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Climate scorecard for the 2010 Winter Games

3 Feb 2010

CLIMATE SCORECARD FOR THE 2010 WINTER GAMES With environment the official third pillar of the Olympic movement, and climate change a defining issue of our time, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics should be expected to show leadership and deliver a strong message to the world about solutions to climate change and global warming. [...] It is intended to be constructive feedback for the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), the government partners and sponsors involved in the Games, the International Olympic Committee, future Olympic organizing committees and other parties interested in sport and the environment. [...] Public Environment is one of the three pillars of the Olympic movement, and the Engagement Olympic Games are an unparalleled opportunity to reach out to billions of people around the world and inspire them with solutions to climate change. [...] Both athlete villages are part from the day of winning the bid Olympics will leave the region of a pilot project with the Canada until the closing of the Games with innovative, energy-efficient Green Building Council to test (including the Paralympic Games), buildings that will reduce the new LEED Neighbourhood a period of almost seven years community greenhouse gas Development (ND) green instead [...] And about half of the climate impact well after the Games are over because VANOC did not have of the Vancouver Olympics (as and VANOC has been dissolved, any publicly announced overall confirmed by VANOC’s own lending uncertainty to the process emission reduction targets, measurement of the climate for ensuring that the reductions will it is difficult to evaluate their impact of the Games) – the b
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