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Paris Olympics fail to fulfil green promise

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Published: April 15th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

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Construction site of the Eiffel Tower Stadium, where the beach volleyball and men’s blind soccer competitions will be held this summer. A quarter of the venues will be dismantled after the games.

The organizers only have a sustainable strategy for avoiding or measuring around a third of the expected carbon emissions from the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, according to a study by the NGO Carbon Market Watch and Éclaircies. The Paris Organizing Committee is no longer making misleading climate neutrality claims, as was the case at the beginning of the planning phase. However, more comprehensive and fundamental measures are needed to put the Olympic Games on a 1.5-degree pathway, the authors write.

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