ACP strives to minimize negative impacts on the environment and promote sustainability at its Internal Medicine Meeting. Efforts by ACP and its site partner at the 2025 Internal Medicine Meeting include:
- Eliminating or significantly reducing printed materials such as the Scientific Program, newspaper, handouts, brochures and other materials and offering digital materials and electronic delivery of information.
- All meeting badge lanyards are made from recycled plastic.
- Eliminating previous meeting offerings such as tote bags.
- When feasible, retaining signage for future meetings.
- New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center:
- Is LEED Gold Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.
- Overhauled lighting and air conditioning systems — replaced 5,000 light fixtures and changed out two cooling towers — to increase efficiency and reduce energy use.
- The building has 87 water bottle filling stations installed, saving the equivalent of more than 300,000 plastic water bottles from landfills.
- Upgraded 37 sets of restrooms with low-flow fixtures to cut down on water use.
- Newly-added 7.5-acre pedestrian park includes 200 trees and features rain gardens to help manage storm water.
- 1.9 million square feet of traditional roofing has been replaced with a new, energy-efficient “cool roof” system to help divert heat away from the building and neighborhood.
- The Food service provider, Sodexo, regularly donates food to local organizations, including substance abuse treatment facility Bethel Colony.
- Sodexo also composts organic kitchen waste, and most serving-ware is plastic-free and made of biodegradable material.
Get more details about the sustainability efforts at New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.