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Report I would also like to mention the work CI has done here in China to provide tools to help BOCOG and it partners, as well as the general public, to understand, monitor and offset their carbon emissions. This is something that our review of the preparations for the Beijing 2008 Games highlights as an area where we feel BOCOG could do more. CONCLUSION In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I will by refer back to the title of my presentation: “Complementing IOC-UNEP Activities by MOUs with International Federations and Other Organisations”. All these examples complement UNEP’s work with the IOC. They strengthen our programme and further entrench environment as a key factor of organising sports events. Over the years we have created a momentum. Now I feel we must accelerate. Yesterday we heard from the IOC President Jacques Rogge. He said, and I quote: “May I appeal to you to set the bar very high and to challenge yourselves with new, innovative and daring proposals!” So, ladies and gentlemen, this is my proposal for you: This is the year that Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to highlight the very real perils of climate change. Let us, here at this conference, make it the year that the IOC says that it, too, will take a strong and substantive stand on climate change. Earlier in my presentation I talked about UNEP’s MoU with VANOC. It is worth noting that VANOC has the stated goal of staging a carbon-neutral Games. My feeling is that the whole area of addressing climate change by individual and collective actions is a growing movement that we have to embrace, just as VANOC has done. Let us ask that, from now on, all Olympic City bids must demonstrate that they can host a carbon neutral Olympics, and that they will have to meet that commitment once they have won the bid. Let us make this the legacy of this conference as we consider the Beijing Declaration that we will publish tomorrow. Thank you. <strong>7th</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on Sport and the Environment International Cooperation and Development Dept. Page 63/256
Report 4.3.2. Case Study: International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Green Project Fekrou Kidane, IAAF consultant If there is one subject which holds no secrets for anyone, it is sport. Whether traditional games or modern sports, team or individual, they have always been associated with nature and an ideal environment. According to Dr George Tohme, “physical effort must be followed by a time of rest and muscle relaxation, intellectual work by sleep for the mind. The time of rest must naturally not be turned into time when we get tired doing nothing. We must know how to go for a walk, sleep under a tree, dream on the grass, practise sport, go fishing, breathe in the smell of the sea, sniff that of damp earth, or contemplate the sunrise or sunset”. In times past, human beings had only nature as their partner for practising sport or their favourite game. Swimming in lakes and rivers, running or walking through the fields and galloping on horseback were their distractions. Today, cycling, mountain climbing, trekking, diving, surfing or jogging bring us into contact with nature in a different way. It is obvious that sports like athletics, in particular cross-country running, golf or equestrian sports, are more closely linked to nature than others. On the island of Tuvalu, for example, the only ground available was used to land propeller planes, and for football and rugby matches. The lack of equipment and material at the time did not prevent some people from practising athletics on the same piece of ground, making hurdles out of bamboo or using coconuts as discuses or shots. The essential point is nonetheless that human beings become sportspeople, and aspire to live in peace in an unpolluted world, protect fauna and forests, rivers and lakes, plants and animals for their own well-being, and preserve the natural world which is a source of joy as well as food and drink. For the man who created the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, nature was also important. “In the beautiful pine forest that scales Mount Kronion, we can easily imagine the long avenues of plane trees along which the athletes and pilgrims once came”. Unfortunately, the fires which ravaged Olympia recently did not spare the plane trees. It would be good if the Olympic Movement could lend its assistance to the replanting of Olympia, so that pines and plane trees might once again grow in memory of Pierre de Coubertin. After the United Nations <strong>Conference</strong> on Environment and Development wildly known as the “Earth Summit” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 3-14 June 1992; the IAAF along with the other International Federations and participants, signed the “Earth Pledge” (which is a commitment to protect the earth and find ways to halt the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources and pollution of the planet) the same year in Barcelona on the occasion of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, in the framework of an initiative undertaken by the International Olympic Committee. Since then the IAAF continued participating in the global effort of the Olympic Movement in the protection of the environment. Helsinki’s ECOMASS It was in 2005, on the occasion of the 10th IAAF <strong>World</strong> Championships in Athletics held in Helsinki, Finland, that the Federation was directly involved in an ecological study related to athletics. The project entitled ECOMASS which stands for Eco-Efficient Mass Event Manual, a management strategy that links financial and environment performance, in order to create more value with less ecological impact. In practice, it translates the efforts in reducing material and energy consumption, logistics optimization, promoting the use of low-emission vehicles and the use of public transport; and compensating the remaining CO 2 -emissions. The ECOMASS project in Helsinki dealt, therefore with managing the environmental impact of athletics (athletes and IAAF), education and procurement, sustainable tourism, waste management and catering services, water and energy use/management, CO 2 -emissions calculation, verification and evaluation of the process and indication to best practices and future applications. The ECOMASS project was undertaken by the Helsinki University of technology under the leadership of Ms. Salla Koivusal. The Eco-Efficient Mass Event Manual was presented at the 14th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in New York in May 2006. The UNCSD is the UN high-level forum for sustainable development issues established by the UN General Assembly to ensure effective follow-up to the United Nations <strong>Conference</strong> on Environment and Development. That session focused on progress made in the areas of Energy for Sustainable Development; Industrial Development; Air pollution/Atmosphere; and Climate Change. <strong>7th</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on Sport and the Environment International Cooperation and Development Dept. Page 64/256
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