start of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris, France. For the Olympic Games, the city of Paris expects to welcome 11.3 million visitors, with the majority coming from France.The city is gearing up to host the XXXIII Olympic Summer Games, from 26 July to 11 August. France has changed its story this summer.
Some argue that a global athletic competition of this scale, with hundreds of thousands of visitors, can never hope to align with substantive climate action. Yet Paris has tried to set a new bar, demonstrating commitment to global sustainability while not detracting from the ambition and spectacle of the Games. At the outset, organizers set targets tofrom the event to 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than half compared to the average 3.5 million tonnes from London and Rio.
In our warming world, energy demand for space cooling has increased more than twice as fast as the overall energy demand in buildings over the last decade. According to the International Energy Agency, theIn order to ensure the comfort of its athletes in the Olympic village, insulation and a geothermal system for underfloor cooling has been installed in the new buildings constructed for the Games.