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Going for green!
While gold has always been the color of victory at the Olympics, some of the success of this year’s Games will be determined by another shade.
The 2024 Olympics in Paris is going green. Organizers will attempt to make it the first carbon-neutral Olympics in modern history by offsetting more emissions than the Games create to limit its impact on the climate.
The goal is to cut the carbon footprint of the Olympics in half compared to previous editions. The last three Games producing an average of 3.5 million tons of CO2, which is more than the annual emissions of India and Germany combined.
To do so, the Paris Olympics is using the standard ARO approach — avoid, reduce, offset — but adding in additional phases of forecasting emissions to gauge its carbon footprint and then mobilizing action to help those who follow the Games reduce their personal and professional carbon footprint.
Achieving …
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