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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

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While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly.

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

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McKinsey & Company declared carbon neutrality in 2018 and has set emissions reductions in line with the Paris Agreement, including a 60 percent reduction in purchased energy by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050. Another business consulting heavyweight, Bain & Company, was declared carbon neutral by Natural Capital Partners in 2012.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement.

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IOC Welcomes Admission As Observer Organisation to UN Climate Change

3BL Media

COP21 in 2015 produced the historic Paris Agreement, while last year’s COP28 brought agreement on the need to phase out the use of fossil fuels. These bring together world leaders, diplomats, scientists, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs), journalists, and various other stakeholders.

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Courts open the door to more climate lawsuits

Corporate Knights

In 2012, the same court decided that the federal government’s decision to leave the Kyoto Protocol was also not a matter for the courts. In the challenges at issue, the court found that the federal government’s commitments under the Paris Agreement provided a sufficient legal anchor. A turning tide?

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Paris 2024: Setting New Standards in Sustainable and Inclusive Sport Events

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Silvio Dulinsky, Deputy Secretary General, ISO : “ISO first developed ISO 20121 as a result of the London 2012 Olympics. Now, with the support of our partners – the IOC and Paris 2024 – we have updated it to include key climate, human rights and legacy considerations, in line with the vision of the Paris Olympics.

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Paris 2024: More Sustainable, More Useful, More Responsible

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Tania Braga IOC Head of Impact and Legacy Delivering more sustainable Games Amongst Paris 2024’s key sustainability commitments is the objective to cut the carbon footprint of the event by 50 per cent compared to the London 2012 and Rio 2016 average, aligning with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We