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What are some specific examples of sustainability in action at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement as a whole?
Looking at past Olympic Games, London 2012 drove the development of the Event Sustainability Management Systems standard, ISO 20121:2012. The standard has since become widely used across the industry, and the IOC has made it a requirement for all editions of the Olympic Games.
Some of the long-term benefits from past Olympic Games remain invisible to the eyes of the general public. For example, climate benefits from innovative projects implemented in Russia and Latin America by Dow, as the Carbon Partner of Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016, are still providing carbon reductions that have well exceeded the Organising Committees’ carbon footprints.
We have also developed a standardised methodology for carbon foot-printing to help the Organising Committees calculate the carbon footprint of their editions of the Olympic Games earlier and more efficiently, in order to achieve significant carbon emission reductions.
We have partnered with some of the best sustainability experts to make sure that the Olympic Movement – International Sports Federations, National Olympic Committees and the Organising Committees of the Olympic Games – receive the latest knowledge and guidance on sustainability issues.
We have a long-standing relationship with the United Nations Environment Programme and have recently joined its Clean Seas campaign to raise awareness on the issue of marine litter. We have so far secured active participation in the campaign from nine International Federations, three of our commercial partners (TOPs), a number of National Olympic Committees, and Ichinomiya town in Japan, which will host surfing competitions during the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. We are building on this momentum.
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