2023-12-18 03:54:00
COP28 ended on a note of hope. For the very first time, the final document mentions the necessary reduction of fossil fuels to limit warming to 1.5 degrees as provided for in the Paris Agreement.
The world of sport and tourism must obviously take its part, starting with the organizers of events, from the smallest to the largest, the Olympic Games or the Football World Cup.
As Belgian researcher François Gemenne, climate expert, pointed out during a day organized by Atout France, an organization promoting tourism in France abroad, “we must say that all human activity has a carbon footprint. “. And “we must ask ourselves, what is worth it, to launch a real reflection on a whole series of sporting events”.
There are many areas for improvement: without touching the biggest events, which unite humanity, maintaining a unity of place and preserving rarity. The idea of organizing a World Cup every two years, attractive on paper (and still), is ecologically absurd. Another measure of common sense, suggested by François Gemenne, competitions must take place in places which do not require facilities designed just for the event. Many countries do not lack stadiums or public transport to easily accommodate the public.
You will always have to convince. Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, was attacked by elected environmentalists, accused of promoting an event “organized during the worst time of the year in terms of heatwave” and which generates air traffic. Shall we stop everything?
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