7th World Conference on Sport and the Environment - International ...

Report
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Forewords..................................................................................................................7
1.1. Message from the President of the International Olympic Committee,
Mr Jacques Rogge ....................................................................................................................7
1.2. Message from the Chairman of the IOC Sport and Environment Commission,
Mr Pál Schmitt............................................................................................................................8
1.3. Message from the President of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games
of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), Mr Qi Liu...............................................................................9
1.4. Message from the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Mr Achim Steiner......................10
2. Programme..............................................................................................................11
3. Declaration of the conference...............................................................................16
4. Presentations..........................................................................................................18
4.1. Opening ceremony...................................................................................................................18
4.1.1. Welcome Speech by the Mayor of Beijing, Mr Qishan Wang....................................................18
4.1.2. Speech by the Chairman of the IOC Sport and Environment Commission,
Mr Pál Schmitt............................................................................................................................19
4.1.3. Speech by the Minister of China State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA),
Mr Shengxian Zhou....................................................................................................................21
4.1.4. Speech by the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr Shafqat Kakakhel.....................................23
4.1.5. Address by the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport
for Development and Peace, UN Under-Secretary-General, Former President
of Switzerland, Mr Adolf Ogi......................................................................................................25
4.1.6. Speech by the BOCOG President, Mr Qi Liu.............................................................................28
4.1.7. Opening Speech by the IOC President, Mr Jacques Rogge......................................................32
4.2. Plenary 1 – Environmental Sustainability in the Olympic Games:
From Concept to Practice.......................................................................................................34
4.2.1. Opening presentation.................................................................................................................34
4.2.2. Olympic Games: Environment, legacy and sustainable development.......................................36
4.2.3. The final TOROC Sustainability report.......................................................................................38
4.2.4. BOCOG: Fulfilling bid commitments..........................................................................................42
4.2.5. VANOC Sustainability Management and Reporting System (SMRS).........................................50
4.2.6. LOCOG: Implementing sustainability.........................................................................................55
4.3. Parallel A – Expertise & best practice from International Federations...............................61
4.3.1. Complementing IOC-UNEP activities by MOUs with IFs and other organisations....................61
4.3.2. Case Study: International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Green Project...............64
4.3.3. Case Study: International Ski Federation (FIS)..........................................................................67
4.3.4. FIFA Green Goal Successes.......................................................................................................71
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