Experts remain sceptical, especially after organisers dropped a pledge to set a hard limit on its overall carbon cost.
This photograph shows the first full moon of the summer known as the “strawberry” moon rising next to the Olympic rings adorning the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 22, 2024, ahead the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
About one-third of the heat-trapping emissions from the three-week spectacle is expected to come from transport, with millions of athletes, spectators, staff and journalists flying into Paris.Organisers opted mostly for pre-existing or temporary infrastructure to host the event, avoiding the significant environmental cost from carbon-intensive building materials like concrete and steel.
This language was also criticised and amended, and organisers now say the Games will “support climate contribution projects that cut and capture CO2 at levels which match the Games’ emissions that can’t be avoided”. “Carbon credits should be used to support projects that are worth financing, but never to ‘compensate for emissions’,” he said.
France Nature Environnement , a network of advocacy groups, accused Coca-Cola of “unjustified plastic pollution” and attacked plans to pour drinks from recycled plastic bottles into reusable plastic cups as “subterfuge”.
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