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Preserving the sites and their environment

For all venues, from more urban settings to more natural venues, Paris 2024 identifies the environmental stakes associated with the event’s organisation. By regularly monitoring each project, particularly in the most sensitive areas, Paris 2024 is working to reduce its impact on local biodiversity and heritage. 

PROPOSING A CONCEPT WITH A STRONGER FOCUS ON SOUND STEWARDSHIP

Since the bid phase, Paris 2024 has embraced its responsibilities by proposing a model for Games that are more responsible, across all aspects of the event’s organisation. The concept behind the project is a major contributing factor: with 95% of the venues using existing sites or temporary facilities, this limits the impacts on the environment and biodiversity.

    Better taking into consideration biodiversity

    Supported by ecologists, Paris 2024 has identified and mapped the environmental stakes for each Games venue, taking into account the animal and plant species present, as well as local pollution, the landscape and heritage aspects.

    Thanks to this approach, specific recommendations were drawn up for designing the venues. Examples include choosing where to position facilities to avoid ecological habitats, marking out certain areas to protect them from being trampled and even reducing the intensity of the lighting systems in place. Then, during all the project’s phases - bump-in, event, bump-out - a dedicated team monitors the application of these recommendations by the various stakeholders.

    LEAVING RENATURED SPACES AS A LEGACY

    Through their scale, the Paris 2024 Games have acted as a catalyst to accelerate major regional projects benefiting their communities: making the Seine swimmable, transforming the Athletes’ Village into a tree-lined ecodistrict, and renaturing Games venues such as Elancourt Hill.

    Looking beyond the Games, Paris 2024 also wants to pave the way for far-reaching changes, by sharing its tools and methods with the events sector:

    • A site analysis method to define the environmental stakes
    • An eco-design guide for Paris 2024’s temporary infrastructures
    • The responsible purchasing strategy (making it possible to avoid impacts on biodiversity “elsewhere”, particularly at sites for sourcing wood, food resources, etc.)