Paris 2024: Will it be most sustainable Olympic Games ever? - BBC Sport
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Paris 2024 promises to halve the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016. How will it happen and what challenges must be tackled?
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'Climate change is an extremely serious threat' - IOC President Bach
The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016.
London 2012 had an estimated carbon footprint of 3.3m tonnes, while Rio 2016 had a total estimated footprint of 3.6m tonnes of carbon.
The 2024 Games will be held in the same city where world leaders met in 2015 to sign a number of commitments to prevent global temperatures rising by more than 1.5C and there will be lots of attention on sustainability efforts.
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