2023 FIDI Conference in Bangkok T Magali Horbert, FIDIs Sustainability and Strategic Communications Manager 50 hose of you who dutifully follow FIDI on social media, read all the pages of FIDI Focus magazine, and download FIDIs reports, will have noticed that sustainability has been a recurring topic over the past year. As the world wakes up to the impact of the climate crisis, governments and individuals are taking action and FIDI wants to do its share. This is not only because it is the right thing to do: sustainabilityrelated legislation and compliance requirements will become more stringent in the very near future, and we all need to understand and adapt to this systemic shift if we want our businesses and industry to survive and thrive. FIDI has taken sustainability seriously for a long time, driven mainly by the FIDI 39 Club and its environmental initiatives and projects. While the broader industry initially perceived this as a nice-to-have side project, and did not consider it as a strategic focus point for our association, over the past two years we have noticed a shift in how the subject is treated by the public, governments and global mobility industry players. There is now a general sense of urgency, and the moving industry cannot (and definitely should not) close its eyes to this. At FIDI, we believe that we can be a driving force in making our entire industry more sustainable and that our association and our membership will come out stronger for it. With this in mind, FIDI has decided to make sustainability, in its broadest sense, one of our associations strategic focal points for the coming years and has allowed me to dedicate time to this project as an integral part of my job. FIDI will actively participate in defining the Global Mobilitys sustainability roadmap as part of the Coalition for Greener Mobility (see article on p60) and ensure that the moving sector plays a central role in this initiative. We will also continue to educate and disseminate best practices and practical guidelines to help our membership understand why, and how, to adapt their companies and processes, and how to draw benefits from going sustainable. In addition, we will be sure to lead by example, finding ways to mitigate the impact of our associations activities on the environment starting with our annual conference. Events with a smaller footprint Our industry conferences are key highlights of our year but, without doubt, also the source of one of the biggest direct environmental impacts