The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 101 ACCELERATING THE TRANSFORMATION OF SPORTING EVENTS France holds over 2.5 million sporting events world sporting events. It therefore has the every year and has hosted 55 international ambition, legitimacy and opportunity to make competitions over the past 20 years, making Paris 2024 a new global sustainability benchmark it one of the top countries for hosting major for sporting events. • MAKING THE METHODS DEVELOPED FOR PARIS 2024 ACCESSIBLE TO AND USABLE BY OTHER ORGANISATIONS Reinventing the template for the Games does us to curb greenhouse gas emissions not only involve changing the goods and or purchase responsibly. services needed to organise the competition but also the way in which they are delivered. For instance, Paris 2024’s responsible purchasing Paris 2024 seeks to use the Games’ power strategy – built around the systematic integration to inspire to show that it is possible of environmental and social considerations – to do things differently. We must act together, 25 will be shared widely so that any public which is why we are passing on methods and or private stakeholder can access it and integrate tools today, starting with those that will enable it into its purchasing policy. AN INITIATIVE ACCELERATED AS A RESULT OF THE GAMES PARIS 2024 AND WWF FRANCE ARE COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABLE SPORTING EVENTS In order to leave behind an environmental of sporting events is therefore vital to make legacy, Paris 2024 has teamed up with WWF these events sustainable. France on its programme to support the environmental transition of the world The WWF programme focuses on three key of sport. The work will aim to take concrete areas: action and carry out full-scale trials at sporting events. 1. Supporting the environmental transition of sporting events in France The environmental responsibility of a sporting 2. Raising awareness among spectators and event is in the hands of stakeholders such helping them adopt more environmentally as sporting event organisers, sports facility friendly behaviour managers, local authorities, service providers, athletes and spectators. Uniting 3. Developing active mobility during sporting and engaging the entire ecosystem events 25. Paris 2024’s responsible purchasing strategy was written in accordance with public purchasing principles.