8th WORLD CONFERENCE ON SPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT

8th World Conference on Sport and the Environment
International Cooperation and Development Department
Report
groups (Aboriginal, youth at risk, women and new immigrants) are trained for 30 weeks (six
weeks of theoretical teaching and 24 weeks of practical training), where trainees will build about
8,000 Games-time items, including podiums, ramps, and warming huts.
3. Lost & Found Claim Centre: During the 2010 Games, a community group will manage and
operate the Centre. Unclaimed items will become property of the non-profi t organisation, which
will distribute them to the community.
Key message
1. Involving the community
2. Using the purchasing and recruiting powers of the event to generate sustainability outcomes,
such as ethical sourcing and enhancing the social, environmental and economic outcomes of
the Games.
Ms Duffy described the case study of VANOC’s Buy Smart Programme, which includes policies and
procedures, codes of conduct, a steering committee, and audits. She stated that all merchandise
products go through a Licensing Code of Conduct, be they plush toys, pins, etc. This includes a
several-step process:
1. Pre-contract audit
2. The licensees are signed up if successful
3. Annual site audit
4. Tracking and reporting
5. Corrective action plans if defi ciencies are found.
Topic: Smart Transportation and Accommodation
by Ms Ann Duffy,
Corporate Sustainability Offi cer, VANOC
An organising committee must optimise its fl eet size and composition, collaborate with government
on public transport, and communicate with hotels on sustainable accommodation.
Travel Planning: This involves reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, air
pollution, travel time and money.
Green Accommodation: Mention of the Green Key Programme by the Canadian Hotel Association
with various levels of green and social programming.
Green Travel: Options are teletrips, airline offsets, public transportation use, green fl eets.
VANOC’s 2010 Carbon Strategy was also discussed. VANOC’s strategy has been a four-part
process:
1. Know the inventory of emissions and report – where, when, how much?
2. Reduce as many emissions as possible at the source, including through choice of materials,
energy effi cient venues.
3. Be Responsible: Offset direct and indirect emissions that cannot be reduced or eliminated.
4. Align and Activate with Others: Use the 2010 experience to increase awareness of and
participation in climate change solutions, including viewers, athletes, sponsors, etc.
VANOC’s footprint scope includes Direct Emissions (what they control) that are generated by the
staging of the Games, such as venues, villages, operations and transportation, air travel; as well
as the Indirect Emissions that they infl uence, including Games-times air travel.
Key message
1. Choosing smart travel and accommodation infl uences the supply chain and environment;
2. Saves time and money.
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