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Olympic Committee seeks to build a healthier planet through sport
Olympic rings. Olympic Committee seeks to build a healthier planet through sport
This year we celebrate World Environment Day as the world is grappling with the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Largely linked to environmental degradation, this crisis has been a stark reminder of how important it is to respect and protect our natural world.
As part of its response to the crisis, the IOC has reaffirmed its commitment to minimizing its ecological footprint, protecting the environment and raising awareness of its importance:
Through the Olympic Games: from carbon neutral to “climate positive”.
As a leader of the Olympic Movement at large: influencing change.
The IOC President in his recent letter to the Olympic Movement said:
As challenging and difficult as the Chile Mobile Number List circumstances may seem at the moment, if we draw the right lessons from the current situation, we can shape our future to even strengthen the relevance of our Olympic Movement in the world. We must therefore further push for Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms, particularly with respect to sustainability, to address this crisis.
The IOC's environmental journey began almost 30 years ago at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Four years later, a clause on the importance of the environment and sustainable development was included in the Olympic Charter. Today, sustainability is a key element of the Olympic Agenda 2020:
The IOC reform program introduced in 2014 has become our guiding principle: when making decisions, we do everything possible to maximize their positive impact and minimize any negative impact in the social, economic and environmental spheres.
As an organization: innovation of the Olympic House and hydrogen
The roadmap begins at home. Opened in 2019, the IOC headquarters, Olympic House, is one of the most sustainable buildings in the world, having received three of the most prestigious sustainable building certifications.
Solar panels on the building's roof produce electricity, while heating and cooling are generated using water from nearby Lake Geneva.
Olympic House also houses eight hydrogen-powered vehicles and a hydrogen fueling station, one of the first of its kind in Switzerland. Provided by global Olympic partner Toyota, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) emit only water vapor and air.
Already carbon neutral thanks to its official carbon partner Dow, the IOC now aims to be climate positive. This will include planting, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, an Olympic Forest, which will form part of Africa's Great Green Wall initiative.
More than just planting trees to capture carbon, the Olympic Forest will provide a wide range of social benefits for local wildlife and communities.
Through the Olympic Games: from carbon neutral to “climate positive”
As one of the most anticipated sporting events, the Olympic Games offer a great opportunity to raise global awareness of environmental problems and present innovative solutions.
The IOC has worked hand in hand with the organizers of the Olympic Games, providing tools and expertise to help ensure that the only impact the Games have on the environment is a positive one. This includes guidance on sustainable sourcing and carbon management, among others.
Olympic Agenda 2020 radically changed the way the Games are organized, making them less complex and more sustainable. One of its requirements, for example, calls for maximum use of existing and temporary sites, and construction of new sites only where there is a clear legacy plan.
From the Paris 2024 bid phase onwards, partners at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) analyze Olympic candidates' plans for venues and infrastructure, helping to identify any potential environmental risks before they are implemented. choose a new Olympic host. By doing this early in the process, they can make the necessary changes before it's too late.
However, embracing the Olympic spirit, the committee constantly wants to reach higher with its goals.
In March 2020, they announced that starting in 2030, all Games will be “climate positive.” The benefits they create for the climate will outweigh their impact.
Host cities must, by contract with the IOC, minimize and offset their direct and indirect carbon emissions. They will also need to implement durable zero-carbon solutions for the Olympic Games and beyond.
Ahead of 2030, the Organizing Committees are already taking measures to reduce emissions and reduce their waste. Tokyo 2020 is expected to achieve carbon neutrality through a range of measures, including renewable energy and zero-emission vehicles provided by global Olympic partner Toyota.
Beijing 2022 plans to power all its locations with renewable energy. And Paris 2024 has built its entire Games concept around sustainability, aiming to build just one sports venue and reduce overall carbon emissions by 50% compared to previous Games.
As leader of the broader Olympic movement: influential change
The IOC catalyzes change by working with a variety of entities across the Olympic Movement. These include International Sports Federations, National Olympic Committees, athletes and the wider sports community.
They offer technical support and publish guidelines to support them in their sustainability journey. The Sustainability Fundamentals series, for example, provides guidance to the Olympic Movement and the wider sporting community on complex issues such as tackling plastic pollution, sustainable sourcing and climate action.
Through partnership with IUCN, a series of Sport and Biodiversity guides were developed to show how the sporting community can avoid potential negative impacts on nature while contributing to and improving its conservation.
More recently, the Mountain Summit Group convened by the IOC has brought together 11 International Sports Federations to protect the mountain environments on which their sports depend.
They are also supporting athletes in their efforts to inspire and encourage fans around the world to live more sustainable lives. The Big Plastic Pledge, launched in 2019 by Olympic champion Hannah Mills, has so far united 2,500 athletes and sports fans in their mission to eradicate single-use plastic in sport.
Larger collaborations, such as the United Nations Sports Climate Action Framework, use the power of sport to help scale up global efforts to address climate change. Co-created by the IOC and UN Climate Change in 2018, the Framework now includes more than 125 sports organizations that have committed to developing a climate action agenda for sport.
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