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Five Ways in Which Beijing 2022 Will Become Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Set to stage carbon-neutral Games, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 has published its “ Low-carbon Management Pre-Games Report of the Beijing 2022 Games ”, detailing its carbon management measures. Low-carbon venues, transport, ice cooling and more. IOCMedia [link].

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Snow, Climate Change and the Olympic Winter Games

3BL Media

Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 all relied partially on manufactured snow. While all upcoming Games editions are required to be carbon neutral, from 2030 onwards the IOC will oblige all Games to be “climate positive”. Man-made snow has been used at previous Olympic Winter Games.

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Sustainability Jargon Dictionary

Carlos Sanchez

Real zero – No carbon emissions are being produced from a product or a service, without the use of carbon offsetting e.g. zero-carbon electricity could be provided by a 100% renewable energy supplier. IPCC’s carbon budget for a 66% chance of avoiding 1.5C

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. This could happen to my son any day of the week," she said. "I