The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 19 AN APPROACH INTEGRATED INTO THE OVERALL DESIGN, STRATEGY, ORGANISATION AND OPERATIONS The Avoid, Mitigate, Offset (AMO) approach friendly transport. is already widely applied. To minimise its impact, • Mitigate : by accurately identifying the sources Paris 2024 has added two steps – of emissions and integrating low-carbon anticipate emissions and catalyse action solutions into each area. through the attractive force of the Games. • Offset : by focusing on the widest scope, scope • Anticipate : Paris 2024 uses a ground-breaking 3, which includes indirect emissions, to create tool created by and for the Committee a positive impact on the climate. Any impact to estimate the carbon impact of the event that cannot be avoided, such as spectator to steer its choices from the outset and travel, will be offset through environmentally throughout the Games preparation period. and socially beneficial projects. • Avoid : by harnessing a disruptive concept. • Catalyse action lamong individuals and Paris 2024 will use existing or temporary throughout the sporting movement structures to meet 95% of its infrastructure by harnessing sport as a powerful driver needs and has developed a compact and of progress for the environmental transition effective concept to minimise distances (for example: creating and sharing tools to assess, travelled and guarantee the venues are mitigate and offset its impact, and encouraging accessible by public and environmentally people to change their behaviour). RECOGNISING, PROTECTING AND REGENERATING BIODIVERSITY A source of food, energy and materials that is vital the impacts of human activity on biodiversity for human existence, biodiversity is declining is no longer enough on its own – we also need at an unprecedented rate. Over the past 40 years, to take action to regenerate ecosystems. 60% of wild animal populations have Paris 2024 is working towards this goal, both disappeared; today, 1 million animal and plant internally and in collaboration with its entire species are threatened with extinction. Limiting ecosystem. DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE SYSTEMATIC METHOD TO ANALYSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 3 To meet the different challenges, a method on sport and biodiversity . applicable to all venues had to be designed in order to assess the environmental impact An iterative assessment tool was developed so from now up until the post-Games period that the specific considerations of each site as as part of an iterative process of improvement. well as the environmental impact of Games This method was developed in line with the developments and events could be assessed ambitions and methods of the IOC and the over time, from the design phase up until the International Union for Conservation of Nature end of 2024. The tool is illustrated below and (IUCN) in France, as set out in various guides identifies five areas for analysis: 3. “Mitigating biodiversity impacts of sports events” - https://www.iucn.org/content/mitigating-biodiversity-impacts-sports-events “Sports and urban biodiversity” - https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/49127