Paris 2024 aids sustainability drive with WWF partnership

Paris 2024 has entered into a strategic partnership with the French division of the World Wide Fund for Nature which aims to boost the sustainability goals of its bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The partnership will include the creation of a Committee for Environmental Excellence composed of 24 individuals including scientists, members of non-governmental organisations, athletes and entrepreneurs.

Paris 2024 and WWF France said they will seek to make the Games a laboratory for innovations that will help reinvent tomorrow’s cities – particularly via the Olympic and Paralympic Village.

Paris 2024 co-chairman Tony Estanguet (pictured) said: “Sustainable development is, since the beginning of our commitment, at the heart of our project. It is not a goal, it is the very DNA of the application that we are building with the athletes, under consultation with the French people, and all of our partners.

“We aim to offer a Games that positively change the lives of the French. By making it possible, for example, to swim in the Seine for the coming decades, the Games will fully play its role as an accelerator of progress.”

Paris is facing competition from Budapest, Los Angeles and Rome to host the 2024 Games. The election of the host city will take place in September 2017 at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Lima, Peru.