The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 7 AMBITIONS SET OUT AT THE BIDDING PHASE THE LEGACY AND SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY From the bidding phase, Paris 2024 positioned legacy and sustainability at the heart of its project and implemented its first tangible initiatives that continue to frame its strategy to this day. These include: • The Paris 2024 Social Charter, signed with trade unions and employer organisations in 2017 to agree the ways in which Paris 2024 would set a benchmark in terms of social relations and monitor their implementation. • Aligning Paris 2024 with the Paris Agreement, by halving greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting any residual emissions to achieve carbon neutrality. • The Olympic and Paralympic Week (OPW), first organised in 2017 in collaboration with the French Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sport and numerous other groups involved in the sporting movement, in particular school sports federations, to design an annual event that shines a spotlight on the importance of physical education (PE), physical activity and sport for young people, from pre-school to post grad. Many other initiatives implemented during the bidding phase laid the foundations for the Legacy and Sustainability strategy, developed in particular with: • Professor Muhammad Yunus and his teams to champion the position of the Social and Solidarity Economy in organising the Games. • The NGO PLAY International to promote Olympic and Paralympic values and sports participation among young people in France and around the world. • WWF France, which worked with the Bidding Committee to define the Environmental Excellence strategy for the Games. The Legacy and Sustainability strategy – including the way in which it was designed and is being implemented – has been a truly collective experience. It seeks to promote and take advantage of what makes the Games unique, from people’s efforts to achieve a shared objective to the event’s capacity to bring people together and shine a spotlight on outstanding initiatives. Two years of collaboration with our internal and external stakeholders went into the Legacy and Sustainability strategy, which provides the framework for all stakeholders committed to building the legacy of the Paris 2024 Games.