Paris 2024: A model for greener Games
With a bold ambition to halve greenhouse gas emissions, the Paris Olympics and Paralympics are raising the bar for future international events
INTERNATIONAL sporting events are hardly associated with sustainability – not when organising a massive event successfully is in itself a tall order on many fronts. For the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics, we’re talking about hosting and housing 15,000 athletes and potentially 13 million spectators across 35 venues in France for a month.
Against the odds, can Paris 2024 be a new model for sustainability for future Games? The organisers certainly hope so with their bold plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 per cent, as compared with the average emissions of the London (2012) and Rio (2016) Games.
Undoubtedly, keeping GHG emissions in check adds layers of complexity to an already mammoth undertaking. But this is just what the Paris 2024 committee did, understanding the Games’ potential emissions before the winning bid was announced in 2017, and setting a carbon budget more than five years before the event.
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