Structuring sustainable sport events and achieving desirable impact on urban development

This study aims to provide a reporting tool, that allows sporting event organizers who follow the ISO20121 standard to link the GRI disclosures with the SDGs targets. The Gold Coast 2018 was delivered following the standard ISO20121, which provides the requirements for an event sustainability management system. Given the exploratory nature of our study, we opted for a qualitative method, analysing the sustainability reports of the Gold Coast 2018, the XXI edition of The Commonwealth Games, which have followed the ISO20121 for the sustainable event organization and the GRI guidelines for the reporting. After analysing the sustainability reports of the Gold Coast 2018, we noticed that the event had a significant impact in reaching SDG 11s targets numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7. These impacts have been reported throughout the GRI disclosures within the sustainability reports, but where the documents refer to the SDGs reached by the event, number 11 has not been mentioned. We believe this is not enough, because we think it is necessary to provide a specific reference on where the information relating to SDGs is reported.